Now while many companies still wonder if they should allow employees to use Facebook at work or if Twitter helps or not, IBM not only allows employees to experiment around social software but also encourages employees and teaches them how to make the best of it.
If you start being active in the virtual environment you will notice there are many IBMers doing the same as you: some promoting a product, a service, some evangelizing about virtual worlds, some building communities or collecting funds for women in need, some keeping us updated with cool news, some telling us about their blooming ideas and so on. There is no other feeling like contributing to something asbig as changing the way you work and your world!
And through this cool network, you'll often see a #blueiq. It's not because we are in a strange cult :-) but because we are part of a community aiming to help everyone connect, understand social software,use it and share our new skills with our teams. There is no better way of "teaching" social software as using it and showing people what it can do. We support HR, Communications, Sales, Marketing , Delivery teams, new hires or Managers with making themselves heard,building their own team of experts....and more.And we are proud of it :-) I remember the day I met @elsua, @ragtag, @andypiper, @kafkaspice, @rawn, @laurisa and more in Berlin. Was one of my best IBM experiences so far. Meeting the knights who were fighting for the same goal: making the blue giant more social ;-)
I am sure you want to belong to a community just like mine :-) If there is one in your company then join it! If not, starting building it! And if you are in IBM, say HI!
@silviaemilia
Hiya, Silvia! Very very nice blog post, indeed! Thanks for jumping in and for sharing with everyone some of the stuff we do at IBM with BlueIQ. This is really really helpful for others to find out what our adoption efforts are like inside the firewall and interestingly enough this post comes up with a nice timing, because @joshscribner is putting together a public deck on BlueIQ and what we do and it would be a nice addition to this lovely post. So thanks a bunch for the heads up, for the feedback and look forward to another BlueIQ F2F event! :-D
ReplyDeleteola :-) welcome, and looking forward to seeing the deck :-)
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely! Not to worry! It's for an upcoming event that Josh will be doing externally, so whenever that happens we will be spreading the message around... Hang in there! ;-)
ReplyDeleteThanks again for the great blog post and for helping spread the message some more! :-D