Wednesday Septemer 17, we held a Future Workspaces workshop on Enterprise Social Software. Around 25 people from a broad range of organizations joined the workshop. We started of with an impressive showcase by our host, Erik Krischan (IBM), on the social tools they are using. My “yes, can we have that too, please“-moment was when he demonstrated their Intranet search: while searching for a specific topic, the system also shows the experts on the topic within the company, your social path (friend-of-a-friend) to that expert, relevant communities and of course the relevant information assets. After that presentation, Mireille Jansma (ING) gave us a brief impression of the issues people face in a less technology-minded setting when trying to introduce enterprise social software: a very good way to get us back on our feet to the reality of typical enterprise environments. (more…)