Why IBM for social software
IBM Lotus® Connections is social computing software for business that empowers you to be more innovative.
Learn about social software
Home page
See what's happening across your social network
Profiles
Find the people you need
Communities
Work with people who share common interests and expertise
Activities
Organize your work and tap your professional network
Files
Post, share, and discover documents, presentations, images, and more.
Blogs
Present your own ideas, and learn from others
Wikis
Create web content together
Bookmarks
Save, share, and discover bookmarks
Social
Stay in touch with your social network
Lotus Connections 2.5
The design team talks about how they created its exemplary user experience.
- The Collaboration Soapbox is a community for encouraging social software
- The Collaboration Soapbox community's bookmarks
- The Collaboration Soapbox blog
- IBM helps businesses build a Smarter Workforce through communities in the cloud (US)
- YouTube: The Man who should have used Lotus Connections
- YouTube: Lotus Connections 2.5 demo & overview
- Read more in the Library (US)
Product resources
- New book: Lotus Connections 2.5: Planning and Implementing Social Software for Your Enterprise
- Podcast: Extending Rational Jazz with IBM Lotus Connections (MP3, 00:09:44, 4.45MB)
- Article: "Getting into" social software - how IBM did it (US)
- Lotus Greenhouse: Where new ideas come to grow (US)


