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    IBM Connections

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    Darryl K. Taft
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    January 19, 2012
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      1IBM Connections

      There are 635,000 internal users of IBM Connections, including contractors.

      2Blogs

      2

      IBM has 20,000 blogs, and in 2005, a set of IBM employees-using a wiki-created the first set of guidelines for their colleagues who wanted to blog.

      3Bloggers

      IBM has more than 105,100.

      4Communities

      IBM has more than 74,800 communities, touching on just about everything Big Blue, from hardware and software to services and partners.

      5Activities

      IBM has more than 203,300 activities, designed to make it easier for IBMers and their teams to organize their work and plan their efforts.

      6Bookmarks

      There are more than 1.33 million bookmarks, all designed to help Big Blue employees more easily find and access the Websites they routinely visit.

      7Shared Files

      There are 475,000 files shared (and 9.5 million downloads).

      8Wikis

      IBM has 50,000 wikis, another way to enable employees to more easily collaborate.

      9Locator Service

      There are 31,000 IBM experts enrolled in Big Blue’s Expertise Locator service.

      10Sametime

      10

      IBM has 400,000 unique users of its Sametime instant messaging within Big Blue.

      11Daily Users

      There are about 360,000 unique daily users of Sametime IM at IBM.

      12Concurrent Users

      12

      During peak load at IBM, there are 230,000 concurrent users of Sametime.

      13Messages Per Day

      On any given day, there are 50 million Sametime instant messages shared within IBM.

      14Messages Per Second

      All that IMing translates to about 578 Sametime instant messages sent per second within IBM each day.

      15Log-Ons

      There are 1.1 million Sametime log-ons each day at IBM.

      16LotusLive

      Every month, there are 30 million meeting minutes for LotusLive Meetings at IBM.

      17Facebook

      IBMers also leverage Facebook, the world’s largest social network: There are 198,000 current Big Blue employees on Facebook.

      18LinkedIn

      Another 281,000 current IBM employees are on LinkedIn, with 16 million first-order connections and 615,000 IBM followers.

      19Twitter

      Twitter is another popular social networking tool at the company, with more than 20,000 identified IBMers on the site.

      20Indy Blogs

      20

      There are thousands of individual IBMers blogging on independent sites.

      21developerWorks

      21

      IBM’s how-to developer Website has 8 million users and 300,000 profiled members.

      22GreaterIBM Connections

      22

      The GreaterIBM Connections group for current and former IBMers and retirees supports more than 100,000 IBM alumni on its network.

      23Market Leader

      23

      Research firm IDC ranked IBM No. 1 in worldwide market share for social platform software for 2009 and 2010.

      24Cloud

      24

      IBM LotusLive has become IBM SmartCloud for Social Business. It’s designed to simplify access to business-grade file sharing, social networking, communities, online meetings, instant messaging, email and calendar. In addition, IBM SmartCloud for Social Business will deliver a cloud-based productivity suite allowing users to co-edit documents in real time.

      25Mobile

      25

      IBM’s new social software supports most popular mobile devices, including tablets. The software runs on Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android and RIM’s BlackBerry platforms, and will soon be on Microsoft’s Windows Phone.

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