Networks, Complexity, and Relatedness

Networks, Complexity, and Relatedness
Inquiry and learning into social networks, organizational network analysis, and the relationships among people and systems in complex organizations and networks.

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Atlast, there's Atlas

Big news from IBM's announcement of its Connections Suite, and that is the availability of Atlas, a corporate social networking and visualization tool. IBMer Ed Brill shows an illustrated example of the map of expertise in Lotus Notes using the "Net" component. Other components:

Reach, a Visible Path-like application that helps people navigate the degrees of separation to an expert they might want to connect to.
Find, an expertise locater that uses data from corporate blogs, organization charts, and communities to help identify experts in a particular area

Atlas complements the other applications in the Connections Suite, which has integrated blogs, social bookmarking, communities, and user profiles.

If I were in a corporation, it's exactly what I would want. It won't be long before it will be what users inside large corporations will expect.

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