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IBM’s Global EcoJam analysed!

by Tom Raftery on February 3, 2010 · 2 comments

in IBM

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I participated in last week’s IBM Global Eco Jam.
As you can see from above, the event generated 2080 posts from a total of 3987 logins.
I mentioned previously that the quality of the participants in the jam was really impressive, but what were attendees most interested in talking about during the jam?
The [...]

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IBM Global Eco-Efficiency Jam Day 2

by Tom Raftery on January 29, 2010 · 6 comments

in IBM

Today is the final day of IBM’s Global Eco-efficiency Jam (it finishes at 6pm CET today) and it has been awesome.
There have been hundreds of discussions on all manner of Eco-related topics – everything from LEED certification, to Green software engineering, to Energy Efficiency certificates to Smart cities and collaboration.
People have been asking questions like:
If [...]

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IBM Eco Jam – 1 day in!

by Tom Raftery on January 28, 2010 · 5 comments

in IBM

Well, the IBM Global Eco Jam has been underway nearly 24 hours at this point – how is it going?
It has been incredibly active, I have to say. You can see from the screenshot I took earlier this morning that the number of posts was 987 at that point – I just checked now and [...]

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IBM Eco Jam kicks off later today with an impressive line-up

by Tom Raftery on January 27, 2010 · 7 comments

in IBM

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The IBM Global Eco Efficiency Jam kicks off this afternoon (January 27th) at 9am EST (14:00 GMT, 15:00 here in CEST) and continues right on through until Friday afternoon.
According to the IBM site the Jam is
a web-based event which will provide an unrivalled opportunity for thousands of public and private sector sustainability [...]

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Guest Post: On Water and The Climate Ahead

by monkchips on April 24, 2008 · 0 comments

in IBM, SMB

One of Greenmonk’s core beliefs is that the private sector is making all the running when it comes to long term sustainability thinking, so I was very interested to hear about a conference last week in which water utilities were meeting other stakeholders to discuss climate change related issues. Cortland Coleman was there and very [...]

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Thoughts on Green SOA: a work in progress

by monkchips on April 9, 2008 · 4 comments

in IBM, IT, footprint, global warming

Yesterday at IBM’s SOA Impact 2008 show in Las Vegas (my favorite eco-city) I gave my Green SOA stump pitch. Its still a work in progress, and fortunately perhaps the number of delegates was pretty low. SOA for Dummies across the hall on the other hand was packed.
What is service oriented architecture, and why is [...]

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