Planet Enterprise 2.0

As blogging moves into the enterprise, one of the biggest questions managers face is whether to monitor the sites, and if so, how much. They can look to the consumer world for cues. Personal blogs (one person sharing his thoughts on his life, or perhaps a more specific topic) are monitored by the blogger directly; [...]

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I recently learned of an interesting tool for schools and their students, called Web Lockers. According to the vendor, students “can use the lockers to upload homework assignments and projects, send and receive assignments, view graded work, and communicate with teachers and classmates outside of the classroom. For added collaboration, School Web Lockers also provides teacher [...]

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When Microsoft first released Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007), it touted the platform advantages of its embedded social computing capabilities (i.e., blogs, wikis, RSS, social networking). In fact, the company at the time was brimming with confidence that SharePoint’s social computing features were as good as anything offered by best-of-breed vendors. Reality slowly [...]

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There are some very cool apps that live in the cloud, but the ones that impact enterprise work flow are the ones with serious prospects of longevity and financial gain. It’s not enough, however, to create singular and separate business applications that are delivered via the cloud. On top of functionality and a high quality [...]

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In yet another “Web 2.0 meets telephony” moment the folks from Iotum have launched “Calliflower”, a Facebook-based application for conference calling.  Calliflower provides an ability for an organization to host public or private conference calls, with back-channels for participants such as the ability to chat and see Facebook profiles of others on the call, as [...]

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I had a great chat with Socialtext’s co-founder Ross Mayfield this week, and he highlighted a few interesting facts about wiki implementations. Notably, he says that wikis fail in the enterprise if they are imposed by IT, rather than by business groups. This is not surprising, but it’s required the company to think hard about [...]

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John Dvorak hosts a weekly web show called Cranky Geeks that this week included a lively discussion around the merits of Enterprise 2.0.   Panel guests were Sebastian Rupley from PCMagCast.com, Dan Goodin with The Register and tech journalist David Spark.  The segment was pretty short but it quickly got to some of the key [...]

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I heard this bold statement from Mark Trang as he spoke to the Santa Clara Tour de Force audience about the seven crucial ingredients an up-and-coming SaaS company must deploy. Citing his White Paper entitled ‘The 7 Secrets of SaaS Startup Success’, Mark walked us through how Salesforce.com has utilized these steps to create a [...]

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I’ve been a bit behind in posting over the last few days, the reason is that last Thursday my laptop completely crashed (the dreaded “Blue screen of death”), all attempts at recovery failed, and the end result was a new machine.  Fortunately, most of my data and applications reside in “the cloud”, the latest buzz-word [...]

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A recent article in New York Magazine wonders how GPS tracking will change our lives–suddenly, it seems, everyone will know where we are and what we’re doing. But really, is this so much different from how life used to be, back in the days before modern technology? In small towns, everyone already knows where you are [...]

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I wanted to share some background information on the tutorial presented at the recent Enterprise 2.0 conference. Specifically, the tutorial I moderated on Monday that featured IBM and Microsoft. Background I have been on the Advisory Board of the Enterprise 2.0 conference for a while now (which has given me the opportunity to work with some pretty [...]

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An interesting site called SkyLounge is aimed at helping business travelers connect with co-workers and colleagues when they’re on the road. Lounges can be business specific (the American Airlines Crew Lounge lets flight attendants and pilots see who’s working which flights) or provide more general info for employees at specific companies (Acme Lounge lets employees post what [...]

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Forrester Analyst Jeremiah Owyang is collecting a list of social computing strategists and community managers from large enterprise companies - as in Fortune 5000.  Jeremiah blogged and tweeted the call for submissions for this vetted list of the who’s who of Enterprise 2.0 from large corporations. His list already includes representatives from Wells Fargo, Intel, [...]

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Susan Scrupski of ITSinsider wrote an interesting post about the influx of GenYers into the corporate world and the resulting culture clash that may ensue. The issue of generational disparity has been widely discussed by business visionary and author Don Tapscott who has raised not only the challenge of this cultural clash, but also the [...]

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Tandberg and HP have announced they’re deepening the interoperablility between traditional video conferencing and telepresence. In a press release today, the companies note That HP will expand its support for all video conferencing solutions on the HP Halo Video Exchange Network, while at the same time develop more telepresence solutions; and Tandberg will develop more [...]

I got to spend about a day and a half last week at Enterprise 2.0.  Overall I was impressed with the energy of the event.  I sat in on a couple of sessions (well, stood in was more like it as many sessions were SRO), and I had the opportunity to moderate sessions on Facebook [...]

It has been a long while since I’ve seen a new product that has completely blown me away, but tonight I saw just such a beast.  At the Oracle booth here at Enterprise 2.0 I had a chance to get a short look at Oracle’s “Social CRM” applications built on top of Oracle Fusion Middleware.  [...]

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 the last session of Wednesday, I have absolutely no idea what this session is about, but with a title like “Social Network Shoot Out,” I’m hoping there’s going to be some arguing and maybe some pushing and shoving. Participants in the shoot out include: Moderator Matthew Lees, Analyst Rob Howard of Telligent Systems Sam Lawrence of Jive Software Aaron [...]

Yesterday, Don Burke and Sean Dennehy from the CIA told the story of implementing the Intellipedia, the intelligence industry’s social network (watch the video). Today, Simon Revell, Manager of Enterprise 2.0 Technology Development, Information and Knowledge Management at Pfizer told his tale of implementing Web 2.0 tools at his company. Revell’s said Pfizer’s first attempt at [...]