IBM Design Leadership

IBM World Usability Day Webcast:“

Social Media in the Workplace”

Karel VredenburgDirectorIBM User Experience Design

IBM Design Leadership

Welcome and introduction –Karel Vredenburg

Karel Vredenburg is the director of IBM User Experience Design and is responsible for driving the visual and interaction/userexperience design of IBM software, hardware, websites, and services. Karel leads the development of IBM's user experiencedesign processes, methods, assets, and tools and their deployment company-wide, and also IBM's team of design and userexperience practitioners.

Agenda

A world without email: Thinking outside the inbox -Luis Suarez Rodriguez

Luis Suarez Rodriguez has been working for IBM for 13 years. In that time he's specialized in Knowledge Management,Collaboration, Community Building, and in the last 8 years, Web 2.0 and Social Computing (Enterprise 2.0). He's currentlyworking as a KMer, CommunityBuilder & Social Computing evangelist helping to accelerate the adoption rate of socialsoftware within IBM. Over 2.5 years ago, he started an experiment about ditching corporate email in favor of social softwareto collaborate and share knowledge. Details on his experiment can be found athttp://www.elsua.net/tag/a-world-without-email/ , through a NY Times article published recently (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/jobs/29pre.html), or this Mashable articlehttp://mashable.com/2010/09/03/world-without-email/ .

IBM Lotus Connections demo –Ethan Perry

Ethan Perry is a Senior Product Designer, leading the LotusLive and Lotus Connections User Experience teams. Ethan hasalso designed the user interface for IBM application development tools. Before joining IBM, Ethan was a researcher at theMIT Media Lab in the Sociable Media Group. Ethan will provide a demo of IBM Lotus Connections software and itscollaboration and social media features.

Social media in the IBM UXD Community –Velda Bartek

Velda Bartek is a Senior User Experience Designer working on IBM's collaboration and social software. She has initiated anumber of global user partnership programs making use of social media to recruit and work with customers and potentialcustomers. Velda will describe how the IBM UXD Community leverages social media to collaborate with customers and otherIBMers during the design and development process. Learn how you can use social media to follow and participate in IBM'sUser Experience Design programs.

Length inminutes

20302020