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We saw in the Twitter stream yesterday a slide for IBM's new social business tool kit that is being unveiied today at Lotusphere. The details are bare but you can see how social business will take center stage this week at the annual event.

The social tool kit is a developer play as pointed out by RedMonk's James Governor in a recent post. IBM is a heavy adopter of social technologies that have been developed in consumer, social technologies. Developing a tool kit is a smart, natural step and a necessary one for IBM. Getting beyond the image of a legacy technology still dogs Lotus. IBM needs developers in order to make the mind shift with customers that Lotus is a platform more than a network of apps.