I stumbled upon this video about some of the things IBM is working on in their R&D department, an interesting mix of ideas. I regret that I have not been working on these projects but here is a short list of my interest areas: Value of Software for business Social software, design, deployment, adoption and [...]

Collaboration in a virtual world

While trying to decide whether to start up a corporate blogging service for New Zealand based businesses I stumbled upon LiveWorld’s solutions.

“Community Center 2.0 is LiveWorld’s enterprise-scale social network and community platform. It brings together community applications, management tools and systems infrastructure to deliver the best mix of user features, administration, management, reporting and scalability—all flexible enough to tailor to your community requirements. Community Center offers the strongest loyalty marketing, support community and engagement network solution on the market.”

Sounds like a load of the usual marketing guff but the list of customers is impressive and the interview with the CEO below sparks interest. The CEO talks about Generation C for Community connected those born after 1978….interesting but it isn’t really inclusive enough. The new generation is the Opt-In generation. This is where members of all the generations choose to use the latest tools and methods to communicate and interact. While the usage of these new tools is driven by the younger generations the number of “older” folk using the tools is also growing.