It’s Wednesday night, the big two days of the Enterprise 2.0 conference are coming to an end. I’ve blogged a ton and shot a lot of video at the conference. The overall sentiment I’m getting from all the attendees and from all the sessions I’ve attended is that enterprise 2.0 is not there yet, but it’s going to happen, it’s inevitable. Here’s a summary of the top learnings from the conference:
- Young people entering the workforce communicate with Web 2.0 tools. They want more than just email.
- Cloud computing is an easy way to launch a service and scale, but it’s far from being a true utility like electricity.
- To innovate, you need to harness the wisdom of your network. First start with your staff and then move to partners and your audience.
- When you create a collaborate Enterprise 2.0 space, TRUST your audience. Release the desire to control. Don’t control. Even the CIA recommends this.
- Change management. Adoption requires evangelism and constant reminders and associating Web 2.0 tools with everything you’re doing.
- Don’t just deploy social media for the sake of deploying social media. Develop a strategic business rationale.
- There are tons of companies that offer business social networking solutions. Some are trying to offer everything, and some are just trying to solve a single problem.
- Allow people to engage with your company outside of your .com business address. Let them engage with your brand where they already like to go, like Facebook, MySpace, etc.
And here’s a summary of all my coverage from the event. It’s a total of 23 posts of which seven include video. Enjoy. :)
- Introducing Social Networking into your Enterprise
- Social Network Shoot Out
- VIDEO: Karen Appleton on why social networking is critical for business
- VIDEO: Peter Biddle, encryption will be like air bags
- Mashups: Best practices and best examples
- Successful enterprise-level wiki implementations
- Developing business rationales for an enterprise 2.0 strategy
- Drive business growth from the bottom up community development
- Creating a socialization plan for deploying social media in the Enterprise
- VIDEO: If the CIA can collaborate with Web 2.0 tools, so can you
- Making sense of the endless options for enterprise social networking
- Stowe Boyd’s post everything economy
- What blogging brings to business
- Innovation will be driven by the adoption of cloud computing
- Age doesn’t matter and other realizations for enterprise 2.0 culture
- FedEx makes its services accessible outside of FedEx.com
- From the bottom up: Building the 21st Century Intelligence Community
- VIDEO: Selipsky on the flexibility of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- VIDEO: Richard Soley of OMG is waiting for more cloud computing standards
- VIDEO: Schmoozing on the eve of Enterprise 2.0
- Move all your IT to the cloud: Cloud computing providers try to convince CXOs to take the plunge
- VIDEO: Enterprise 2.0 inspired CoreMedia to reignite communications and write a book
Thanks to Alex Dunne for supplying all the photos for many of the posts. Make sure you check out his entire Flickr feed.
This post is cross-posted from the Enterprise 2.0 Blog.
