Rather than list off a "top ten" list of predictions for 2009, I thought I would briefly layout some topics and areas that business and IT decision-makers should pay attention to when formulating Enterprise 2.0 Enterprise 2.0: Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) is a disappointing platform for social computing in my opinion. plans: Critical Decisions For 2009 "SharePoint

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

It is a corporate sponsored social network site that is voluntary, open-source, operates outside of the corporate firewall and is moderated by its users. One of the examples of internal communications programs I’ve cited in presentations and previous posts is the Best Buy Blue Shirt Nation - an internal social network for employees of the electronics super store. SME-TV: Behind The Scenes With Best Buy's Blue Shirt Nation Two videos, very informative... Gary Koelling and Steve Bendt at BIF-4

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.

Managing staff who participate in social networks. This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on. I’ve done a few press (radio, print) interviews this week re: Telstra so I thought I should have another look at how Enterprise, Government, Corporates, Not for Profits  are handling the fact that their staff are members of social networks too.  I once had to step in to calm down a forum that was off the charts with

Products are neither Enterprise 2.0 were a product check-list, life would be so easy, unfortunately it's not... - "emergent use of social software" - gets to how social software is used, not so much what it is - 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. 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.

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 is the use of emergent social software platforms within companies, or between 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

The article below is interesting in that it does call out a dark truth - enterprise adoption of feed syndication tools has been lacking. However, There are a host of reasons why Enterprise RSS has not taken off yet (vs. The first concept to understand is that the key focus point for Enterprise RSS is not the reader - it's the feed syndication platform (the server back-end) that provides centralized administration, feed management However, the article disappoints because it gives too much credit to feed readers as the reason. I

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

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. While originally intended to provide a means for people to broadcast status messages, Twitter evolved rapidly into a conversation tool - and ultimately into a community and social Ross Mayfield put forth a pretty interesting question on Twitter (see below). It's a great question - my thoughts below: