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Taylor Swift has a new love in her life, but it's not a boy this time...
The songstress shared an adorable photo of a tiny kitten -- presumably the newest member of her family -- on Instagram on Wednesday (June 18). "Meet Olivia Benson," the singer writes, showing off a white cat with sapphire eyes.
If the name sounds familiar, it's because Benson is a character on Swift's favorite television show, 'Law & Order: SVU.' The star has shared her love of the show before. "I watch so much TV. So much," she says. "Usually it's crime stuff, like 'CSI,' 'Without a Trace,' 'Law and Order: SVU' — those are my favorites."
Swift even told Teen Vogue that if she could have dinner with anyone from a movie, TV show, or book, it would be "detective Olivia Benson from 'Law & Order SVU.'" She added, "I sit in my apartment and watch hours of that show. So I sort of feel like me and Olivia are BFFs."
Now, Swift can have dinner with Benson, and while she chows down on people food, her sweet kitten can scarf down some kibbles. Maybe they'll even watch 'Law & Order: SVU' together!
The 'Red' hitmaker has another furry family member, cat Meredith, whom she welcomed home in 2011. Swifties know the soft gray feline almost as well as they know the singer -- after all, Meredith appeared in Swift's ACM video and was even named one of the 100 best things in pop culture. Clearly, Benson has big shoes to fill, but from the picture, it looks like she already has the singer wrapped around her little paw.


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Sunday, September 19, 2010
Meeting People Is Easy
If I had to name one sweet that I could eat for comfort it would have to be coconut macaroons.
I have trouble stopping. And you can't exactly make just 3 or 4...
I brought these over for dinner at a friend's house.
The friend in question has done something marvelous for the food blogging community - he has put together a site called TheFood. Because of it, I have met many wonderful food bloggers. Read so many great stories about food that make me smile daily. Been inspired by many beautiful pictures. Thanks to you Marc-André, meeting people is easy.
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- One of Ottawa's Real Foodies said...
Coconut should be a food group. Coconut macaroons are so my favourite. I will second how wonderful Marc-André is for doing TheFood.
- September 19, 2010 at 11:33 AM
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- September 19, 2010 at 3:04 PM
- Marysol said...
Dar, if you get this message, could you email me? I did not see a contact on your blog...
- September 19, 2010 at 8:58 PM
- pamela_g said...
do you have the macaroon recipe? i'm dying to try it!
- September 20, 2010 at 10:05 AM
- {lovely little things} said...
I love macaroons!
- September 24, 2010 at 9:00 AM
- Marc-André said...
And they were delicious :) Thanks a lot for them and the kind words (same to Anne!).
- October 6, 2010 at 2:43 PM
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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 2:10 pm
Post subject: Is windsurfing a risk for someone with retinoschisis?
I just got diagnosed with acquired retinoschisis at the age of 51.
This is a disorder in which the layers of the retina split apart. The retina is the part of the eye that is stimulated by light and then sends a signal through the optic nerve to the brain. There are many neural layers to the retina and as people age the layers can split apart. This affects about 5% of the population, is usually harmless, and doesnt affect vision since it typically occurs at the edge of the retina, an area that is not important in vision. Mine was found during a routine eye examination.
Retinoschisis is not the same as a retinal detachment. A retinal detachment involves all layers of the retina separating from the back of the eye and is often more visually threatening than retinoschisis.
I saw a retina specialist and he said there is nothing I need to do, but that I should avoid sports where like boxing or ones involving lots of bouncing, like motocross, to keep the split in my retina from extending into an area where it can affect vision. I asked him about windsurfing and he wasnt too helpful. I did internet research and found nothing much. I looked up other bouncing sports like skiing, motocross, and mountain biking without success. A lot of the advice to avoid contact sports seems to relate more to congenital retinoschisis and not acquired retinoschisis. It seems to me that a congenital form would have different risks because the person was born with a retina that is weaker and prone to split.
So Im wondering if any of you have any experience with this issue. Im wondering if I need to change my style of windsurfing. I live on Maui and primarily sail waves and bump and jump. I have always enjoyed high jumps and also do forward loops. Do I need to stop the jumps? How about the loops?
thanks for any advice.
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I hope Gronk sees this. He could advise. He's an ophthalmologist and hardcore wave sailor.
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Retinal detachments may be treated by laser spot-welding, at least if not too bad a situation. I had it done two years ago for one eye, maybe 15 short "zaps", and all is fine as of exam this month.
Did you discuss potential for that process in your case - maybe to weld the layers back together or minimize further separation?
I windsurf a lot in SF Bay, all B&J though. Good Luck and hope you get more definitive advice.
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Thanks Bard, for the distinction between the Gronk vs wimpy eye doc. I much prefer the alter ego. (I thought as an eye doc I could ws all the time, instead I just battle insurance companies, obamacare, and the new gen of employees..)
Anyhow, I'll pm this question but in a nutshell, RD/RT (detachments and tears of the retina) are usually well addressed by a skilled retina specialist with laser, cryo, or scleral buckles with a gas bubble, or a combination of the aforementioned. These essentially are a acute and urgent 'mechanical' retinal emergencies/urgencies.
Retinoschisis is an acquired X-linked hereditary dystrophy. Hence it is much less 'mechanical' in nature. Unfortunately, no definitive treatments. In this aspect, it saddens me, for anyone. But, FORTUNATELY, no restrictions to physical activities at all. If the patient were a boxer or soccer player with frequent head blows, I would defer the question to a retina specialist. But in all of my training and 17 years of practice, retinoschisis will essentially proceed in it's normal course, depending upon the individual...I will ask my fellow retina MD to confirm, but this is where I would stand right now, in the exam room, with 99.9% conviction...essentially more of a degenerative condition, not acute or traumatic. No treatments, but no restrictions to physical activities: so GO SHRED THE SHIT OUT OF EVERY SESSION YOU GET AND ENJOY IT.
The Gronk
ps. I just found a retinal detachment on a young father of two: professional surfer, never had his eyes checked, got it from bouncing off the reef 10 YEARS AGO, asymptomatic. He was about to go blind. He went into the surgery room the next day. .. and he is still a proud, functional father of two beautiful children, running his own business, and his wife is happy. He came to the office b/c I told his wife to tell him to have his eyes checked..first exam ever. ...I guess that takes away all of my insurance/obamacare headaches.
