Thursday, June 12 (2pm EDT)

World
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I've had the pleasure to work on or help create dozens of intranets in the
past few years, and seen and learned about many dozens of others. I can say
with some confidence that IBM has the best intranet in the world. Some like
Cisco and Microsoft come close, but not close enough (although the latter
two are still fairly secretive about all the workings of their respective
intranets, and IBM is quick to show it all).



Two years ago, Intranet Insider World Tour made a stop at IBM's w3. That was
before Web 2.0 tools started changing the way organizations communicate and
collaborate. Now see the new Web 2.0 IBM intranet with 30,000 bloggers,
podcasts (audio & video), wikis, and Beehive, an internal version of
Facebook. This highly informative webinar with a look at the IBM intranet
and its tools is hosted by myself and Liam Cleaver, Program Director,
Collaborative Innovation at IBM.





IBM's employee social networking site (alla Facebook), Beehive



This insider's look at the IBM intranet is this Thursday, June 12 (see
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Intranet Insider World Tour Webinar: IBM's w3 - Transforming The Total
Workplace Experience or register or purchase the CD
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This is a must attend for any intranet manager or consultant.



"We see the future workplace as ubiquitous; totally integrated; and senses
work activity and responds with resources," says Cleaver. The goal of the
IBM intranet is to increase productivity, collaboration and innovation of
its 380,000 employees worldwide, 45% of whom work remotely in all global
time zones.



Here is a sneak preview:



* Blue Pages: One universal employee directory, 50+ applications
access & use the directory data, More than 1.5 million hits per day, 65% of
employees use BluePages once a day.

* Beehive: Opt-in social networking site from IBM Research, Create a
personal page to share interests, thoughts, photos and/or what you do in
IBM, over 33,000+ registered members and 41,000+ photos uploaded

* Fringe: Experimental directory and networking site from IBM
Research, Find colleagues based on skills, interests or other shared
connections,
see what's going on with the news in your social network through aggregated
feeds

* BlogCentral: Opens up collaboration and creates connections across
IBM through use of Web 2.0 technologies, 50,000+ users, 1,600+ active blogs

* WikiCentral: Provides easy and effective ways of collaboration in
any size group. In April 2008, 3M+ page views, 1.3M+ total visitors

* Jams and ThinkPlace: Open, collaborative and on-going global forum,
surfaces solutions to specific challenges, 16,000 ideas submitted since
launch, 350+ ideas adopted, facilitates exchange of smaller ideas

* TAP @ work: SmallBlue: within intranet search retrieves experts
based on tags and employee profiles recommending best path to connect, gives
analysis of social network visually depicts people networks and geographic
clusters.

"Google is often portrayed as the technology hipster, rolling out Web
applications almost at whim. But unseen to the public, IBM is rolling out
Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, mashups and virtual reality
technologies to help its employees be more productive. Inside its firewall,
Big Blue looks pretty hip." Clint Boulton, eWeek.



Register now for the
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Intranet Insider World Tour Webinar: IBM's w3 - Transforming The Total
Workplace Experience


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Cheers,


Toby Ward, President, Prescient Digital Media

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416.986.2226



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