IBM Lotus Connections is social software for business. It empowers business professionals to develop, nurture, and remain in contact with a network of their colleagues; respond quickly to business opportunities by calling upon the expertise in their network; and discuss and refine new creative ideas with communities of coworkers, partners, and customers.

Communities: Create, find, join, and work with people

• Collaborate with community members using activities, blogs, wikis, and file sharing
• Customize the community 
• View statistics on discussion forum usage and highlight important topics by pinning them for the community

Files: Personal file-sharing service

• Upload files and securely share them with others
• Tag files so they can be easily located
• Add recommendations and comments
• Reduce inbox "bloat"

Wikis: Allows you and your teams to collaboratively edit content

• Create wiki pages; enter and edit content
• Compare wiki page versions to see what was changed
• Subscribe to wiki pages to be notified of changes
• Comment on pages

Profiles: Quickly find the people and expertise you need

• Post a status message informing your network of what you are doing
• Locate people and expertise using a tag cloud
• Post messages for your colleagues on their profile page

Blogs: Present your ideas in a Weblog and get feedback from others

• Create a blog for use by the members of a community
• Embed a video in a blog posting to make it available to readers

Bookmarks: Save, organize, and share bookmarks using social bookmarking

• Import and export bookmarks from and to a browser

Activities: Gather e-mails, IM chats, documents, messages, and other information that you need to accomplish a business objective

• Create an activity for use by the members of a community