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If I weren't 80 miles from your office, I'd be there once a year, and wouldn't book an appointment when Jalama was going off!!! Aloha.
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He was about to go blind. He went into the surgery room the next day. .. and he is still a proud, functional father of two beautiful children, and his wife is happy.
Are we still talking about eyes?
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thanks so much to all who have written, especially Gronk the eye doctor. I'm curious to hear what your retina specialist friend will say.
obviously GREAT news that you feel I can still sail hard!!!!!
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With cotton prices lower than a snake's belly, and a potentially large Mid-South crop in the making, there's one small bit of good news: cotton classing fees won't increase this year.
"The fee will remain at $1.35 per bale," Larry Creed, manager of the Dumas, Ark. USDA Cotton Classing Office told members of the Mississippi Cotton Ginners Association at their summer meeting at Clarksdale, Miss.
For gins or warehouses that use consolidated billing, the fee will remain at $1.30.
"We appear to have a good crop shaping up over most of the Mid-South," Creed said, "so we're expecting a large volume of samples coming through our facility."
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An addition to the software last year allows the HVI system to compare a particular sample to those processed immediately before and after, Creed said.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Austin Zimmerman became the fourth player from the MIT women's volleyball team to be selected as the NEWMAC Player of the Week. She helped lead the Engineers (27-7, 9-0 NEWMAC) to a 2-0 week and the No. 1 seed in this week'sconference tournament.
In last Tuesday's 30-19, 30-13, 30-19 win over Smith College, Zimmerman distributed 36 assists which resulted in a team hitting percentage of .248. She also tallied eight digs, two aces, one solo and one assisted block. Against the U.S. Coast Guard Academy on Saturday, she dished out 45 assists and collected a season-high 20 digs in addition to one solo and one assisted block. For the week, Zimmerman averaged 11.57 assists per game, 4.0 digs per game, .86 kills per game, and .57 blocks per game.


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Author Notes: Hot cocoa is all well and good. A mug is a great way to satisfy your after-dinner chocolate cravings. And cupping the warm mug between your hands after playing in the snow or shoveling the driveway is simply heavenly.
The chocolate must be chopped or shaved into small pieces in order for this method to work. Otherwise, you'll end up with chunks of unmelted chocolate in the bottom of your mug. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but not quite what we're going for here.
This recipe was a part of Hot Chocolate Week on my blog, Savvy Eats, in February 2011. More posts from the week can be found here: http://www.savvyeat.com/tag/hot-chocolate/ —SavvyJulie
Food52 Review: Drinking chocolate this is not. More like drink-up-able. Whole milk, unsweetened cocoa powder and luscious dark chocolate (the best you have - you'll only be using 1 ounce) liquefy together over low heat - a whole new kind of holy trinity unites before your eyes to become what is undoubtedly the Perfect Hot Chocolate. It's chilly out there, drink up! —The Editors
Serves: 1
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
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tablespoons granulated sugar (optional, to taste)
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- In a small saucepan, mix the chocolate, cocoa powder and 1/2 cup of the milk over low heat. Stir continuously until the chocolate is completely melted.
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Setting the Table for the Year of the Snake main content.
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Shopping list: longevity noodles, tangerines, a whole fish, a whole chicken, vegetables for stir-frying, and sweet rice cakes. If you plan to celebrate Lunar New Year on February 10, those items might well be in your grocery basket.
This Sunday marks the first day of the year 4711 in the Chinese lunar calendar—the Year of the Snake. And to get the new year off to an auspicious start, families will gather to share delicious foods at a reunion dinner.
The names for many traditional Chinese New Year dishes evoke a sense of promise for the year ahead. The Cantonese word for fish, for example, is yu, which sounds like the word for "surplus." And the word for tangerine, gum, is very similar to the word for gold, a symbol of prosperity.
But it's not just what you're eating. Numbers are very important in Chinese culture, and you wouldn't want to kick off the Year of the Snake by serving an unlucky number of dishes. A table setting should have six, eight, or nine different foods.
To learn more about the food traditions of Chinese New Year, watch this video from Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture, now open at the Museum.
Visit the exhibition to see various objects associated with celebratory meals, including beautifully carved 19th-century mooncake molds used to bake pastries for another important Chinese lunar holiday: the Autumn Moon Festival.
The exclusive corporate sponsor for Our Global Kitchen is J.P. Morgan.
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Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewnilsbolsen Aug 31, 2010 6:32 AM (in response to bjewell)
Our customer had the same question last week. I gave them the results of this query.
select * from jiveUserProp where propValue = 'personalized';
- Nils
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewbjewell Aug 31, 2010 7:05 AM (in response to nilsbolsen)
Thanks very much Nils. However, in a community of 25k, only 448 have Your View as the default tab. I was shocked. We've focused on the value of Your View in all of our adoption campaign efforts, and I couldn't believe how little it was being used as the default tab.
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewnilsbolsen Aug 31, 2010 7:30 AM (in response to bjewell)
we have around the same number of users and only 44!
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewtmaurer Aug 31, 2010 9:02 AM (in response to nilsbolsen)
So we had support run this on our instance, and for a community of 5100 users, we have 439 using Your View. Our community has been live for 2 years now, though, so wondering if that has something to do with it. What are the ages of your communities?
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewbjewell Aug 31, 2010 9:30 AM (in response to tmaurer)
I wish I could claim that. Our employees have been in for 18 months and our clients for 11 months. I'm baffled by the sheer fact that so much of our literature, our new user workflow, all the in-person demos/consulting gigs our team has done emphasize Your View.
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewcrossman Aug 31, 2010 11:28 AM (in response to nilsbolsen)
We had a grand total of three with the Your View page as their post-login default, out of ~7500 active users in our internal employee community. A total of 325 have customized the page.
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewcflanagan17 Aug 31, 2010 12:32 PM (in response to crossman)
Wow, I gotta look into this for ourselves!!! CSC - we have over 52K registered users and about 26K active (logging in regularly) users.
