For a number of months I see articles by IBM popping up covering social networking. Unfortunatly they are all about Lotus and social networking. In 1999 I used Lotus (and I disliked it). Anyway here is a presentation from the IBM social evangelist
Wetpaint the social publishing platform with a network of over 750,000 social sites, today unveiled a complete set of social networking features to supercharge creation of content on its award-winning wiki service that now unifies the two things people love to do online – socialize and share content with others.With the addition of such new features as a Friends Network, Custom Member Profiles, a What’s New site activity dashboard and Friends Feeds,Wetpaint has created the first truly integrated social publishing platform, empowering anyone to easily create a completely social and collaborative website.“At its essence, online collaboration is a social experience, but on most wikis that aspect has been limited to hidden discussion pages – it’s the equivalent of a cocktail party where no one talks to each other,” said Ben Elowitz, CEO of Wetpaint. “By adding a social dimension to Wetpaint, users are more likely to interact and engage with each other – interaction being the key driver to generating content that has lasting value to not only themselves but a wider reading audience.