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Watch Entire Show: www.youtube.com More Shows: www.youtube.com Episode 4 of James Burke’s most well-known series “Connections” which explores the surprising and unexpected ways that our modern technological world came into existence. Each episode investigates the background of usually one particular modern invention and how it came into being. These explorations are an attempt to locate the “connections” between various historical figures who seemingly had nothing to do with each other in their own times, however once connected, these same figures combined to produce some of the most profound impacts on our modern day world; in a “1+1=3″ type of way. It is this type of investigation that is the main idea behind the Knowledge Web project; whereby sophisticated software is used to attempt to discover these subtle interconnections automatically. See k-web.org. See channel page for purchase options.

This video is a demonstration of some of the services within IBM Lotus Connections. Connections is social networking software that consists of five services – Activities, Blogs, Communities, Dogear, and Profiles. In this video, you will view a demonstration of the Profiles service.Here is some background on all the services:Activities are collaboration tools for collecting, organizing, sharing, and reusing work that is related to a goal.Blogs are online journals that you can use to deliver timely information with a personal touch.Communities are sites that you create so that people who share a common interest can interact with one another and share resources.Dogear is a social bookmarking tool that you can use to save, organize, and share Internet and intranet bookmarks. Profiles show an online directory of the people in your organization that includes the information you need to form and encourage effective networks.

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