Australian Bureau of Statistics uses IBM Social Software

Suzanne Livingston  August 20 2010 03:46:29 PM

This week, IBM announced the Australian Bureau of Statistics' use of IBM Lotus Connections software to help its 3,000+ employees collaborate.   In addition top national daily paper The Australian among others featured the news:

The offices of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) have been decked out with wikis, blogs and instant messaging after the agency deployed a social-media platform for its 3200 staff. --ZDNet (link)

The organisation has announced that is adopting IBM social software to support the way thousands of employees connect and interact. ... "With Lotus Connections, ABS can use business-grade social software, straight out of the box." -- Government News (link)

the department’s chief of technology infrastructure, Duncan Young, found that, while the implementation started off as normal in the ABS technology e-division, it had become one of the easiest rollouts so far, thanks to enthusiasm amongst staff.  .... “It’s probably the first one I’ve seen that’s been taken up in a viral type fashion.” --Computerworld (link)

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