IBM Lotus Connections
IBM Lotus® Connections is social software for business that empowers you to be more innovative and helps you execute more quickly by using dynamic networks of co-workers, partners and customers.
Lotus Connections features
Home page
See what's happening across your social network.
Profiles
Find the people you need and store tags for your interests and expertise. You can share personal profiles – know who people are, what they do, where they are, what interests them, what they know.
Communities
Work with people who share common interests and expertise. Communities provide online forum/discussion boards, shared bookmarks and news feeds and incorporates Instant Messaging through the integration with Sametime. You can find and join communities of interest, where you can find people profiles, join in forums of interest, see what that community is up to, blog about what's going on, and comment on other peoples' blogs.
Blogs
Present your own ideas, and learn from others.
Dogear
Save and share bookmarks.
Activities
Organise your work and tap your professional network.
Benefits
When people in your organisation use Lotus Connections to connect to other employees, partners and customers, you can realise the following professional and business benefits:
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Tasks are executed faster because you have quick access to information from an expanded professional network
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Decisions are made with confidence knowing they were vetted by experts in your organization and reflect past experience
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Relationships are created with colleagues around the world
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Innovative products and services can be created from communities of employees, partners, and customers – driving growth for your business
Lotus Connections software can help:-
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An executive by enabling their entire organisation to discover their collective expertise and deliver more results
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An IT Manager to deliver innovative Web 2.0-based solutions for their company, along with the peace of mind and security, features that business requires
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A Notes user become more productive and innovative.Connections is particularly well-suited for, and integrated with, IBM Lotus Notes
You can also expect:
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That new ideas and activities will be generated, that otherwise would not have happened
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That your information and ideas are secure, with no unauthorised access and no anonymous access, and no data left behind on the computers used
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To be able to use the facilities from your existing applications – Office, Notes, your browser, or Windows Explorer
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That information will be more accurate, being owned by a small, tight community
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To save on email, and reduce the amount of vital information locked in personal email files
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Significant improvements in employee togetherness through social togetherness and ease of collaboration and personal discovery; that will lead to morale uplift, which in itself generates energy and buzz to do well and succeed.
Link to IBM Connections home page
