Hey everyone, the goal for the site is to create a social network for SOA, try to integrate with other networks and not re-invent the wheel but provide a place that extends existing networks with an SOA-specific playground so to speak. IBM is fully behind making this happen.
Right now it's not quite close to a social network, and this week was a soft-launch with larger promotions starting soon. Today, the site does offer an activity feed where we have some SOA experts contributing socially interesting 'activities' in a facebook style to the site. We are always looking for more, and the activities are completely vendor neutral so feel free to get in touch if you want us to announce something, or if you're even interested in joining part time for a paid-social writing opportunity. Also right now we have some interesting polls up on the site that you may want to vote on: Is <http://soasocial.com/apps/polls/view.action?id=6> Service Reuse living up to its promises? Do <http://soasocial.com/apps/polls/view.action?id=5> you think Governance is a central factor in the success of a strategic SOA project? Is <http://soasocial.com/apps/polls/view.action?id=4> BPM a key ingredient of your SOA? Do <http://soasocial.com/apps/polls/view.action?id=2> you pronounce SOA as "S-Oh-Ay" or "So-Uh"? Feel free to participate or even submit more polls! J Floyd From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gervas Douglas Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 1:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [service-orientated-architecture] New SOA Social Network SOA Social is a new social network which has just been launched by InfoQ. It is sponsored by IBM but is not vendor-specific. I have been kindly recruited to contribute to the news feed. You can find it at: http://www.soasocial.com/ I have just set up a Facebook Group to act as a forum/connection to SOA Social. You can find this at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=29200433700#/group.php?gid=29200433700 If you wish to send me news, ideas etc. (including relevant product launches and events) for SOA Social, just send me an e-mail. I cannot promise to include all contributions. Floyd Marinescu runs SOA Social and I am sure he will be happy to answer your queries. Gervas
