IBM Lotus® Connections is social software for business that empowers you to be more innovative and helps you execute more quickly by using dynamic networks of coworkers, partners and customers.

Profiles - Find the people you need.

Profiles are the part of Lotus Connections that help you discover the right people, at the right time. You can find people – search for people -- based on things like the person’s name, their organization, location, reporting structure and interests.An integrated directory and expertise location engine, Lotus Connections profiles help you identify and work with key people who have specific knowledge or strategic business relationships. Profiles let you tap into the knowledge capital within your organization, and makes it easy to establish new business contacts. Profiles help you expand your personal network and Profiles help you develop and maintain personal relationships that span obstacles like reporting structure, industry sector and geography. Profiles typically include a person's photo, reporting structure, name, pronunciation, the time zone the person works in, and information about the individual's expertise and areas of interest.

Communities - Work with people who share common interests and expertise.

Communities allows groups of people who share a common interest to collaborate with one another by exchanging and sharing information or interacting with one another via IBM Lotus Sametime, and email. And a Community can take advantage of all the other parts of Lotus Connections in the same way that an individual user can -- for example, Communities can be discovered the same way people are discovered. And communities can have their own bookmarks (discoverable via Dogear), and a community can have its Activities.

Blogs - Present your own ideas, and learn from others.

Blogs help you connect with people - within and outside your enterprise. They help you build communities of shared interest. They give each person in the enterprise a voice.
Because blogging is as natural as writing an email to a group, one can share his thoughts and solicit feedback without worrying about filling up everyone’s inbox. Blogs help you communicate with your peers or colleagues and nourish innovation.

Dogear - Save and share bookmarks.

Save, organize and share bookmarks; discover bookmarks that have been qualified by others with similar interests & expertise.

Dogear gives people a better way to manage their own bookmarks as well as share, subscribe and search the community’s bookmarks. Dogear makes it easier than ever before to share information and accelerate innovation. With Dogear, you can discover where people get their information. You go straight to information that a member of your community has already vetted and found appropriate and useful. You can discover information using search-and-pivot browsing: start by navigating by tags or links or people, and, when you find someone who looks interesting, pivot to go to their Profile or their bookmarks. Dogear is a whole new way of connecting people and amplifying the power of working together.

Activities - Organize your work and tap your professional network.

Activities is designed to help you organize the information and the people you need, so you can effectively execute on assignments.

Activities make it easy to
• track your work with a dashboard
• invite and share your tasks with others
• manage to-dos that you and your team have
• discover and share best practices by creating activity templates

With Activities in Lotus Connections, you execute. Faster. You get higher-quality results. And preserve best practice for future reuse.



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