Mapping Professional Networks
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IBM's Atlas tool aims to help businesses visualize connections between colleagues.
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For business or pleasure? Reg Technology Panel Over the past two or three years, zanily named social networking tools such as Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Flickr and Twitter seem to have come from nowhere to wheedle their way into just about every aspect of online life, both in business and pleasure. Such facilities share a handful of simple, but powerful core features: each will enable information sharing of some form, will have some kind of community orientation and will be constructed in a way that several of the blighters can be merged (or should I say, âmashed upâ) into clever, multifaceted concoctions of collaborative capability.â¦
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Readers offer their own ideas on what should be included in a list of dead or dying skills for IT professionals.
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How the right tools can create a solid search strategy.
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By measuring the number of contacts people have in their online address books, Plaxo Inc. has come up with a list of the most "connected" jobs in the U.S. Talent agents top the list.
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Imagining hundreds of outage-related micro-dramas unfolding simultaneously.
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Grid architecture aims to protect corporate networks from interior security threats.
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A formula for Web schemes: a lot of mathematicians, a lax legal system and Western targets.
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As the job market heats up, interest in online business networking is starting to soar - turning a one-time novelty into a necessity for millions of business professionals in search of jobs or business contacts.
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IBM released Atlas, a software toolset that provides advanced search and analysis functions for its enterprise social networking product, Lotus Connections, on Tuesday.&quot;Atlas looks at the data within Connections and does some visualizations of the information,&quot; said Chris Lamb, senior product manager. &quot;The main point is that it is a way to visualize the social data from a line-of-business perspective and a personal level.&quot;The Atlas suite contains four components dubbed My Net, Find, Reach, and Net.The Net component provides a view of groups that have formed within an organization due to work on similar projects, IBM said. The point is to help users find ways to improve communications among various nodes throughout the company. My Net provides a similar view but focuses on a user&#39;s personal network.Atlas also includes Reach, a dashboard-like tool that helps users &quot;navigate the six degrees of separation that divide them from a colleague,&quot; as an IBM statement describes. The purpose is to help workers more quickly connect with people in the organization who have a particular skill set or area of knowledge.The last component is Find, which can provide search results that leverage social networking-related data, such as blogs and reporting structures, according to IBM.Atlas and Lotus Connections fit into an ambitious push by IBM around social collaboration in enterprises.A growing number of people use multiple networks and would like to easily move their profile data between them. Without providing specifics, Lamb said IBM is moving to address the problem.&quot;That&#39;s something that we&#39;re looking at, how we aggregate that,&quot; he said. &quot;There will be some announcements around the Lotusphere time frame.&quot; Lotusphere is scheduled for Jan. 20-24 in Orlando, Florida.IBM is selling Atlas through its Software Services for Lotus group. Lamb declined to provide specific pricing information.
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New site doses social networking with literate lists. Plus: Is
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Networking provider upgrades a slew of products so large companies can better connect their workers.
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A vast online network is being used to promote social and environmental responsibility.
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A collection of sites with first-person accounts and photos
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Just when many have mastered the art of handing out your business card,  along comes another way to make connections - professional networking  online.
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Practical tools for assessing who is worth doing business with--and who isn't.