I just previewed the slides Liam Cleaver of IBM is presenting at the upcoming Intranet Insider World Tour Webinar: IBM’s w3 – Transforming The Total Workplace Experience.
“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 are some of the Web 2.0 areas that Liam, along with moderator, Toby Ward of Prescient Digital Media, will be showing and telling about:
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.
The last slides includes this juicy quote from Clint Boulton, eWeek.
“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.
