Just using my administrative freedom on this site and introducing another E2.0 fellow on this blog - Prof. Dr. Joachim Niemeier (XING, Twitter, Blog). As involved within the Wiki Wednesday Stuttgart Martin knows him a lot longer than me, but still - first time I got to know him was at the Dresdener Zukunftsforum 2006, where he - as the former CEO of T-Systems MMS - acted as an engaging moderator of this great event. This is also the reason why I asked him to do the moderation at our upcoming Enterprise 2.0 Executive FORUM. So give him also a warm welcome!

In the absence of Martin I feel very free in doing some administrative tasks and inviting some more people of the European E2.0 community in contributing to this blog. First one to be introduced is Mark Masterson, “Senior Solution Architect and resident troublemaker” at CSC - to be found on the net at Twitter, XING and LinkedIN - or directly on his blog “Process Perfection”. Give him a warm welcome.

He just called for a email bomb DOS attack on elsua who is trying hardly to get away from email as information exchange tool.

After the introduction note by Martin I want to briefly say hello to the readers of this blog. I am the conference chair of Kongress Media and therefore in charge of several E2.0 events - for example the Enterprise 2.0 Executive FORUM on Sept. 18th in Cologne with Suw Charman-Anderson and JP Rangaswami as international speakers as well as several well-known German E2.0 practioneers and experts. Do not miss the Early Bird price of 690 EUR - valid until Aug 15th.

Next in line after the E2.0 FORUM is the Web 2.0 EXPO EUROPE in Berlin - for which Kongress Media is a partner and I am supporting TechWeb as a member of the advisory board. The W2E EUROPE is not a specific E2.0 event, but will also cover this discussion in parts - also with a talk by JP Rangaswami and some more interesting speakers.

After the W2E EUROPE the ECM WORLD SUMMIT on Nov. 10th - 12th is the next, major event in our event schedule - covering the E2.0 aspect from a more “old school” angle. The ECM WORLD SUMMIT - formerly known as Contentmanager.days - is the industry event for the information management industry in Germany. It discusses trends and success factors from “old school” information management (including content, document and knowledge management) towards new approaches on a more participative level. E2.0 will be a keynote topic - and I am still looking for the right speaker on this. Feel free to propose me some appropiate experts!

Following the ECM WORLD SUMMIT we will have a rather smaller but nonetheless interesting event on Intranet Management in Switzerland on Dec 2nd - the Swiss Intranet FORUM. This event will also not be exclusively focussed on the E2.0 discussion, but as Intranet projects are on the change towards the E2.0 paradigm this topic will take a substantial part of the discussion.

Well - and then some kind of an Enterprise 2.0 Area at the CeBIT 2009 will be our following event - as a new follow-up of our successfully organised CeBIT Content Management Arena @ CeBIT. As Martin already mentioned it in his post we are still collecting material and suggestions for this. So far the following facts are set: there will be an E2.0 area at CeBIT 2009 in Hall 6 as an open conference with national and international speakers, best-practices and some kind of open and participative format each day. Join in, give us your thoughts and suggestions and be part of a great E2.0 community gathering!