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Interesting Enterprise 2.0 Event

Apr 11th, 2007
by Lou Paglia.
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Saw mention that there is a very interesting E2.0 event coming up in NYC. Two blogs I read often, Fast Forward and Andrew McAfee, both mentioned that a 24-hour Enterprise 2.0 Rave where topic leaders will getting together with early E2.0 practitioners. It is geared towards practitioners only and not for vendor pitch, even though I believe they will have slots where vendors or players in the space can have a few moments to show themselves. Professor McAfee speaks about it more in depth in his post.

Sounds like a fantastic idea for an event. The Enterprise 2.0 paradigm seems like a game changer but we’ve seen it before. The key again is going to be whether these new technologies such as blogs, wikis and other collaborative engines can ‘cross the chasm’ and get into the hearts and minds of the enterprise mainstream. That is what the entire event seems to be about, how to gain adoption, understand the pain points of roll-out and really isolate on the tough issues to make this work. Getting everyone together to discuss these issues is critical to get collective mind share on how to make these new tools work for organizations, not for the sake of technology but for the benefit of the organizations’ ROI.

[UPDATE: If anyone is interested in attending the event, use "bloggers" as the discount code during the registration process to get a $250 discount.]

Social bookmarking solutions for the Enterprise…

Apr 10th, 2007
by Lou Paglia.
6 comments

Social bookmarking for the enterprise has been getting a lot more attention as of late and something I’ve been keeping a keen eye on in my Enterprise 2.0 research. While the 2.0 paradigm and collective intelligence and collaboration is well on its way, the traction is the enterprise is just now gaining momentum…clearly following the “consumerization of technology” trend. More on the consumerization of technology in a later post.

The roll-out of blogs, wikis and other 2.0 collaborative tools, particularly social bookmarking tools, has been gaining steam. The premise is really leveraging the collective intelligence of an organization to empower the experts at all corners of the enterprise to be leverage points for the rest of organization. An interesting company that is really leveraging the power of connections, relationships and linkages is a valley-based start-up called Connectbeam, a company I first discovered during an interview on PodTech. Puneet Gupta, Connectbeam’s CEO, once referred to the company’s offering as “del.icio.us for the enterprise”, a very fitting description. One of my colleagues, Daniela Barbosa, has a good post on social bookmarking and also touches on early adopter, Honeywell, an early adopter of many E2.0 technologies.

Other players in the space that I am not as familiar include Cogenz, Trampoline Systems and en.terpri.se which is an offering recently launched out of BEA Systems. It definitely appears that Connectbeam has the early lead and it will be quite interesting to see how this industry develops and unfolds over the next 12 months.

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