<p>General manager of IBM social business Alistair Rennie kicked off the Connect 2013 Lotusphere symposium this week in what is the event's twentieth year.</p><p>After an 8am opening live music set by 'quirky popsters' They Might Be Giants, Rennie and his team spent time analysing the trends currently driving social business before bringing out IBM's latest product announcements in this zone.</p><p>IBM (as we shall detail below) is pushing forward in the social enterprise space as hard as it can which may appear unusual to some, given the firm's arguably more high profile heritage in servers, desktops and global consulting services.</p><p>That being said, Notes has been around for a while now connecting people - love it or hate it as you may.</p><p><a href="http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/cwdn/2013/01/what-social-enterprise-did-next.html">Keep reading...</a></p>