Two weeks ago I did the opening keynote session at KongressMedia’s latest Enterprise 2.0 Forum in Germany. They are running a sequence of events on the topic, with good, practical case studies, reaching a high quality audience. This last session had contributions from ABB, Deutsche Lufthansa, Bayer Business Services , T-Systems Multimedia Solutions, Frauenhofer Institute and Vodafone. Sadly it was all in German, except for my pitch, so I ended the day with a headache from concentrating,... Read Full Story

In part 1 of this enterprise 2.0 explanation I gave an overview of the topic and talked through some of the very few concrete examples and case studies that are out there. Tomorrow I’ll post part 3 to expand the definition of the topic and pick up on some of the predictions for 2009. This post looks at how enterprise 2.0 tools can help and facilitate a change in management approach inside organizations, and some more real examples. Take a look at how some technology companies are taking... Read Full Story

You may know that I’m a big fan and advocate of Twitter and the microsharing concept.  Because I follow what’s said about the product, this morning I spotted that over on Nerd World, a Time/CNN blog, Lev Grossman can’t believe Twitter is winning: “Why is this still going on? When will market forces and/or cosmic justice weed this useless attention-suck out of the technological gene pool? That’s what recessions are for. “ Lev just hasn’t been shown the... Read Full Story

Last week some dialogue started between the Enterprise Irregulars on Enterprise 2.0.  Susan Scrupski set a challenge for 2009 to get one of our number, Vinnie Mirchandani,  on to Twitter.  Vinnie is an Enterprise traditionalist who is sceptical about some of the claims of Enterprise 2.0 vendors and what he calls their “egotistical positioning”  of this stuff as some form of Enterprise solution replacement.  That triggered some great interplay and ideas about the topic, ERP and Bar... Read Full Story

Two weeks ago I posted about a very “web 1.0″ style PDF twitter guide. I actually think this concept of microblogging short messages, somewhere between IM and email as a means of team communication and collaboration is going to become increasingly important in business.  Just like with particular email services like Hotmail, although Twitter might be the best known example at the moment, there will be many services to choose from, and many software providers including the concept ... Read Full Story

For some time we’ve planned to hook CreativeCoffee Club up with a University in London, as well as wanting to get away fro the Height’s Bar at the St. Georges. The Heights Bar has a great view, and means you can regularly rub shoulders with BBC luminaries and producers, but the coffee is lousy and the service even worse. Open Coffee and Seedcamp just hooked up with UCL, and since this is my old university I made contact with UCL Advances. This is the department with a stated aim t... Read Full Story

Just yesterday (I’m on US Mountain Time, even if my blog isn’t) I was speaking In Zurich at the first SOMESSO conference. I really enjoyed it, and I’ll say more about the content another time. It was a great event in a quality venue (Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute), with classy food, top class audio visual resources, in stylish surroundings, but guess what? - the conference WiFI service failed several times during the show. Now as you know, I’ve blogged about this topic... Read Full Story

The ”micro-blogging” service Twitter is heading towards the mainstream as a means to connect with a network of people you trust and admire for advice, and as a source of information.   It gets mentioned on the BBC, or even Fox News, but there are still plenty in the business community, or even the traditional IT and Communications communities who need some help in understanding what it really is and why it’s useful.  I was presenting to 60 people at a CMA event last week, an... Read Full Story

Over the last few days I’ve been watching a frustrated twitter stream from presenters and attendees at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin. Apparently there has been plenty of WiFi downtime. You would think an organization like O’Reilly, who actually own the web 2.0 brand when it comes to running conferences, would make sure that the twitter crowd (or tweeple) and the blogging fraternity were well served with access and bandwidth. Sadly this is the norm for almost every technology conferen... Read Full Story

I’ve just arrived back from a very enjoyable 3 days in Berlin at SAP’s TechEd 2008 conference. The theme was “Connect, Collaborate, Co-innovate” and I could see plenty of connections, some good examples of collaboration, and one stand-out example of co-innovation (called ESME - more on that in a later post). It started with Community Day, a multi-threaded not quite “unconference” with sessions for the SAP Developer Network and the Business Process eXpert co... Read Full Story