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I.B.M. to Introduce Workers' Networking Software

By LAURIE J. FLYNN

And you thought social networking was all about textmessaging

among bored teenagers.

I.B.M. has another take on it. Today the company plans

to announce a set of social software tools that will bring the kind

of blogging, idea sharing and war-story swapping typically

associated with MySpace and Facebook, the social networking

sites popular among teenagers and college students, to the

corporate world.

Called Lotus Connections, the new software, expected

later this year, will let employees set up virtual worlds in which

they can meet like-minded colleagues within the company and

exchange ideas with them, all in the name of improving

productivity. And that's just for starters.

The idea, said I.B.M.'s vice president for social software,

Jeff Schick, is to unlock the latent expertise in an organization.

Lotus Connections has five components − activities,

communities, dogear (a bookmarking system), profiles and blogs

− aimed at helping experts within a company connect and build

new relationships based on their individual needs. The profiles

component, for example, lets users search for people by name,

expertise or keyword. The program then not only provides

contact information and reporting structure details, but also lists

blogs, communities, activities and bookmarks associated with

the person.

Inside I.B.M., employees have been using a prototype of

the profiles feature KK

56 and today 450,000 profiles of I.B.M.

employees are stored there.

(Adapted from The New York Times, January 22, 2007)

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