I'll report back what I find out!
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewrdellimmagine Aug 31, 2010 9:27 AM (in response to bjewell)
I'm curious what Jive sees across its customer base. If the three cases reported here so far are representative, then community users don't seem to perceive the value in Your View, which would be interesting to know. BTW, I haven't enabled this functionality in the community I run.
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewvinh.jones Aug 31, 2010 9:33 AM (in response to rdellimmagine)
I can't report any information from our hosted customers, but I can talk to our IT team about running the query against the Jive Community and get you guys info on that. Let me look into this and get back to you.
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewvinh.jones Aug 31, 2010 11:22 AM (in response to vinh.jones)1 person found this helpful
Will pointed out the current query we're using returns the number of users who have personalized their view AND set it to the default, so the count will be much smaller than expected. This query will return all users who have ever modified their personal view:
select count(*) from jivewlayoutframe where parentObjectType=3 and published=1;
Where the parentObjectID represents the userID, in case you want to join it to jiveUser to see the user details.
Jive Community has 38K users and 566 have modified their personal view.
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewbjewell Aug 31, 2010 1:19 PM (in response to vinh.jones)
Thanks Vinh. Based on that query, we have 3872 users who have personalized their Your View and only 448 who have it set as default. That's a better story, but still not quite what I hoped.
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewgrahamkenville Aug 31, 2010 1:44 PM (in response to vinh.jones)
I got curious and ran the queries. Our internal community has ~930 users. It is just over three years old.
select * from jiveUserProp where propValue = 'personalized';
gives us 8 rows.
select count(*) from jiveWLayoutFrame where parentObjectType=3 and published=1;
returns 60.
I use the personalized page and it's a great feature. It's too bad people are missing out.
Maybe more people would use it if there were no longer separate tabs for All Content and Your View. All users would start with the system default page but with a customize link.
Another possibility is that people go to customize the page and can't figure out the mechanics. I've had space administrators put in tickets stating they couldn't edit space home pages. It turned out they didn't know to click the button in the top right of the widgets to edit them.
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewwalter.gildersleeve Aug 31, 2010 2:50 PM (in response to vinh.jones)
Note that there was a bug that made the Your View tab the default tab as soon as the user modified it, without setting it as the default in the DB This might elevate the count of people actively using the Your View tab.
The bug was CS-21659, fixed in 2.5.25, 3.0.16, 4.0.7 and 4.5.0.
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewtmaurer Aug 31, 2010 9:34 AM (in response to rdellimmagine)
I would guess it is less about perceived value and more about investment of time combined with a lack of confidence. Even though setting up Your View doesn't really take technical expertise, it is perceived as more technical. I've been surprised at how shy people are about using anything beyond what they need to. I'd be willing to bet that it isn't much different than the numbers you'd see for those who have customized their Twitter homepages or other such things. People get nervous taking steps like that - fear of failure, fear of the unknown - not sure quite what it is.
Re: Determining how many are using Your ViewAmandaS Aug 31, 2010 11:15 AM (in response to rdellimmagine)
When I attended the Boston road show event there was the same feedback – none of the Jive users polled in our session had a user base that used Your View.
We are emphasizing it more in our training but we still only see usage by select users. What we've found is that instead of using Your View, people gravitate to their team area. They will always browse to their team space (functional team, project team, whatever) and then create content there. Their first act is either to navigate to their team's area or use a browser bookmark to get there, avoiding our home page and the Your View area entirely.
Where we've seen more positive feedback on Your View is in using it to create a personal link list and to watch areas they are casual participants in. Users link to permalinked views of search results, sorted documents, filtered views etc. that they want to get back to quickly. People have also saved their most common search parameters and they use a link to that to start search vs. the main search. These are things that save them time vs. necessarily showing them what's going on in the community.
The use cases above are definitely from more active users who are also more comfortable with the technology.
I think the activity streams could be more useful with some context and then perhaps people would use and rely on them more. For example, we've had a long-standing request for a "change note" type of feature on documents. If users could state what and why they changed something, I think that would have a lot more value than just notifying people that a change occurred. Users would feel more like they could just watch a dashboard and know what's going on vs. having to dive into everything in order to get the context. See here: http://www.jivesoftware.com/jivespace/ideas/1191 for more info on this.
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewdmontgomery Aug 31, 2010 11:43 AM (in response to AmandaS)
One approach that our customers take is to "advertise" Jive features like this with links to helpful tips, a video, etc. This might be good candidate for that, and could be accomplished via an HTML widget with a link/graphic that sends users to video clip demonstrating how to configure one's Your View tab.
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewtmaurer Aug 31, 2010 11:51 AM (in response to dmontgomery)
We have done this - both emphasizing this in training sessions, as well as having both text and slideshow documentation that we've placed in Featured Content widgets to draw attention to it. I've also tried taking the tack that since it is Your View and no one else can see it, it is a great place to "play" and learn how to use the platform. But still, limited success. I like Amanda's point about it still takes work to see WHAT has actually changed. Even when you go view a document that was edited, it isn't always clear what is new.
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewcflanagan17 Aug 31, 2010 12:57 PM (in response to bjewell)
This just in from CSC (with Vinh's help since we're hosted!! - thanks Vinh) . . .
You have 62004 users, 1478 of which have modified their personalized view and 253 (!) of those have set the personalized view as their default.
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewcrossman Aug 31, 2010 1:02 PM (in response to cflanagan17)
Yeah, I'm sure Vinh can run this in his sleep after today.
This is probably really good feedback for Jive, as it would indicate that even on the "high percentage" cases listed here the number of people using this feature is actually pretty low.
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewdmontgomery Aug 31, 2010 1:15 PM (in response to crossman)
Thanks, this is good feedback, and I just bridged it to our internal community.
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewtmaurer Aug 31, 2010 1:21 PM (in response to dmontgomery)
So what other "good feedback" stats should we all be taking a look at? This really is great, both for Jive folks (who can perhaps help determine a way to move the needle), but also for those of us training on this and beating our heads against a brick wall.
