We'll discuss interactively with the audience (including Twitter) how Enterprise 2.0 could affect the life of its workers.  E.g.,

See http://schmooz.typepad.com/sociosphere/2009/12/life-20-via-enterprise-20.html

There's way too much 1.0-thinking being applied to the 2.0 era. "Driving adoption" is the antithesis of the fundamental premises of 2.0. Starting with 2.0 axioms is critical to guide any 2.0 initiative.

Taking a somewhat unique approach, MITRE decided to deploy a "business networking" research platform on our DMZ to allow us to network and collaborate both within our enterprise and across sponsor and partner organizations. We are making enterprise customizations to an open source social networking platform (Elgg) to address security, information sharing policy, external user management strategies, organizational scaling, relationship management, and business functional requirements. We are also assessing the business value and new business models it affords.

With the addition of social media to the already increasing amount of Web content, companies are spending more resources trying to make sense of what is happening. In addition, the connections between formal, informal, structured and unstructured information are becoming more difficult to establish. It may only get worse with the advent of auto-generated content and other content "farms." In this session we will explore and discuss how the application of chaos theory to this issue can help break the silos of information and allow the emergence of meaningful awareness for better decision making.  This new paradigm moves beyond Page Rank to reduce the impact of traditional SEO techniques that can elevate low quality content.  We will look at how the visualization of connections between content related to a particular theme can reveal new relationships and help with the discovery and awareness of trends, both anticipated and unanticipated.  ...More »

Bringing a new product to market is an incredible challenge with massive consequences. According to IDC, market leaders get 43% of their profits from new products. With so much at stake in an often saturated marketplace, it is imperative that companies gain as much insight as possible before launching. However, few leverage the extensive knowledge that already exists within their organization. Based on 'wisdom of the crowd' theory, prediction market technology collects individual employees' forecasts on critical business metrics, allowing executives access to valuable information from every corner of the company. The result is a clear view of the potential success of a product launch that is impossible to achieve without collective insight.

In this session, Mat Fogarty, founder and CEO of Crowdcast, creators of collective intelligence solutions for leading Fortune 500 companies, will explore the challenges enterprise companies face when bringing ...More »

IT Fellow Allison Sheridan from Raytheon will take you on the harrowing journey from a twinkle in the CIO's eye about social collaboration through the dangerous jungle of cross-organizational decision making to attaining the blessings of the wizards of Communications and Legal on a Social Collaboration policy.  From there she'll lead you across the shark infested waters of a 2000 person pilot group to the peaceful coexistence that is the Raytheon success story. Ms. Sheridan is an enthusiastic speaker (as her podcast listeners can attest) and she radiates her passion for the importance of social collaboration inside large corporations.

Email is fast, free, and easy to use, but it has many limitations, especially in an enterprise context. Yet many employees, especially baby-boomers, rely on it nearly exclusively. This talk examines the use cases for which email is the wrong tool, and how to move to better ones.

Enterprise 2.0 can increase efficiencies and help meet business objectives but it can also generate competitive advantage.   To create higher levels of value, the use of web 2.0 technologies needs to be linked to other organizational enablers, eg HR and management practices, organization design, OD interventions, other communication, leadership (communityship), facilities design etc.

Organizations are bombarded with digital content - blogs, Twitter, Social Networking sites, RSS feeds, and internal content all contribute to the noise and distractions of today's employees.  Seth will explore how to get a handle on what is important and what will help drive your business forward using easy, cost-effective tools and tips for analyzing text from the social web.  He'll review success stories and ways that will help you make better business decisions, faster, by using entity extraction, theme extraction and sentiment analysis.