IBM to launch social networking center

I see IBM are working with Dow Jones and Thomson Reuters’ healthcare arm on a new web 2.0 software center in the US. Nice, I used to work with Thomson Reuters’ healthcare arm in the UK (with the affable Jeremy Snelling) and talked with them on improving their data feed for Medicexchange.com. Now I’m working in the finance sector through the ICAEW on ION, the social networking community. All pretty interesting from a business viewpoint for my part, + a nice coincidence from a nerd standpoint.

Office 2.0 Conference ION case study

“Can organizations build web communities with predictable success?  This workshop calls on our experiences of building ion (the institute online network) — the award winning collection of web based communities for the ICAEW member network — as well as other communities powered by WordFrame, and the available research material.  The Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales is the UK’s largest professional membership organization for accountants in the UK.  In the workshop we use this case study, combined with direct experiences to provide a set of guidelines to help you start and manage a successful and sustainable web community.”