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewolivia.teich Aug 31, 2010 2:13 PM (in response to bjewell)
Great discussion, and very timely! We have been taking a closer look recently at the number of users who personalize their home page, as well as those who set it to their default, as part of our design work on Jive 5. The numbers you're seeing are pretty consistent with the larger samples we've taken.
The percent of users who have personalized their page in Jive is consistently low. This matches what's seen on sites across the Web. Even when My Yahoo! was the number one landing page on the Web, personalization rates were below 10%.
From what I've seen, read, and heard from experts on this over the years, the most significant reason for low personalization rates is that, given a reasonable default, people aren't willing to invest in tailoring something just for themselves that no one else will ever see. They're much more willing to invest time in shaping an experience or perception for others, especially when that investment will reflect back on them. I bet you would all find significantly higher customization rates on place home pages than personal views!
So what does this mean in a product like Jive? Well, for one thing, we're investing heavily in Jive 5 in better personalizing the experience across the board, without requiring any explicit action or effort by the user. One way you'll see this manifest is in recommendations throughout Jive. We're also taking a much closer look at the landing page experience, especially for employees where a more personalized view makes sense. (Many public communities disable Your View completely, and the All Content page will still be the default.) With Jive 5, you'll see a big evolution of the employee landing page experience with the introduction of What Matters, which will help immediately draw people into what they need to see, know, and do, as well as what they may be interested in and have otherwise missed. Must-see information like Announcements can also be better delivered (and read-tracked) in this context. We'll still support personalization for the power users, but we firmly believe that with a focus on What Matters, we can improve the experience for newbies and experts alike.
We're really excited for what's coming in Jive 5 and we'll be sharing more on this with you over the next several months as we continue to evolve and refine the experience.
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewcrossman Aug 31, 2010 2:17 PM (in response to olivia.teich)
given a reasonable default, people aren't willing to invest in tailoring something just for themselves
Since we have the lowest percentage of Your View customization then this statement must mean we have the best default home page. We win!! Thanks for taking a sad song and making it better.
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewkarlcyr Aug 31, 2010 2:32 PM (in response to crossman)
Since we have the lowest percentage of Your View customization then this statement must mean we have the best default home page. We win!!
Wow, you are a born marketer .
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewtmaurer Sep 1, 2010 4:17 AM (in response to crossman)
And thanks, Kevin, for throwing cold water on the rest of us.
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewcflanagan17 Sep 1, 2010 4:45 AM (in response to olivia.teich)
Olivia, I realize this data might be consistent with what you've seen. Yet it is also one of the most important tools we can offer our "power users" and one that we often promote as way to personalize how one views the noise.
I'm actually hoping Jive does not program out that very important choice and allow administrators to decide if users still have this view available. In the past we've used Plumtree portal and Websphere portal, and the mere fact that personalize was non-existent (or low at best) makes Jive a win for people who need it. We actually expect to do a more rigorous campaign around this very feature since, as you know, C3 will become our primary internal tool (with our Portal and Project Centers shutting down by October, this one feature will be receiving a bigger push).
Please don't engineer out the personalization choice that has been the hallmark of why this product rocked against so many others - regardless of what Jive thinks is important to a user, they often want to feel in control. Let's not dismiss few, for an enterprise like ours, they are just as important as the masses.
Ok, just my two cents. Thanks!
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewolivia.teich Sep 1, 2010 10:39 AM (in response to cflanagan17)
Heard you loud and clear. To reiterate:
We'll still support personalization
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewcflanagan17 Sep 1, 2010 11:25 AM (in response to olivia.teich)
Oh yay!! You're right I didn't see that embedded in your reply. Good. That will certainly go a long way for our users.
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewcflanagan17 Sep 1, 2010 4:45 AM (in response to olivia.teich)
By the way, Olivia, your new avatar rocks! Nice shot. Can't wait to see you and the team in a few weeks!!
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewolivia.teich Sep 1, 2010 10:40 AM (in response to cflanagan17)
Thanks, and likewise!
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewit2000 Sep 1, 2010 11:02 PM (in response to olivia.teich)
I'd say that the default view is much too good, so there's no need to create a personal view. Anyhow one should try to keep it as is, a low rate of personal views may be what a good screen designer (you, as long as little customization is done) expects. We have 50 personalized views for 9000 active users at igniterealtime.org.
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewbjewell Sep 2, 2010 6:14 AM (in response to it2000)
I don't think that is a universal truth. It is going to vary by Jive community based on the scope of the community and the needs of your audiences. If you have a more narrow scope and audience, then what you say is possible. We have a broad community with multiple audiences, and our content is spread across hundreds of spaces and thousands of groups. Popular documents and discussions for one audience are not the same for another. Recent content widgets of any type are fairly useless on All Content unless you log in every few hours (and our clients do not). For example, my Recent Content widget is currently set to only show discussions and return 100 results. It's 8am now, and the oldest item in the list is 13 hours old. What we really need is an automagical filter that filters those results based on what I really care about, which is why I'm eager to see more of the chatter filter stuff in 5.0 at JW10.
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewtmaurer Sep 2, 2010 7:15 AM (in response to bjewell)
Very good explanation, Brice. It is the same for our community. There is SOME information that should/could carry across the entire organization. But for the most part, that is not the case. And people being people, they want to see what matters to them, not necessarily what matters to the company (hence the point of "social" media and allowing the users to drive the direction).
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewit2000 Sep 3, 2010 9:19 AM (in response to bjewell)
"Recent content widgets of any type are fairly useless on All Content" I (don't) agree. Anyhow a customer which is not small will likely not buy 10 SBS licenses to have a unique installation for every department even if this would make sense to separate content and then to bridge it to a global intranet.
Would it make sense
- to have a software layer above "spaces" which allows to separate departments?
- to set the Recent Content Widget to "Only show content from the places you follow."?
A new user may have a big problem as it does not follow any places and is not a member of groups, but maybe Jive can extend SBS so one can set space or group membership according to LDAP properties like department, job function, ...
I don't like that "edit Your View" does always offer to edit the layout as I usually only edit the settings of widgets. Maybe this is also something which stops users from customizing the page.
