{"id":1743,"date":"2009-10-30T05:45:41","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T12:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2010-05-12T15:28:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T22:28:53","slug":"big-blues-social-media-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/big-blues-social-media-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Blue&#8217;s Social Media Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 9px; margin-right: 9px;\" title=\"Adam Christensen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.btobonline.com\/graphics\/breakfast-heads\/adam_christensen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"71\" height=\"102\" \/>From yesterday&#8217;s <em>BtoB<\/em> magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.btobonline.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/section?category=netmarketing_fall2009#NY%23seenit\">NetMarketing Breakfast<\/a> in New York, here are some facts and figures from Adam Christensen<strong>, <\/strong>Social Media Communications Manager at IBM, about Big Blue&#8217;s use of social media tools:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Internal blogs: 17,000<\/li>\n<li>Members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/domino.watson.ibm.com\/cambridge\/research.nsf\/0\/8b6d4cd68fc12b52852573d1005cc0fc?OpenDocument\">Beehive<\/a> social network: 60,000<\/li>\n<li>Daily page views on IBM&#8217;s internal wiki: 1,000,000<\/li>\n<li>Participants in its four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collaborationjam.com\/\">Innovation Jams<\/a>: 500,000<\/li>\n<li>IBMers on Twitter: 3,000<\/li>\n<li>IBMers on Facebook: 52,000<\/li>\n<li>IBMers on LinkedIn: 198,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For a company with 400,000 employees, those numbers are pretty impressive. They&#8217;re all the more remarkable when you consider that, 20 years ago, IBM had one of the most buttoned down command-and-control cultures of any company on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Adam works on strategy and standards for IBM&#8217;s global social media activities. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamClyde\">Follow him on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From yesterday&#8217;s BtoB magazine NetMarketing Breakfast in New York, here are some facts and figures from Adam Christensen, Social Media Communications Manager at IBM, about Big Blue&#8217;s use of social media tools: Internal blogs: 17,000 Members of the Beehive social &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/big-blues-social-media-numbers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[5,6,12,25,31],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-s7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1745,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}