OCT
15
2008
The Center in the news
On September 17th we announced the Center for Social Software. Here's what the press - local and national - had to say about the center:
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Boston Globe: Cambridge IBM facility to focus on social links
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"The folks at this IBM center have some very interesting tools to support collaborative views of what's going on," said Thomson-Reuters Healthcare senior vice president William Marder. "The nice part of this center is the potential to interact with some world-class smart people." - Boston Business Journal: New IBM center to focus on social software link
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Xconomy: IBM Opens Social Software Research Center in Cambridge
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"... we're talking about social software, not social networking. We are seeing a real change from people using social software in who knows whom, and how people find people. ... A lot of what our research is about is understanding the broad impact of this category of software." -
eWeek: IBM to Unveil Social Software Center at Interop
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"We're going to be more focused on explicitly taking on projects that will change our route to market, that will help us work more closely with Lotus, but also develop paths to our own internal deployments that will keep us at the leading edge of social software," Greif said. -
Network World: IBM to launch social networking center
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"We're going to be more focused on explicitly taking on projects that will change our route to market, that will help us work more closely with Lotus, but also develop paths to our own internal deployments that will keep us at the leading edge of social software," Greif said. -
PC World: IBM Launches Social Software Think Tank
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"The next generation of Web tools has the potential to significantly enhance our ability to understand and communicate what is happening to patients in the real world," said William Marder, senior VP for for research at Thomson Reuters' healthcare unit.