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewsscullion Sep 3, 2010 4:43 AM (in response to olivia.teich)
Looks like I'm one of the very few in the minority of using their personalised "Your View"!
So I thought I'd share, I have 5 widgets on my personal page, listed in order of importance:
- Your connections
- Status updates
- Bookmarks (set to watch a specific tag)
- Your groups
- Places
4 & 5 I could live without easily, and 3 could be done in other ways.
But "Your Connections" is EVERYTHING to the way I consume and participate on our Jive platform. For me it is pretty much all people-centric, and I'd be lost without this!
I only occasionally pop over to the main homepage.
This is how I make the experience relevant to ME. The "recommendations" you mention in v5 sound very interesting, as does "What Matters".
However this is great for an established "power user". I see the issue very differently for a new user of an established site. It is very difficult for them to see it as relevant. OMG, there's so much stuff here, where do I start!? is something I've heard a lot. So I'd love to learn how recommendations and What Matters will work for newbies, whether it will be profile driven for example? One thought I'd had was a kind of wizard, taking new users through a series of questions, perhaps auto-completing their profile from some of the answers, but suggesting groups for them to join, people to follow etc, Oh, and leading them to their "Your View" of course!
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewtmaurer Sep 3, 2010 6:55 AM (in response to sscullion)
I'm not sure that all established power users will want to customize their Your View. Or maybe not have it as their default homepage. I think there are plenty of people who are content to just let the system do its thing and tell them what might be of interest to them (or not). Like they "know" what they want to use the system for, and don't need to discover.
What I really think the What Matters page is going to help with, though, is engagement. Assuming it is done right, it will help suck people deeper into usage. Pointing out discussions where they might have a strong enough opinion to make a comment. Showing them blog posts that help them learn about something important to their job. Connecting them with people doing similar job functions or usage patterns. Those are the places I can see power in this, and a power I'm hoping will help make all of our jobs easier. Or at least more fun and interesting. I'd much rather work with people who are already engaged, than to try and convince unwilling people why they should engage.
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewbjewell Sep 3, 2010 7:02 AM (in response to tmaurer)
For your entertainment…
At the end of the day, no matter how diligent our efforts, we still won't reach everyone. This comment comes from our August satisfaction survey results:
"Still would like more customizability as to how to view information on the screen when you initially login, and for email notifications."
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewolivia.teich Sep 3, 2010 10:22 AM (in response to sscullion)
This is very helpful. Thanks!
But "Your Connections" is EVERYTHING to the way I consume and participate on our Jive platform.
This is absolutely core in What Matters.
- Your connections
- Status updates
- Bookmarks (set to watch a specific tag)
These are all key parts of What Matters as well. Instead of separate widgets, you'll have much richer interaction options around them right in your stream (inline commenting, hiding things you no longer want to see, grouping and roll-ups of updates, etc.)
We are currently planning to add a new top-level page to the navigation in 5.0 for your Places, which will show you all your places and help you find and discover others.
We're stil working through the specifics around the new user experience when entering an established community. Absolutely looking at ways to better guide new members into seeing quick value in the community. More later on that.
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewwjastrowski Jun 27, 2011 11:45 PM (in response to bjewell)
With the introduction of Jive5 we will "loose" the Your View tab, therefore I checked how many of our users used it to get an understanding on the change management needs. In total we have ca. 12'000 users who have access, of which 85% use it:
SELECT COUNT (*) FROM jiveUserProp jp, jiveuser ju WHERE propValue = 'personalized' AND jp.userid = ju.userid AND ju.userenabled = 1;
results in 965 users.
SELECT count(*) FROM jivewlayoutframe jf, jiveuser ju WHERE parentObjectType = 3 AND published = 1 AND JF.PARENTOBJECTID = ju.userid AND JU.USERENABLED = 1;
results in 1071 users.
Does anybody already started to think about this aspect of change management for introducing Jive5 with 10% of the community using the Your View?
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewsjenkins Jun 28, 2011 11:08 AM (in response to wjastrowski)
I will be out of the office from June 27th until July 11th, 2011. For assistance please contact Nathan Miner or Andrew White.
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Re: Determining how many are using Your ViewAmandaS Jun 28, 2011 12:24 PM (in response to wjastrowski)
Hi Wolfgang –
I am still concerned about this given our community's use of Your View. I would have loved to have seen the Community Activity widget evolve into the new What Matters stream and still had the other Your View customization capabilities.
It's my job to advocate for what our users want so I've given feedback on this change since February. I have seen a lot of concerns expressed by others as well about the loss of Your View but I don't see any change in direction coming around that from Jive. So, at this point I was going to "wait and see" what happens when others upgrade. I have users who use the Your View to watch specific tags, watch blog posts only, watch new users joining the system, create their own set of links to specific content and views of content (via permalinks to filtered views), quickly jump to their recent content (Your Content widget) etc. Our users who don't use Your View navigate immediately to the main team area which is most relevant to them.
Another community member has suggested that we could tell people to create their own Secret group as a substitute for Your View. I think that could be a possible bridge for anyone who is very bothered by the loss of this feature. It could help them move from 4.5 to 5.x and then, over time, determine whether they really need that group any longer. It's something to consider but it would cause some cleanup for you whenever one of those users leaves your company/community.
- Amanda
Re: Determining how many are using Your ViewApril Jacobs Jun 28, 2011 12:32 PM (in response to AmandaS)
I'm unable to run this type of report for my community (maybe support can help?). But I too am concerned about losing the Your View tab as this is where I and all my moderators live on the platform. I don't feel there is a suitable OOB replacement and don't want to see all activity smooshed together in an aggregated format. I've been told that we may be able to leverage apps, but those aren't live yet, so I am also in Wait and See mode.
It's troublesome that the Your View tab has been so heavily messaged in every version. Heck, in 4.5 new users automatically land there with big blue boxes telling them how to utilize it. Why take away such a powerful feature, especially when it's SO in your face in 4.x?
