Today's New York Times reports that IBM is entering the enterprise 2.0 market with a social networking suite called Lotus Connections.

Lotus Connections has five components — activities, communities, dogear (a bookmarking system), profiles and blogs — aimed at helping experts within a company connect and build new relationships based on their individual needs…..The profiles component, for example, lets users search for people by name, expertise or keyword. The program then not only provides contact information and reporting structure details, but also lists blogs, communities, activities and bookmarks associated with the person.

This is a very powerful validation of the need for and value of these tools inside the enterprise. Later today I will be posting my interview with Professor Andrew McAfee at HBS where we talk about the managment and culture side of enterprise 2.0. Stay tuned.

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