Enabling people to connect, collaborate and innovate

IBM believes that the value and strength of Web 2.0 is realized through the Power of Participation. This is why people and social computing are central to our strategy and why our focus on social computing is to enable people to connect, collaborate and innovate. Why is this focus so important? Because it enables you to capture and preserve the collective knowledge and expertise from your communities! It can help you establish a more collaborative environment and can create a culture that fosters innovation. And, tech-savvy people like you expect the latest technologies that are highly adaptable and interactive.

IBM is helping people find innovative ways to work more efficiently with tools that:

• Inspire breakthrough thinking, information-sharing and decision-making.
• Expand the opportunity to connect to expertise and the ability to apply knowledge faster.
• Help motivate individuals and teams to share and aggregate the knowledge of many people in specific business areas.

Lightweight Web 2.0 capabilities from IBM (e.g. wikis, blogs, profiles, communities, activities) let people collaborate and share information online in new ways. Learn more.