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewtmaurer Jun 28, 2011 12:39 PM (in response to AmandaS)
The part that I am most frustrated with on this count is that one of the things I had been teaching people was to use a Formatted Text widget to put in things you'd normally use a sticky note on your desk for - the number for your husband/wife, a school contact number, a specific external link that you reference frequently. There is no good place to do this in 5.0, unless you just create a Personal Document with that info, and that isn't as prominently placed.
And I really like being able to toggle my current view from Connections to Colleagues to Everyone in the Community Activity widget. It is really going to be a big switch.
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewcflanagan17 Jun 28, 2011 3:08 PM (in response to tmaurer)
I, too, share everyone's concerns. I was told by Jive's Patrick Lin that they expect the "App Marketplace" will provide similar ability to the "Your View" and that they would provide Jive default "apps" (that would be core "widgets") for the app marketplace.
I have been traveling too much in the last 4 weeks to follow up with him since Jive 5 Beta got updated for the champions/beta customers. It might be time to get an official statemet from Jive to update us on this.
Specific questions I have:
1. What widgets will be available as default Jive apps? (Can we have a mapping provided?) I know I had provided Jive with our desired list.
2. Will they support what I think I heard - the ability for a user to use the "App Marketplace" to replicate a "Your View" experience? (I think the answer is yes.)
3. And finally if #2 is true, then when will it be available in the product? (I think I heard from Patrick that this function might not make it for 5.0.1 release, but it might be a future, early point release. I'm ok if it's not 5.0.1 - but it can't be 5.5 for instance, so an idea of timing would impact when CSC moves.)
On a side note - - Today I just had to deliver a presentation to APQC on CSC's KM program - and this very topic came up - how do we provide the ability for employees to personalize their filters and controls? This is a big deal. We see - others do as well.
Re: Determining how many are using Your ViewAmandaS Jun 28, 2011 5:31 PM (in response to cflanagan17)
I think it's interesting how this thread has evolved over the past ~year since it started. A year ago we were not yet on Jive 4.5 – that made a big difference for us. The combination of the 4.5 upgrade and pointing out Your View during new user sessions (not everyone attends a new user session) really jumped up our usage and especially value for the power users. In starting to look at Jive5 at the start of this year I was really concerned that this feature we'd just gotten traction on, and now have people reliant upon, was being taken away. I've expressed a lot of that in another community.
Like Claire, I've also heard that the apps view will act as a replacement for Your View as Jive only wanted one customizable area and not two. So far in looking at the Beta I don't see how that's going to happen but I'm hopeful it will become much more clear. We need to keep our users productive moving forward and not lose momentum on the adoption and usage of the system for getting work done (e.g. we don't want to take away the tools that have made people more productive and able to manage their work).
Re: Determining how many are using Your ViewAmandaS Jul 28, 2011 12:20 PM (in response to AmandaS)
I had a user support incident come up today which sparked a lot of conversation and I wanted to post the gist of it here since the "solution" for the end user involved Your View.
A user in our Global Support organization (which is a very active user group for us) wanted a way to track content that she has commented on. Your comments are not tracked under Your Stuff or in your profile. They aren't really treated like content by the system although users think of them as content. One suggestion was for her to manually bookmark everything that she comments on. She really didn't like that idea as she users bookmarks in a different way. What she came up with herself was to use the "Watch a User" widget and set herself as the user. It's interesting that Watch a User shows comments but the Your Content widget does not. Anyway, I just wanted to show another example of how the Your View helped a user to solve their own problem and be more productive in a way that works for them.
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewandrew.k.gold Jul 28, 2011 12:44 PM (in response to AmandaS)
Thanks for sharing Amanda. Great solution tracking your comments. Clearly a product design oversight and beneficial workaround.
Re: Determining how many are using Your Viewjasonrood80 Aug 7, 2013 2:19 PM (in response to bjewell)
Really helpful discussion! Thanks Brice Jewell and Nils Bolsen.


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Late last year, I started watching and monitoring the #socialbiz hashtag on Twitter. I was in the middle of writing my book and conducting in depth research of companies that were at least talking about or referring to a social business. One company seemed to dominate the conversation, IBM. I watched more closely and realized that there were literally hundreds of IBM employees collaborating with the community and adding value to the "social business" conversation. I was really impressed and wanted to learn more.
Even with over 400 thousand employees, sadly I didn't know anyone who works for IBM. And then one day, I met Dana Carr on Twitter and we started emailing back and forth. She was able to get me exclusive access (well, not really) with Jeff Schick, Vice President of Social Software who has been working for IBM for the last 23 years for an email interview.
1. What is your definition of a social business? Is IBM a social business? Please explain.
Social Business is the world of possibility that occurs when all of the energy and opportunities that have been generated around consumer-side models such as Facebook and Twitter are focused, and brought to bear on business challenges. The stuff that has sprung up on the consumer side is just the tip of the iceberg. The real mass, the real power to transform, is on the business side. This is where a social framework can create new ways to enable sales forces, new ways to discover expertise, new ways to understand your organization's culture, new ways to establish brand trust with your customers, and much more.
IBM is most certainly a social business and a pioneer at that. We're the largest consumer of social technologies, and a case study for this transformation. This goes beyond our business in social software and services (IBM's collaboration software, consulting services, analytics/social media research, conducting Jams for clients). We're leading social business on all fronts – technology, policy and practice.
Our social initiatives started over a decade ago and really date back to the 1970's when our mainframe programmers started online discussion forums on the System 370 consoles. For 15 years, IBM employees have used social software to foster collaboration among our dispersed 400,000+ person global team — long before Generation Y became fixated with social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. In 1997, IBM recommended that its employees get out onto the Internet – at a time when many companies were seeking to restrict their employees' Internet access. A few years later, in 2005, we made a strategic decision to embrace the blogosphere and to encourage IBMers to participate. In 2008, we introduced the first social computing guidelines to encompass virtual worlds and sharing of rich media. These guidelines aimed and continue to provide helpful, practical advice to protect both IBM'ers and IBM the brand. In 2008 and again in 2010 we turned to employees to re-examine our guidelines in light of ever-evolving technologies and online social tools to ensure they remain current to the needs of employees and the company. These efforts have broadened the scope of the existing guidelines to include all forms of social computing.
