http://blog.enterprise2open.com Bonding the Enterprise 2.0 Community Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:24:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 1) What is your name? Lee Bryant 2) Who do you are and what are you doing? Co-founder and director of Headshift 3) How did you get to the E2.0 topic? I founded and ran a web agency in 1996 that specialised in knowledge communities, as we called it then. I left to set up ... http://blog.enterprise2open.com/2008/10/08/expert-profile-lee-bryant/ Lots of information have been already distributed through out the net about the Enterprise 2.0 FORUM / Cologne, that took place already nearly two weeks ago. Now we finished cutting and setting up all the recorded video materials - so here we go with the presentation of Suw Charman-Anderson talking ... http://blog.enterprise2open.com/2008/09/27/rewarding-social-software-participation-within-the-corporation/ Following a link on Martin's Delicious recommendations I stumbled upon Richard Dennison's note about the new BT case study - which is already quite interesting to read (see also this video!). While being on Richard's site I came along another interesting post about the Intranet evolution which again hijacked me ... http://blog.enterprise2open.com/2008/09/15/from-a-distraction-towards-a-new-thought/ In a recent post Bernard Lunn of RWW lists some objections CIOs have towards social media. He comes up with the following issues: Unpredictable scaling issues. Security against IP loss. Integration. Loss of productivity. Accidental brand damage. I would say most of them derive from the software-as-a-service concept Bernard implies towards ... http://blog.enterprise2open.com/2008/09/15/what-are-the-answers-to-the-cios-objections/ The discussions about micro blogging services have reached another peak these days with Yammer winning the beauty contest at TechCrunch50. Despite all reservations regarding Yammer not being very innovative this incident at least turned on the light on looking at micro blogging services as Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Identi.ca or as ... http://blog.enterprise2open.com/2008/09/14/microblogging-as-a-corporate-tool/ I have read at Mike Gotta about his research in the field of social networking within the enterprise. As we have some cases on this at the upcoming Enterprise 2.0 FORUM I wondered whether there are some more people out there that are interested in bringing together some case studies ... http://blog.enterprise2open.com/2008/09/13/research-about-social-networking-within-the-enterprise/ I just stumbled upon an interesting research paper of the Harvard Business School (via Collaborative Thinking of Mike Gotta) that discusses the "struggle of balancing the conflicting demands of efficiency and innovation". While it's clear that efficiency (in the means of constant or better business results at less or at ... http://blog.enterprise2open.com/2008/09/11/perturbation-needed-for-innovations/ There's an english summary of the latest pre-conference-interview up at my site ("Pre-Conference interview: dbWiki - building a Web 2.0 corporate knowledge base"). Joachim Niemeier talked to Dr. Matthias Büger, Vice President, Group Technology and Operations and Jamil Ouaj, GTO Communications of Deutsche Bank AG. One thing I analyzed is ... http://blog.enterprise2open.com/2008/09/09/pre-conference-interview-building-a-web-20-knowledge-base-at-deutsche-bank/ Short notice that I blogged an english summary (and personal analysis) of the third pre-conference interview Joachim Niemeier did with Arne Schümann of Festo. It's here at my personal site: "Changing organisations via Enterprise 2.0 - Festo", while you can find the german language fulltext of the interview here at ... http://blog.enterprise2open.com/2008/08/28/changing-organisations-via-enterprise-20-festo/ I attended a mashup* Event on Enterprise 2.0 in July at BT's spectacularly plush little auditorium in London (you can watch the whole event on video at that link). It was a pleasant evening, characterised by hearing JP Rangaswami speak (the man is a walking recruitment advertisement for BT: ... http://blog.enterprise2open.com/2008/08/26/which-part-of-existing-organisations-dislikes-e20-the-most/