Enterprise2.0: June 2007 Archives

This entry cross-posted to my new blog location. I had a chance for a one-on-one chat and demo with Raju Vegesna, Zoho's evangelist, while at Enterprise 2.0 this week; since I do face-to-face interviews with a paper notebook, however, it's... Read More..

This entry cross-posted to my new blog location. The conference finished with a general "town hall" session with Jessica Lipnack of NetAge and Stowe Boyd of Blue Whale Labs. I had thought that there was too much preaching to the... Read More..

This entry cross-posted to my new blog location. The last breakout session was with Thomas Vander Wal of InfoCloud, talking about tagging in the enterprise. He started out defining tagging and its uses: simple data/metadata externally applied to an object,... Read More..

This entry cross-posted to my new blog location. Luis Solis of GroupSystems moderated a panel on Group Intelligence Across the Enterprise: 5 Keys to Success, with David Marshak of the Unified Communications & Collaboration group at IBM, Alex Pentland of... Read More..

This entry cross-posted to my new blog location. Last day at the conference -- half-day, really -- and the first breakout session is with Sam Weber of KnowNow, discussing "RSS: Bridging the Gap Between the People and the Information that... Read More..

This entry cross-posted to my new blog location. No, not that kind of video -- these are hot-off-the-press videos of the keynote sessions at the Enterprise 2.0 conference. I stopped by the Altus display at the trade show after the... Read More..

This entry cross-posted to my new blog location. Following on directly from his talk, Don Tapscott moderated a panel including Ross Mayfield of SocialText, Kim Polese of SpikeSource (who I saw speak about open source at the CMU West New... Read More..

This entry cross-posted to my new blog location. Don Tapscott talked about the concepts from his book Wikinomics, which I finally got around to reading recently (okay, I confess, I didn't read the whole thing...). He states that the web... Read More..

This entry cross-posted to my new blog location. David Coleman is hosting a panel that includes Bob McCandless and Chad Ata of BrightCom, Irene Greif of IBM, and Denis Browne of SAP of what's happening in their experimental environments right... Read More..

This entry cross-posted to my new blog location. Michael Sampson of Collaboration Success Advisors chaired Launch Pad, where four companies each had six minutes to talk about a new product that they're launching. David Coleman and Stowe Boyd each provided... Read More..

This entry cross-posted to my new blog location. You can see some live (and nearly live) coverage of the Enterprise 2.0 conference on their website: follow the links in the top right corner. Check out the videos of the keynote... Read More..

This entry cross-posted to my new blog location. After watching Ajay Gandhi in the panel just before lunch, I meet up with him for an update on what's been happening with their Enterprise 2.0 products since BEA Participate last month.... Read More..

This entry cross-posted to my new blog location. David Coleman of Collaborative Strategies ran a panel on Enterprise Mashups that included Ajay Gandhi of BEA, Rod Smith of IBM, Eric Hoffert of ShareMethods (who I had a great chat with... Read More..

This entry cross-posted to my new blog location. Jeffrey Walker and Stewart Mader of Atlassian spoke next on "Collective Intelligence: Monkeys or Memes?" (great title, making reference to the infinite monkey theorem), which was really about adoption patterns of enterprise... Read More..

This entry cross-posted to my new blog location. Today started out with another panel -- seems to be the more common format for breakout sessions here rather than individual speaker. I was a few minutes late and came in on... Read More..

This entry cross-posted to my new blog location. Whenever I attend a conference as press, as I am at this one, I receive a lot of requests for meetings with vendors while I'm at the conference. I had so many... Read More..

This entry cross-posted to my new blog location. Another panel, this one with moderator Brian Gillooly from Optimize, and including panelists Jordan Frank of Traction, Mark Mader of Smartsheet.com, Suresh Chandrasekaran of Denodo, Todd Berkowitz of NewsGator and David Carter... Read More..

This entry cross-posted to my new blog location. First after lunch is a panel that includes Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps from NetAge, who I saw present this morning, plus Sujatha Bodapati of ProdexNet (an IT services company with a... Read More..

This entry cross-posted to my new blog location. We finished the morning with a keynote/general session by Dennis Moore of SAP, who gets points for making us laugh within the first 30 seconds. We still seem to be covering a... Read More..

This entry cross-posted to my new blog location. We heard from IBM, so it's inevitable that we're going to hear from Microsoft too: namely, Derek Burney, GM of the SharePoint Platform and Tools group. More stuff on how we're in... Read More..

This entry cross-posted to my new blog location. Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps of NetAge shifted gears away from technology by talking about the personal side of networks and organizations: their company focuses on organization change, particularly that required to... Read More..

This entry cross-posted to my new blog location. The first session after the morning break is Marthin De Beer of Cisco's Emerging Markets Technology group, speaking about how video and other Web 2.0 technologies are changing the enterprise. Like many... Read More..

This entry cross-posted to my new blog location. Ambuj Goyal of IBM gave the next keynote on the changes that they're seeing in organizations, and how this is informing their Enterprise 2.0 directions. Like any established software vendor would do,... Read More..

This entry cross-posted to my new blog location. The second keynote was by Andrew McAfee, the Harvard professor who originally coined the term "Enterprise 2.0" only a year ago, speaking on the state of that particular meme. He started off... Read More..

This entry cross-posted to my new blog location. David Weinberger, co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto, was the first keynote speaker today with a session on Rattling [Business'] Foundations. He's an incredibly energetic speaker and had a very funny set of... Read More..

This entry cross-posted to my new blog location. I missed the Zoho harbour cruise last night (they weren't so bold as to call it a Boston Tea-point-oh Party), but I'm headed across the harbour for the Enterprise 2.0 conference now,... Read More..

This entry cross-posted to my new blog location. I don't leave for Boston for the Enterprise 2.0 conference for another few hours, but this morning there was a session with Andrew McAfee and Tom Davenport in an Enterprise 2.0 debate... Read More..

I thought that my heavy travel time was almost over for the summer, but it just refuses to go away. Due to a new client (yes, I do actually do work that I get paid for sometimes, in addition to... Read More..