The reason this quote came to mind was the result of a recent blog post Oracle's View On Enterprise 2.0 So what do Einstein, Snowflakes and WOA have to do with Enterprise 2.0? Enterprise 2.0 Two key points are further explained in McAfee's Enterprise 2.0, Einstein once said, "It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience." where Billy Cripe from Oracle and Susan Scrupskie from

We did an internal exercise recently that produced a list of the advanced features we think are crucial for a successful enterprise social media platform. The idea is that functionality for user participation across every owned venue should draw upon a central system, enabling a multifaceted approach to CRM, data analysis, reporting—and ultimately leveraging distributed corporate efforts to generate enterprise business intelligence. I’ll share the results of that exercise here, with the caveat that this is undoubtedly a partial list only. Your comments and suggestions are welcome, of course! I helped think through this some of this stuff, but the bulk of the credit (including for the writing) goes to my ZAAZ colleague Ariel van Spronsen.

When conversations on Enterprise 2.0 Billy Cripe is the director of product management, Enterprise 2.0 Vince Casarez is vice president of product mangement, Enterprise 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Two key points are further explained turn to vendors, most of the time you will hear a list of small vendors (e.g., Atlassian, Connectbeam, Jive, Socialtext, Telligent, etc) as well as traditional collaboration and content platform players (e.g.,

Enterprise 2.0 The industry can identify a "portal market", an "enterprise content management market", and even a "collaboration market". However, when it comes to Enterprise 2.0, If we are thinking in terms of a solution space, perhaps that's a better descriptor - but the word "market" should probably be avoided when it comes to Enterprise 2.0. A partial list of points-to-ponder: is not a "market": A market should have some common definition along with identifiable boundaries that can be measured with metrics (many of which would be related to financial

Funny enough, that has been like that for quite a while, having gotten started around 2001, when I was first getting exposed to Knowledge Management (KM or Knowledge Sharing, whatever you would prefer) as time and time again I kept bumping into multiple knowledge managers wanting to define it. Steve Barth ventured, earlier on this year, into putting some very thought-provoking arguments on the need for one, after all, and he shares his favourite one : " Most of the folks out there who know me, and have been following this blog for a while, have probably realised by now how much I dislike definitions, and putting labels on things, in general.

commented extensively on Twitter last evening and thought I'd share the "tweets" below: - Products are neither Enterprise 2.0 The MySite capability for user profiles existed in earlier releases but was designed as a personal site for file sharing - it was never designed to be a social networking component. From a deployment Thomas Vanderwal posted an article on Microsoft SharePoint 2007 that has caught traction on other blogs ( Sharepoint as a Gateway Drug to Greater Efficiency... ) and on Twitter.

For the most part I agree but we're still in the phase were vendors are hyping the benefits and not being transparent regarding some of the "non-fun" aspects of making these systems acceptable for large enterprise environments. I don't address the conflict these tools will have with enterprise IM/UC systems but that's another decision organizations will have to address - and will UC vendors respond in a "good enough" fashion to keep these tools from gaining any type of long-term traction. Some good points in this post from Adina Levin (Socialtext). I

Given the economy, and restrictions on travel in many organizations, the Enterprise 2.0 conference still managed to present many stories from "real people" doing "real stuff" under the banner of "Enterprise 2.0". did a quick pass through "by day" view and thought it would be nice to call out these individuals (as well as their respective organizations) and thank them for taking the time to come to Boston and share their experiences. I If I missed anyone, or mis-categorized someone, my apologies (correct me via comments).

Enterprise Instant Messaging (IM) In its most common use, enterprise, IM is used for point-to-point communication between individuals. Email remains the most common communication method within the enterprise. Controls are possible though - people can make their information private in Twitter but a permission model allows that person to share within a trusted group. Ross Mayfield put forth a pretty interesting question on Twitter (see below). It's a great question - my thoughts below:

spoke with Dan Barrett, who led the implementation of their enterprise wiki for knowledge sharing, VistaWiki. Three years ago VistaPrint was concerned about their intranet and its inability to handle their growing knowledge sharing needs. At this point, Dan advocated for an enterprise wiki rather than ten separate efforts. VistaPrint is an online supplier of graphic design services and customized printed products to small businesses and consumers. I