IBM Lotus Connections

IBM Lotus Connections

IBM Lotus Connections is so-called 'social software', specially designed for professional purposes.

Thanks to Lotus Connections, you can use the full potential of your organization and create relationships between your employees.

Lotus Connections delivers these capacities in the following integrated components:

	Profiles
	A directory of profiles of your employees. Your employees enter their competences, which makes it easier to find someone from your own company for a specific competence.
	Communities
	Let people with shared responsibilities or common area of expertise find each other and work together.
	Blogs
	Allow certain specialists to post their ideas on a blog, receive feedback and learn from other people's experiences.
	Dogear
	Social bookmarking is a component that allows sharing bookmarks, in other words, certain links that some colleagues found interesting, can be discovered by others.
	Activities
	Provides you with one single location to view, manage and edit all information (documents, instant messages, e-mails) related to perform a specific task with your team.

The Home Page provides you with an integrated, adaptable drag & drop screen, where widgets help you gain access to these five Lotus Connections services. You can always view your latest updates in your profiles, communities, blogs, dogears or activities, directly on your personally composed home page.

Every component is accessible through a web browser or other access modes such as IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Lotus Sametime, IBM Websphere Portal and Microsoft Office.