Enterprise 2.0

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
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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 [...]

Congratulations to Andrew McAfee and Ross Mayfield for making it onto eWeek’s list of the 100 most influential people in IT for 2008, respectively (and now respectfully) the “torch-bearer for the emerging Enterprise 2.0 market” and “a thought leader in the burgeoning Web 2.0 collaboration software market.”
Other IT commentators who have been known to voice their opinions on Enterprise 2.0, including Tom [...]

I’ve just been sent four possible jacket designs by the publisher.

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What do you think? Leave a comment below and tell me what you like and don’t like.
There’s been one suggestion that the bullet image might be too “controversial”. What’s your view?

It’s been 16 months since I broke the news that I had been asked to write a book on social software in the enterprise (now widely known as Enterprise 2.0 thanks to people like Andrew McAfee and Dion Hinchcliffe).
At 22.49 last night I sent my final manuscript (all 50,000 words of it) to my publisher. [...]

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 [...]

The enterprise Twitter clone, Yammer, has a great business model that exploits the desire for grassroots social computing from employees and preys on the security fears of their employers.
The way it works is simple: any employee can sign up to Yammer for free. If they are the first to use their corporate email domain (e.g. [...]