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Lost my IBM badge this morning at a customer. I don’t want to imagine the process involved in issuing a new badge. Gave the security girl my business card, just in case some gentle soul finds my badge. There’s an advantage/disadvantage to this:
The advantage:
I can put a new picture ! The current one is 7 years old.. I’m looking much better now 🙂
The disadvantage:
Hope I won’t ran into a dude at a dark alley (click for a better resolution)..
Dina Ben-Elissar, a friend and colleague, past away over the weekend.
Dina was Team Leader at the Hebrew Translation Center, IBM Software Group, a 25 year IBM veteran. I’ve been working briefly with Dina for the past 3 years, but since joining Software Group mid 2007, Dina and I worked closer, particularly around the migration and translation to Hebrew of the various Lotus and WebSphere Portal solutions. Dina’s passion and dedication to the ‘holy’ work of translation were a shining light and I will cherish her work ethics where ever I go.
Dina, it has been my pleasure and a privilege working with you.
יהי זכרך ברוך
The official press release is here.
Where do I sign up for a job @ Digg ?
Digg Dubb: Groove Is In The Heart from Trammell on Vimeo
from Lior.
My colleague and fellow blogger Luis Suarez is at the heart of this Forbes.com article, IBM’s Webbie World. The article discusses on IBM’s social software adoption – how blogs, wikis, social bookmarking and community networks can improve business processes and even create new products or solutions.
In some ways, IBM’s employees are already out-Webbing even Web-based companies like Google and Facebook. IBM’s spokespeople claim it has 24,000 Facebook users and 155,000 LinkedIn users, giving it one of the biggest corporate representations on both sites.
Luis discusses his much conversed project, saying the next generation worker is looking for quicker communication tools:
… these (collaboration tools) are the ways young employees will communicate in just a few years. “There’s a next-generation of worker, and for them, e-mail is what they use to contact their grandparents,” Suarez says. “They want tools that are more instant and collaborative.”
Karen Wohl, of Wohl Associates discusses the benefits of enterprise social software, such as Lotus Connections:
A large corporation might choose to use Lotus Connections instead of Facebook and Blogger, for instance, because IBM’s software can be hosted within the company’s own firewall, safe from data breaches or subpoenas.
Deutsche Bank and the Federal Aviation Administration are only 2 examples of companies that adopted social software solutions from IBM.
