Others have said it. I have said it before. It's true. It's undeniable. You really can't get away from it. The power that it simply has is ..... undescribable. "It freaks me out sometimes", as a co-worker says. How powerful is Lotus Connections? Well here's another story that just happened minutes ago.
9:00am - My work day starts and I have 23 new emails. Not bad. (this should not be considerd as an excuse for you to start emailing me overnight :) )
9:10am - One of the emails is from Ted Stanton, Product Manager for Lotus Connections. In it he expresses the need to capture recommendations for possible IBM Redbooks on Lotus Connections.
9:11am - I start composing an email to the community
9:24am - I send an email to the community relaying Ted's message
10:30am - Barely 66 minutes after my email went out, I had already received 4 different responses!! 3 of them from people in Europe. AND all responses were from people that I hadn't had an interaction before.
So I'm assuming our Asian counterparts are already in their comfy bed and won't see my email until tomorrow morning. And for the ones in the Americas? They are probably still parsing through their new email from last night and will soon get back to me.
As I was writing this blog posting, my RSS reader (Google Desktop) notified me that Curtis Ryan, WW Sales Manager for Lotus Connections and co-leader for the Lotus Social Software community, had just written about Communities in the Enterprise. Communities is making a splash today!
Social Software ROCKS!