N1005 IBM Research: Marie Wallace

<div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A social media maven whose dashboard can score your social engagement</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio7jcqzrWG0h_kj96eyqY7leBPkq05Sv-vNPBmeltgO2JPOA2kKAYfYCYPFIxWnjOSo3jA0sI-N20q9YpOHGR24-YXbL1eqpsq0ELfjm8H1S-mC8GdVp3dYjX7Er41uufxELRs1H2Qfo0/s1600/shiri.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio7jcqzrWG0h_kj96eyqY7leBPkq05Sv-vNPBmeltgO2JPOA2kKAYfYCYPFIxWnjOSo3jA0sI-N20q9YpOHGR24-YXbL1eqpsq0ELfjm8H1S-mC8GdVp3dYjX7Er41uufxELRs1H2Qfo0/s200/shiri.jpg" width="164" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shiri Kremer-Davidson</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Editor’s note: </span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=il-SHIRI"><i>Shiri Kremer-Davidson</i></a><i> is a specialist in graph-based social analytics at IBM Research - Haifa</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What do you do at IBM?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />I’m part of a cross organizational team that built the <a href="http://www.ibm.com/engage">Personal Social Dashboard.</a> It’s a pilot web application that provides employees with an engagement score along with insights on their individual social activity within the organization. It helps people understand how their activity is being consumed and how they are perceived by their colleagues – something we generally are unaware of.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I lead the engagement analytics that produce the resulting scores and evidence shown in the application. With new studies showing how important it is to raise the level of employee engagement inside the enterprise, it’s crucial to have a way to let employees and managers know how they’re doing.</span><br /><a name="more"></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Why is this project interesting for you?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For me, this is a fascinating journey into learning how IBMers socially engage and how they use our internal social network, IBM <a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/conn">Connections</a>. I was also keen on identifying success stories and extracting personalized recommendations on how people can grow their voice inside the enterprise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you’re motivated to increase your digital presence, the dashboard gives you feedback on how people are reacting to you and what you’re sharing. It helps you see whether you’re on the right track.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Personally, I wasn’t publicly active enough on social media before this project. This tool is also helping me increase my social presence within IBM. </span><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What insights did you discover as part of creating this tool?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We had a client engagement this year with a large European bank where we deployed the dashboard. We wanted to help in areas such as: increase adoption of Connections; provide input for organizational changes; get an indication of the collaboration across and between different divisions.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Using the dashboard’s analytics along with an enterprise graph, we found: how and what different divisions are interacting and the strength of those connections; how information flows within the organization; who are the primary influencers and brokers within and between the organizations, and more.</span><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><br /><br /><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">How did this dashboard get started?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It all started with a project called <i>Breadcrumbs, </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">led </span>by Analytics Strategist</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://allthingsanalytics.com/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Marie Wallace</span></a>. We built an enterprise graph over all the social activities done on <a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/conn">Connections</a> inside IBM. It included historic and current data for hundreds of thousands of employees. We also built a Big Data infrastructure that would allow us to perform a wide range of analytics over it. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What were you looking for, initially?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">First, we started looking at how social activity patterns over time can serve as a clue for who is staying and who might be leaving the company. Next, we began working with the CIO to develop a solution that could empower employees with knowledge on their social eminence, and guide them on how to improve it. In parallel, we wanted to help management understand how their employees engage socially – but without exploiting the privacy of employees.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Since I had done <a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2531667">research on social reputation</a><span class="MsoHyperlink">,</span> the idea of incorporating my experience into such a social engagement dashboard was intriguing. It was fun working together with teams across IBM. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">How does your dashboard measure social eminence?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The dashboard gives you four scores: Activity, Reaction, Eminence, and Network. All scores are relative inside the organization.</span></div><ul><li><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Activity</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">is a score that goes up or down depending on how active you are.</span></li><li><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Reaction</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">on your content takes into account likes, reads, shares, comments, and so on. </span></li><li><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Eminence</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">reflects the amount of people trying to interact with you and your content – following you, sharing files with you, etc. </span></li><li><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Network</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">scoring indicates how many followers and colleagues you have. </span></li></ul><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8yYO-dsg5YqySDnJn9ut8brog1Wu-91ssD4tHAjH6AhtPOLV_s25D28VBypVpXx-beUFWPPNQBI9bxr7RQxRDUSRi4UDoD6Ndin5BmK3QpL0BwCEzzfZ-mzc-DyzfAidnmS8Bsa9LT7s/s1600/dashboard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8yYO-dsg5YqySDnJn9ut8brog1Wu-91ssD4tHAjH6AhtPOLV_s25D28VBypVpXx-beUFWPPNQBI9bxr7RQxRDUSRi4UDoD6Ndin5BmK3QpL0BwCEzzfZ-mzc-DyzfAidnmS8Bsa9LT7s/s400/dashboard.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Capture of my page in the Personal Social Dashboard</td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The dashboard scores are periodically refreshed and we improve the algorithms regularly. Ultimately, we’d like to add personalized recommendations to guide employees on how to raise their eminence and how to make their voice more prominent inside the organization.</span><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><br /><br /><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What are your future plans?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We are getting a lot of positive feedback for the pilot. Employees feel that it is helping them understand their social presence and increase their voice in the enterprise. Our pilot currently has more than 9,000 users and is rapidly growing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the future we plan to integrate additional data sets into the tool and add features our user community finds important such as personalized recommendations.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Find more information <a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/ebusiness/jstart/sna/">on IBM JStart</a> and on <a href="http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=il-SHIRI">Shiri’s web page</a>. </span></i></div>

Meet IBM researcher Shiri Kremer-Davidson

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