My developerWorks - the social network for developers of IBM
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DevelopersWorks is consulted habitually by more than 8 million developer and has received more than 47,000 visits to resources of cloud computing in the three last months. IBM has announced the incorporation of social software tools to the developer vestibule developersWorks, the main source of resources online of development for abiertos standards of IBM. My developerWorks, that is as the area of new functionalities is denominated, combines the best thing of social software with the resources of developerWorks.
The presented/displayed new features will allow the developers to accede in real time to technological updates, to connect themselves with other experts worldwide and to obtain essential knowledge with greater rapidity. The tool allows to form each profile adding contacts, contained favourites, and commentaries of forums, blogs and wikis. A recent survey was conducted between hundreds of developer worldwide to find out how they use the resources online. Almost three quarters of the survey ones admitted that they use forums, blogs, wikis and bulletins of Internet to increase their knowledge and to communicate with the friendly and near a 65% expressed their desire to use functionalities of social networks, like which they are in Facebook, Twitter and MySpace IBM has announced the incorporation of social software tools to the developer vestibule developersWorks, the main source of resources online of development for abiertos standards of IBM. My developerWorks, that is as the area of new functionalities is denominated, combines the best thing of social software with the resources of developerWorks.
The presented/displayed new features will allow the developers to accede in real time to technological updates, to connect themselves with other experts worldwide and to obtain essential knowledge with greater rapidity. The tool allows to form each profile adding contacts, contained favourites, and commentaries of forums, blogs and wikis. In the next months, the users of My developerWorks also will be able to use their profiles of social networks like Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, to extend their professional networks and to collaborate in new technologies. When being based on Lotus Connections, the technology of social software and enterprise collaboration of IBM, the members of developerWorks can accede now to the following functionalities:
 My home: It is a customized page that allows the user to follow its own activity and the activities of others by means of a control panel centralized.
 Technical networks to which it is acceded more easily to locate to other developers with similar opinions. In the space destined to commentaries online it is possible to make questions and to include answers.
 Technologies collaboration outposts: They allow the users to find people of whom they can learn and with that they can work looking for his profiles by key words, labels, location or name.
 Groups and activities that the user can create to facilitate the work in shared projects, organizing its ideas, assigning pending tasks and picking up commentaries. IBM recently realised a survey between hundreds of developer worldwide to find out how they use the resources online.
Almost three quarters of the survey ones admitted that they use forums, blogs, wikis and bulletins of Internet to increase their knowledge and to communicate with the friendly and near a 65% expressed their desire to use functionalities of social networks, like which they are in Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.
