By Wired have a great article on the British Army’s use of social media, including what it’s got right and what it’s got wrong http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-03/20/military-social-media but perhaps the most surprising revelation is that they are using it for a variety of purposes including Recruitment Community building for friends and family’s of service men and woman Hearts [...]
I’m going to steal Alans thunder. Here is a link that he posted in LinkedIn http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/8697-quietly-ibm-becomes-the-enterprise-facebook?utm_medium=feeds&utm_source=blog. IBM are in Social Software for Business in a big way. Why is business concerned about social software? The key phrase in the article is, IBM is looking to put its investments in data mining and analytics to use [...]
By Many loyal Lotus Notes and Domino customers are probably aware that they have a free entitlement to use the instant messaging features of Sametime and the personal file sharing features of Quickr with their Domino Enterprise CAL. Recently announced, however, with the release of the 8.5.3 version of Notes and Domino, is the entitlement to [...]
LoLA is a small conference attended by a large number of IBM Lotus execs. They mix freely with the folks at the conference in a way you wouldn’t see at Lotusphere or another much larger event. Access to the execs is available in 1:1 settings and whilst here I took advantage of that to ask [...]
Day 2 at LoLA was a bit more business-as-usual. The day started with a 7am Business Partners-only breakfast where Sandy Carter introduced us to Mike Garbett who is the new worldwide head of software business partners. The best bit about the breakfast (apart from the food) was some very engaging conversations with the other BPs [...]
IBM Leadership Alliance Conference – Special Guest
By Stuart Macdonald in General on 13 September
Our very own Alan Hamilton has been invited along to IBM’s Leadership Alliance Conference in Cambridge, MA in October to participate in round table discussions to shape the development of IBM’s market leading software products. We’re all proud of some of the great work Alan has been doing recently to develop our Software Business and [...]
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Our man in Florida is Alan Hamilton at the IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference 2011. Seric were invited to be one of IBM’s 20 key partners worldwide in this area, assisting IBM in developing and shaping the technology to come. Alan is out making Connections and extolling the virtues of employing particular technologies to help [...]
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Remember when the internet was about sharing knowledge? Remember when you could type a question into a search engine and find some meaningful information, as opposed to someone trying to sell you something? It really annoys me that the top results you get back from search engines are from those paying the most money and [...]
Every year IBM make 5 predictions of 5 technologies that will change our lives in the next 5 years. http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibm_predictions_for_future/overview/index.html. It’s always a good read and my favorite prediction this year is the 3-D hologram webcam. I can’t wait to get the mrs dressed up as princess Leia and to have her repeat “help me Obi Wan Kenobi” [...]
Having spent some time at LCTY2010 in Edinburgh…
By Stuart Macdonald in General on 21 April
At times reduced to a Barcode… I may still just agree that Lotus Knows… At the event there were some great speakers, for me the Highlights being (I've retitled) Stuart McRae a Collaboration Evangelist – Connections plus with special sauce John Schumacher a Director of Development at Lotus – It's the ROI stupid and Eliza [...]
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