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 Intranet Insider World Tour Webinar: IBM's w3 - Transforming The Total Workplace Experience or register or purchase the CD here). 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 Intranet Insider World Tour Webinar: IBM's w3 - Transforming The Total Workplace Experience

 

 

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