Enterprise 2.0

Hot on the heels of Ross Dawson’s Enterprise 2.0 Executive Roundtable report comes “the first major market study of Enterprise 2.0″ from the AIIM Market Intelligence group.
Three key findings emerge, we are told:

A majority of organisations position Enterprise 2.0 as critical or important to business goals and objectives
Few organisations have a clear understanding of Enterprise [...]

Ross Dawson has just made a report from the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Roundtable available as a free download.
It’s a write up of an event which saw a handful of senior Australian executives discussing Enterprise 2.0 and its implications and potential for large organisations.
Topics covered include:

Defining Enterprise 2.0
Identifying business value
Risks and concerns
Social networks in the enterprise
The [...]

CMSWire reports on Open Text’s “holistic approach to their Enterprise 2.0 aspirations”.

You only need look at the language to realise that, whilst they may be “setting their goals higher”, they are still squarely aiming at the IT department. According to the article their “exclusive” features include:

Experience Optimization
Workgroup Optimization
Enterprise 2.0 Content Management
Enterprise 2.0 Content Security
Excited yet? [...]

Howard Greenstein loves John Smith’s definition of social software:
“Social software is software that is no fun to experiment with by yourself.”
Not sure I agree. Joshua Porter’s ‘Common Pitfalls of Building Social Web Applications and How to Avoid Them’ springs to mind. He said that “strong social sites build value one user at a time”. In [...]