No More Silos

“They have also extended the reach of search to include the siloed content repositories that have become commonplace in large businesses, including EMC Documentum, IBM FileNet, OpenText Livelink, and Microsoft Sharepoint”

A presentation on government in the 2.0 era – but really the ideas and suggestions go well beyond government. All sorts of useful information on what web 2.0 means to those who are willing to embrace it.

“If McKinsey says that informal / tacit interactions has a real business value it will help a lot of people to be confortable with the notion of soft ROI, won’t it ?”

My favourite: “Lesson #3: Enterprise 2.0 is more a state of mind than a product you can purchase”

Another post on the change in culture/mindset required to truly take advantage of Enterprise 2.0. Quote – “…in the end, creativity and control are, to me, likely to be mutually exclusive more often than not”

My guess is that IBM somehow managed to historically foster the right kind of corporate culture that enabled Enterprise 2.0 to take root quickly. Quote: “My advice to CIO’s everywhere: Just Let It Happen; I think you’ll be surprised at the results.”

Microsoft’s Office SharePoint Server 2007 is getting an assist from Atlassian Software’s Confluence, a leading enterprise wiki, and NewsGator, a leading RSS management platform.

“To succeed at collaboration, experts say, it’s best for organizations to focus first on corporate culture and then choose technology that fits that culture.”

We implemented the Conference as a social networking experience and asked the conference attendees to actively participate.

More interesting ideas on how to market/publicise Enterprise 2.0 internally. I really like the idea of setting up a display in a common area like the company cafeteria

Very brief summary of some lessons learned during the BBC’s social software implementation

Just a great blog post overall. “If we live in an economy where innovation is a key factor of performance and competitiveness, we have to accept exploration and reprimand exploitation.”

“The dirty little secret of Web 2.0 is that much of the client-side scripting logic our developers create actually cannot be enforced if either the user or some type of bot knows how to get around it.”

“Taking a collaborative approach to thinking and working through these issues is tough, it takes time and it can be frustrating, but it i the only way to create sustainable change and bring people with you on the journey.”

Some good ideas on how to internally “market” Enterprise 2.0

“A look at best practices for wiki adoption within enterprises”. A good overview of wiki adoption from one of the founders of Atlassian – the company that produces Confluence (enterprise wiki)

“This may be the next great problem for social networking platforms to solve: how to enable social problem solving.” I like the ideas, but I am not convinced that the solution is to build another tool.

The CIO (chief information officer) organization at IBM has adopted the idea of a participatory Web and is engaged in leveraging employee talent to address the persistent information technology challenges facing global enterprises.

More thoughts on how to relate ROI and Enterprise 2.0. The traditional measures of ROI are not directly transferable.