In late 2007, we opened the IBM Center for Social Software to help IBM's global network of Researchers collaborate with corporate residents, university students and faculty, creating the industry's premier incubator for the research, development and testing of social software that is "fit for business."
Recent projects we're pursuing focus on the concept that IBM is experienced through the IBMer. People get to know IBM through our consultants, speakers, salespeople and researchers. Within our walls, we have huge stores of accrued expertise embodied in several Nobel laureates and thousands of doctors. We're working to best utilize our most important asset, our people, helping to identify their strengths and expertise and then connecting them with potential customers, partners and the knowledge seeking public visiting IBM.com. We call it the Expertise Locator.
So you can see, our social initiatives run deep and have evolved with the times. But, there is one constant, as you hear about IBM's approach to Social Business, you'll notice that our thinking isn't document centric. It's people centric.
2. I believe a social business is built upon three pillars – people (culture/leadership), process and technology. In your opinion, what should be the first priority?
People. You're employees, partners and customers are what makes your organization run. You can't forget about them when launching a social push, they drive the engine. When we talk about social business we talk about embracing the networks of people you have to create business value. We believe the most effective approach to enabling a social business centers around helping people discover expertise, develop social networks and capitalize on relationships. It helps groups of people bind together into communities of shared interest and coordinate efforts to deliver better business results faster. Culture is of course all part of this. An effective social business embodies a culture characterized by sharing, transparency, innovation and improved decision making. Such a culture enables deeper relationships within the organization and with customers and business partners.
a. How important is culture change to the evolution of social business?
Culture change may be the most challenging component of successfully transforming into a social business. In order to influence a cultural change you have to educate and encourage. Social tools provide a gateway for information exchanges across geographies and organizational silos. Building trust and encouraging social interactions are essential to driving a social change in the workforce. To become a social business you have to recognize that employees need to be agile, informed and able to work beyond their specific job descriptions. In order to support this, you must provide tools and the cultural incentives that allow employees more access to the right information and the right people. You must reduce both the cultural boundaries as well as the technical obstacles for people to connect with people and information, allowing unprecedented access.
Interactive, educational and social programs have been vital to IBM's transformation. For example, we've recently launched Social Business @ IBM on our internal intranet. This is a resource for IBM'ers that aims to educate them about social media and various social initiatives taking place internally while enabling them to participate. We host modules that provide the IBM'er with an introduction to the social web. They learn how to use social computing tools to foster collaboration, disseminate and consume news, develop networks, forge closer relationships, and build credibility. As a result, they're better informed and prepared to take action. By making these types of tools and information available, we're changing how the IBM'er approaches social and twofold, changing our culture.
b. How important is the creation of processes to the evolution of social business?
The evolution of social business is a process in itself. An organization must go through the process of identifying market factors that are generating the need for a transformation, it must recognize the social objectives it needs to accomplish, then establish social outputs that will support the objectives and finally, executives need to determine which platforms, applications, and features they'll need to meet desired outcomes. These basic principles or processes are vital to the success of a social business. Similar actions must be taken for each department and social initiative.
c. How important is technology to the evolution of social business?
Technology is certainly a key factor in the evolution. An organization must adopt tools that work efficiently in order to successfully make this transformation. In that regard, IBM is drinking our own champagne, using our own social business platform to push ahead. In 2010, with 35 percent of Fortune 100 companies using IBM social software in the enterprise, IDC named IBM as the #1 social software platform company in the industry. Just this month, IDC put us on top again, so we feel pretty confident that our technology plays a vital role in the social business transformation.
While social software adoption is on the rise, a growing challenge for global organizations is the ability to manage risk while harnessing insights from a wide variety of social communities and remaining compliant with their own governance policies, including practices dictated by their regulatory requirements. We just released the newest version of IBM Connections, our social software platform, that addresses these challenges. The new IBM Connections > allows organizations to track and trace data on the fly throughout their organizations, then analyze in real-time using the IBM Connections active compliance service versus waiting until day end for analysis. With these new advancements around compliance enablement, a social business can confidently activate networks of people to use a variety of collaborative tools, to improve and accelerate innovation.
Social business technology is also vital in supporting the mobile workforce. We're witnessing an explosion in the number and type of computing devices in the market today. Just one example is the growth of tablets. Up to 47.9 million tablet PC units are expected to be shipped this year, and 79.6 million next year, according to the latest J.P. Morgan forecasts. In all, this represents a $35 billion annual revenue opportunity, says the investment firm. And they are not all iPad's. This dizzying influx of new devices is causing a major disruption in the enterprise. With the mobile workforce expected to reach more than 1.19 billion by 2013, nearly 1 trillion Internet-connected devices will be in market by next year, generating 20 times more mobile data by 2015. Social enabling these workers to be effective, collaborate and innovate is a major requirement for organizations. IBM is delivering a broad range of social software and collaboration capabilities to employees to better connect through mobile devices. Whether it be iPhones, iPads, BlackBerry, PlayBook, Nokia or Android. For example, through our Connections software we are enabling mobile employees to create networks, documents, share files through a community that they can access and manage on their mobile device. The software delivers features that enable mobile employees to collaborate on the fly this includes developing social networks, sharing files, locating business experts, participating in online discussions and conducting in web meetings. Mobile is the future of the workforce and organizations must learn how to support them with social technology.
3. I believe that the growing influence of the social customer, among other things, is what is causing business today to humanize its operations. Do you agree? Why or why not?
Absolutely. You have to go to where your customers are. Today, customers are out on social networks looking for information. In order to successfully reach them, we need to be active on those platforms, and most importantly engaged with the knowledge seekers. Most business leaders understand this. In fact, 88 percent of all CEOs who participated on the 2010 IBM CEO study picked "getting closer to the customer" as the most important dimension to realize their strategy in the next five years. But understanding the importance and actually knowing how to act on it are very different. Consumers are connecting with brands in fundamentally new ways. Customers rely on digital interactions, peer evaluations, social media and online after-purchase support to make decisions. Organizations have to become customer centric to survive. Social media tools must be ingrained in an organizations end-to-end business. Organizations also have to be good listeners, and instead of pushing out messages and offers, engagement through open dialogue integrated with rich media capabilities should be implemented.
a. What has caused IBM to evolve into a social business?
