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Live blog at #BLUG with Kevin Cavanaugh


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Scroll below for my comments as well



BLUG kicked off with a keynote from Kevin Cavanaugh. Keep up with my comments and the CoveritLive event.

  • I found it interesting how they segmented parts of the symposium at Lotusphere around social business.  While each area does (definitely) have different needs, it seems many businesses are missing from the core focus. I know the larger monetary content is in those categories they covered.
  • Kevin had a slide showing mainframe era days, into departmental the introduction of the PC, Internet based and now social.  Interestingly, it isn't the introduction of social now.  It is learning how to better share, digest and filter the data.
  • Kevin still faces companies not wanting to talk about social business.  Is it the package that IBM is selling in general or the idea of social business is what came to my mind first.
  • Kevin brought up the point that making social business an IT project is destined to fail.  He makes a good statement since the back end architecture has nothing to do with getting buy in and participation from everyone in the company.  Without that, the data is never shared, organized and promoted.
  • Kevin then launched into a very tiny slide on the IBM Social Business Framework
  • Social connectors tie together social services and analytics.  Layers of software to bring social networks together to give a better rounded view of social data.
  • The Social Business Tolkit is an interesting piece with gadgets, iWidgets, open AJAX ad iCal for example.  I hope these are to bring more corporate data to the social front and not just always pull external data in for consumption.
  • Kevin moved into a live demo of Project Vulcan.  I might be off here (verifying) but he specifically said they went to a browser approach to move away from the heavy client
  • Interesting as Kevin flips between Vulcan, LotusLive and then the rich notes client with integration via Plugins to LotusLive and cloud type architectures.  Which is the right path?