Enterprise 2.0 TV Show

This looks vaguely interesting, the Enterprise 2.0 TV Show with Jeremy Geelan, where the first episode is announced for today.

We’ll see how the first show turns out, the website’s needs an overhaul (text as graphics – brrrrr).

Podcast on Motorolas wiki use

Dan Bricklin writeups a podcast (mp3) with Toby Redshaw of Motorola on their continued wiki use. Sound quality is not that good, it’s a telephone call recording after all, but it’s OK for me.

We learn about Motorola’s internal usage of wikis and blogs, the ways of implementation, actual usage in the organization, the role and usefulness of wiki gardeners and yet more on success factors :

They prune old and unused content, sometimes having a blog that lasts just a very short time. They work hard to keep it all fresh and up to date. They have knowledge champions in various areas who help do this. He feels these “domain owners” are an important part of facilitating the “quality” of the information and its organization. This is internally oriented, which has everybody with the same mission of advancing the company’s goals and under the same governance to keep out bad behavior, etc. This is not Wikipedia on the public web.

I also like this take on the further ways of Enterprise 2.0 concepts as they make inroads into all corporate environments (given that Motorola has probably a high geek-factor in its workforce anyway):

Toby sees an evolution towards “enterprise mashups” with business process management, enterprise information management systems, structured data management systems, data warehouses, and wikis. Process management data that shows a choke point or other problem in a process can link back automatically to a search of wiki data to find prior material relating to that situation and even identify individuals to be called in. They are trying to use both structured and unstructured information.

And there’s more interesting stuff, worthy 45 minutes.

Beyond Enterprise 2.0

Just found: Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee are interviewed in the latest edition of the MIT Sloan Management Review. “Beyond Enterprise 2.0” in a section which looks promising as well: The Future of the Web. Best of all – it’s available as a free pdf.

Nearly all businesses today are critically dependent on the Web for their everyday functioning, so it is important to stay attuned to its continuing evolution, innovation and challenges. In this special report, a variety of noted experts explore a wide range of topics pivotal to the Web’s future, from e-commerce to collaboration tools to some of the Web’s unsettling vulnerabilities.

[Crossposting into the BMID-blog]

BusinessWeek zu Wikis im Unternehmen

Wikis are now making their way into corporations where they are used as collaborative software to handle such tasks as project management, tech support, research and development, event planning and customer relationship management

Hier die Übersichtsseite (“CEO Guide to Technology”), darin u.a. das:

    Wild About Wikis
    Intel, Motorola, Sony—they’re among the companies using Web-collaboration tools to promote products and foster teamwork among employees
    Tip Sheet: Wiki Etiquette
    This short primer may help you through the perils and pleasures of collaboration on intra-company wikis
    Corporate Wikis Go Viral
    Two European companies [frogpond: Nokia und Dresdner Kleinwort] show how the collaborative practice spreads from early adopters of wikis at work to become mainstream business tools

Nicht zu vergessen ein Podcast-Interview mit Andrew McAfee von Rachel King (mp3), in dem er neben verschiedenen Einsatz- und Anwendungsszenarien auch Aspekte der Einführung anspricht.

Sind Sie am Einsatz von Wikis in ihrem Unternehmen interessiert? Sprechen Sie mich an.

The Next Wave of Enterprise 2.0

M.R. Rangaswami, of Sand Hill Group interviews
Web 2.0 pioneer Ross Mayfield of SocialText on what’s going to define the next few years in social software for business.

Enterprise 2.0 technology is revolutionizing the knowledge workplace. And despite debates over the name and definition, experts agree that the core concepts and business-driving power of Enterprise 2.0 will only continue to grow.