Enterprise 2.0 Conf: Successful enterprise-level wiki implementations

June 13, 2008

What does it take to pull off a successful wiki? Jeffrey Walker of Atlassian and Linda Skrocki, Sr. Enginering Program Manager for Blogs, Wikis, and Forums at Sun Microsystems showed examples of successful enterprise-level wikis plus offered advice on how to pull off a successful wiki in your enterprise. First, some examples of successful wikis: […]

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Enterprise 2.0 Conf: Developing business rationales for an enterprise 2.0 strategy

June 13, 2008

As evidenced by the previous session “Social Networking and the Enterprise” (see post), many businesses can’t articulate the business reasons as to why they should be involved in social networking, yet they’re doing it or want to. There just seems to be a lot of pressure to be in social networking and it’s the “thing […]

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Enterprise 2.0 Conf: Drive business growth from the bottom up community development

June 13, 2008

The hierarchical nature of corporations is antithetical to the collaborative nature of bottom-up social networking. That was the theme of the session “Power to the People: Drive Business Innovation through Collaboration,” led by Mark Woollen, VP Social CRM at Oracle. The three factors of urgency, fragmentation, and engagement are driving enterprise 2.0, said Woollen. The […]

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Enterprise 2.0 Conf: Creating a socialization plan for deploying social media in the Enterprise

June 13, 2008

What’s the business value of social networking? What do you want to accomplish by deploying it? And how do you get people to use Web 2.0 tools within the enterprise. This is just a few of the questions posed by moderator Chris Brogan, Vice President, Strategy & Technology, CrossTechMedia and the audience to the panel […]

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VIDEO: Enterprise 2.0 Conf: If the CIA can collaborate with Web 2.0 tools, so can you

June 10, 2008

Having trouble trying to sell in Web 2.0-style collaboration to the higher ups in your enterprise organization? Are there VPs and CXOs that are shying away from wiki-style knowledge management because they don’t get it or they fear confidential information will be passed carelessly among employees and partners? Do they feel that the information is […]

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Enterprise 2.0 Conf: Making sense of the endless options for enterprise social networking

June 10, 2008

I went down to the demo floor at Enterprise 2.0 to talk with some of the Enterprise 2.0 providers. Many of the companies offer very similar services in internal company knowledge management and social networking. My head started spinning as I looked at them all. My question for most of them was, “What makes you […]

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Enterprise 2.0 Conf: Stowe Boyd's post everything economy

June 10, 2008

Stowe Boyd’s presentation “Web Culture, and the New Ethos of Work” was a mishmash of different ideas. I didn’t know how to summarize it, so here’s just a quick list of different ideas that came up in the presentation: Global village is an amplification of what’s in our mind. The Web is the most obvious […]

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Enterprise 2.0 Conf: What blogging brings to business

June 10, 2008

Moderator, Jessica Lipnack, and panelists/blogger Patti Anklam, Doug Cornelius, Cesar Brea, and Bill Ives introduced a PowerPoint presentation-free discussion about what blogging brings to businesses. In a desire to immediately create community, Lipnack asked all the bloggers in the overflowing room to stand up, identify themselves, plus mention their blog. I made sure to stand […]

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Enterprise 2.0 Conf: Innovation will be driven by the adoption of cloud computing

June 10, 2008

In his presentation entitled “Working in the Cloud: How Cloud Computing is Reshaping Enterprise Technology,” Rishi Chandra, Product Manager for Google Enterprise discussed why he believes cloud computing will drive innovation for the next generation of enterprise computing. The pace will be set by consumer driven innovation, the early adopters of cloud computing. Traditionally, consumers […]

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Enterprise 2.0 Conf: Age doesn't matter and other realizations for enterprise 2.0 culture

June 10, 2008

Dan Keldsen and Carl Frappaolo, of AIIM, opened their enterprise 2.0 presentation with a comedy routine of boomers’ and millenials’ view of enterprise 2.0. Their goal wasn’t to make us laugh, thankfully, but rather to enlighten us the state of enterprise 2.0 with a summary of a study they just completed entitled “Enterprise 2.0: Agile, […]

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