Lotus Wants to Know What You Know

For a number of years, IBM has held numerous "jams" to elicit input and ideas across a garden variety of initiatives.

In one, IBMers from around the globe reinvented the core values of the company to better reflect our participation as an information technology provider in the 21st century.

In another, we IBMers came together across time zones and from around the globe to decide where we wanted to spend our good money for what we collectively agreed would be future business opportunities (by way of example, this was how IBM's very progressive and forward-thinking "virtual worlds" investment got a huge shot in the arm).

So, I'm very happy to see this crowdsourcing approach to idea generation move into that most logical of arenas, our Lotus line of business.

You may know Lotus Notes as the primary delivery vehicle for IBM email and collaboration, but what you don't know, and what Lotus Knows, is that there's a whole new world of opportunity and development in the social software collaboration space that we need your help to define.

We want to hear your ideas, so as we continue to reshape the Lotus software portfolio, we're doing so in a manner that best befits the opportunity and promise of crowdsourcing, and allow us to be a truly customer-driven organization.

In short, your ideas have the opportunity to become our products... but only if participate.

Visit the Lotus Knows IdeaJam... You've got three days to tell us what you know that Lotus needs to know.