Enterprise 2.0

Last week I covered the third category in my approach to planning Enterprise 2.0. The fourth and final category is connection.
Day Four: Connection
With social software, interaction is distributed over time, between multiple individuals and even across different systems. The tools that make connections between and within people and content are therefore critical in bringing together [...]

Yesterday I covered the second element in the 4Cs approach to applying enterprise 2.0 to your business. Today I’ll focus on the third, collaboration.
Day Three: Collaboration
One of the biggest areas of contention is the difference between cooperation and collaboration. Put very simply, collaborative social software supports the engagement of participants in a coordinated effort to [...]

Yesterday I introduced the 4Cs model for applying enterprise 2.0 in any business and outlined the elements that make up the first C - communication.
Today it’s the turn of the second, cooperation (or co-operation, if you prefer).
Day Two: Cooperation
With cooperation I am interested in social software that supports informal working where there are no pre-defined [...]

Well, the book was officially published yesterday. So I’d thought I do something different this week.
Starting today I’m going to introduce the model for how to apply enterprise 2.0 concepts that forms the nucleus of the book. On Friday, I’ll sum up and leave you with some further thoughts.
Introducing the 4Cs
Andrew McAfee’s SLATES and Dion [...]

If you are in any doubt as to whether Enterprise 2.0 is relevant to you, I invite you to download the intro and first chapter (820Kb PDF) and decide for yourself.
In the words of foreword contributor, Don Tapscott, “read, enjoy and prosper”.

I arrived back from a very relaxing vacation to a small package from my publisher containing nothing less than 6 presentation copies of Enterprise 2.0, hot off the press.
The official publication date has been confirmed as 21 July, but I’ve already heard from someone who pre-ordered that theirs arrived yesterday.
I’m now in the process of [...]

With only a month or so left before formal publication (I should receive my copies this week!), I’m heading off on vacation for a couple of weeks before returning to market the book in earnest.
Whilst I’m away, I thought I’d leave you with this cartoon from Geek And Poke explaining what it really means to [...]

Nortel and IDC have just put out a new piece of research looking at the relative connectivity of 2,400 people in 17 countries. They asked questions about both device and application usage to determine four distinct cluster of ‘connectedness’:

Hyperconnected: “Those who have fully embraced the brave new world, with more devices per capita than the [...]

For those reporting on Forrester’s prediction that the Enterprise 2.0 market will be worth US$4.6 billion by 2013, please choose your words carefully.
On page 3, the Forrester report refers to the “enterprise Web 2.0″ market as encompassing “both externally facing marketing functions and internally facing productivity and collaboration functions.” And in Figure 5.1 they clearly [...]

Ross Dawson is an accomplished author of two books: Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships and Living Networks.
To mark the latter’s five year birthday, an anniversary edition has been published and Ross is making every single chapter available as a free download via his blog and the Living Networks website.
I highly recommend taking Ross up on his [...]