Larry Bowden has over two decades of experience at IBM helping customers exploit the opportunities provided by information technologies. He currently is vice president, portals and Web interaction services, where he is responsible for the development and delivery of portal-based products and solutions to meet customer needs. He is based in the Silicon Valley.
Social networking – not a new idea for the twenty-something generation
– but an idea that has finally crossed over into the corporate
boardroom thanks to customer demand and open standards technologies built on
service-oriented architectures (SOA).
With 20% of employees at large companies now contributing to blogs, social
networks, Wikis, and other Web 2.0 services (according to IDC in a survey of
197 workers), the trend is no surprise, with companies finding ways to
capitalize on this activity with their own in-house social networks.
Such activities have grown, in part, due to an awareness of the competitive
advantages organizations can gain by incorporating more interactive and
context-aware collaboration capabilities. These capabilities have originated
fr... (more)
Larry Bowden has over two decades of experience at IBM helping customers exploit the opportunities provided by information technologies. He currently is vice president, portals and Web interaction services, where he is responsible for the development and delivery of portal-based products and solutions to meet customer needs. He is based in the Silicon Valley.
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