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Performance Guru Advocates the Human Side of Social Business

Martin Packer describes himself as an “IBMer, Mainframe Performance Guy and zChampion, who gets to think about lots of other stuff.” And if you’d follow him on Twitter, friend him… Read More »

Techie Uses IBM developerWorks to Build Social Eminence

Nigel Griffiths eats, drinks and sleeps Power Systems. Around 15 years ago, this IBM performance guru located in the United Kingdom authored a free utility he called nmon (short for… Read More »

Master Inventor Extols “the Unedited Voice of the Individual”

This past May, Tony Pearson had a problem. He was visiting with a group of customers in Australia —  nearly 8,000 miles away from his home base at the IBM… Read More »

A chat with Willie Favero DB2 for z/OS evangelist about is secrets for social media success

With close to 6,000 RSS subscriptions and 14,000 to 15,000 hits a month, Willie Favero runs one of the top DB2 for z/OS blogs on the Internet. So when Willie… Read More »

SocialMedia in the Underground World of B2B

I just returned from SXSW Interactive, it was my first experience attending this event and I was thrilled be a part of it. If you’ve heard from others that it… Read More »

“Server Chick” Uses Social Media to Set the Record Straight

Being referred to as a “server chick” on a blog post may not flatter most women, but to my IBM colleague Elisabeth Stahl, it was a sign that she had… Read More »

Thoughts on establishing a branded blog

Working for a Global Brand can bring questions and challenges for employees when it comes to whether or not they should establish a branded blog in their respective region or… Read More »

Building IBM Social Computing Guidelines

In the spring of 2005, IBMers used a wiki to create a set of guidelines for all IBMers who wanted to blog. These guidelines aimed to provide helpful, practical advice… Read More »

Using social for business

There are so many ways that I use social to conduct business, it’s become natural and critical to my productivity. I realize after some reflection, quite likely I take it… Read More »

Traits of Subject Matter Experts who are successfully sharing their knowledge and expertise through social networking

Over the last few years I’ve been working with colleagues across my company to provide them guidance on becoming more effective with sharing their domain knowledge through social networking and… Read More »