IBM has always been about innovation, pushing the envelope. But there's no "i" in innovation at IBM, its always been about the collective, creative mind – collaboration. So becoming a holistic, social business has been somewhat of a natural transformation for the organization – we want to work together to achieve our goals.
The new workforce has also played a part in our transformation. The younger generation of workers demands tools that help them do work better, communicate with their peers and connect with IBM'ers with similar interests. In order to appease this new workforce, we had to develop tools they were familiar with (Facebook, blogs, Twitter) and relate them to business goals. What better asset does an organization have than its employees? Its the IBM'ers that have pushed us as an organization to develop these social tools, social media guidelines, etc. We recognize that our employees are our what makes the IBM brand and services the best in the world.
4. IBM is a huge organization; and spread out globally. How is social media managed internally? What does the organization look like (i.e. centralized, decentralized, matrix)? Is there a Center of Excellence?
We're structured as a matrix. We have regional social media managers and teams supporting them based on geography (for example US or Europe) who are working to educate and enable IBM'ers and identify "experts." Its these managers who are behind the Social Business @ IBM project where IBM'ers can go to become educated and start to engage on social platforms. This program serves as our "Center of Excellence". Our social business strategy seeks to focus interactions on concrete outcomes, enhancing each IBM'ers social presence, projecting their expertise, driving innovation and ultimately, delivering business value. With the Social Business @ IBM site, IBM'ers can achieve these goals more effectively than if they were on their own. Whether they're a newcomer to social media, an expert seeking to project their expertise over social channels, or an active social business practitioner who wants to engage in specific IBM programs – everything they need is in one spot.
5. There are several hundred IBMers engaged on Twitter and within the social web. Is this by design or did it happen organically?
Actually it's closer to 25,000 IBMers actively tweeting on Twitter and counting. Not only are we present on Twitter but we also have over 300,000 IBMers on Linkedin and 198,000 on Facebook. This is just our external social media footprint. Some examples of IBM's internal social media footprint today include:
- 17,000 individual blogs
- 1 million daily page views of internal wikis, internal information storing website
- 400,000 employee profiles on IBM Connections, IBM's social networking initiative that allows employees to share status updates, collaborate on wikis, blogs and activity, share files.
- 15,000,000 downloads of employee-generated videos/podcasts
- 20 million minutes of LotusLive meetings every month with people both inside and outside the organization
- More than 400k Sametime instant messaging users, resulting in 40-50 million instant messages per day
We don't force anyone to participate in social media externally or internally, but its a natural curiosity and interest for IBMers, so we educate and enable them.
We were one of the first organizations to embrace the blogosphere and encourage our employees to participate. Our own IBM bloggers were the ones to develop the company's Blogging Policy and Guidelines which has evolved into the social computing guidelines as external social platforms have sprung up and evolved.
So our social web engagement is a little bit of both organic interest and careful design and education.
6. Can any IBM employee engage externally with partners, suppliers and customers?
Essentially, yes, and we aim and work to provide the necessary tools and education so that any IBM'er can effectively engage. In 2007 we realized that our client-facing teams were on the front lines for engaging in meaningful conversations with customers about this emerging technology, social software, and we knew we needed to equip these teams with the skills and experience to drive business growth, so we created the BlueIQ program. The BlueIQ team consists of eight worldwide employees who have been tasked with enablement, education, consulting, support, mentoring, and coaching of IBM employees on how they can use social tools in their daily work to help them improve collaboration and share knowledge across the company. At first the target audience for BlueIQ was 16,000 traditional salespeople and technical salespeople (populations that historically do not share knowledge or relationships due to perceived impact on quotas and commissions). Based on the viral adoption of the initial program, BlueIQ extended support to IBM's 400,000-plus workforce. This program has given our employees the knowledge they need to effectively communicate with our constituents – customers, partners, suppliers, etc.
7. Please explain IBM's journey to social business transformation. Are there any gaps?
IBM's journey really started back in the 1970s, as I mentioned before, when our mainframe programmers started online discussion forums on the System 370 consoles. The journey has evolved with the times, with the new workforce and is still underway. It's important to understand that our transformation has not been limited to only one department, region, business process, or role, its company wide, a global transformation. It's also important to note that our transformation is not without its challenges. IDC published the results of their Social Business Survey* identifying that the top three challenges associated with using enterprise social software, they are getting people to participate, measuring the impact on business goals, and finding the time to use another tool. Other challenges include security, governance, and privacy concerns. IBM has not been immune to any of these. Realistically, any company making the transition to a social business will face some issues along the way.
8. How do you measure the effectiveness of a social business?
We measure the effectiveness in very traditional ways – is it ultimately affecting our bottom line, and the answer is yes. For example, using our own social business platform, more than 130 communities of IBM professionals around the globe are collaborating virtually. This has reduced the time it would have taken to complete projects by 30%, increased re-use of "software assets" by 50%, and cut component costs by 33%. But we also take into account less quantifiable effectiveness like increases in employee satisfaction, new relationships, and expertise.
9. What advice can you give to other executives who want to transform their organizations into a fully collaborative social business?
We've learned many valuable lessons along our social business transformation journey. One of the biggest lessons learned was that social business transformation involves more changes to culture than technology. Remember that your employees are your most important asset. Shift your focus from documents, project plans and other temporary artifacts to the source of the energy, creativity and decision making that moves the business forward: people. Remember that trust is a key element to becoming a social business. An organization needs a certain level of trust to empower its employees to share their ideas and expertise and it must demonstrate this trust by rewarding behavior. At the same time, this trust must be balanced with an appropriate level of governance or discipline that sets the parameters of appropriate actions. Lastly, becoming a social business is not simply a matter of deploying some collaboration tools and hoping for the best. It is a long-term strategic approach to shaping a business culture and is highly dependent on executive leadership and effective corporate strategy, including business processes, risk management, leadership development, financial controls and business analytics.
*Source: IDC's Social Business Survey, September 2010
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Thank you Dana and Jeff for providing me with this information. It was truly enlightening to learn about IBM, its culture and journey to become a fully collaborative social business.
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