Liveblogging Enterprise 2.0 – Stowe Boyd, Social = Me First

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Social = Me First

Stowe Boyd, Editor/Writer – /Message

The core concept of “Social = Me First” is that everything truly social is at heart about the individual.

There are lots of new applications which have taken over the old groupware notion of “groups.” But rather than having to belong to specific groups (see his recent blog post on facebook and geographic networks, in which you can only belong to one region) the group should be virtual projection based on what I am interested in and what I do.
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Liveblogging Enterprise 2.0 – SAP (Enterprise 2.1)

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Dennis Moore, General Manager, Emerging Solutions, SAP Labs

I’m going to talk about what we’re finding in our own use of Web 2.0 in the Enterprise.

Basis: Migration of our economies from task work to information work.

It’s at the edges where web 2.0 has started to penetrate the enterprise – collaboration.

45% using blogs. 43% using RSS. 35% using wikis – per IDC QuickLaunch survey Feb 2007.
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Liveblogging Enterprise 2.0 – Microsoft’s Derek Burney

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Keynote: Amplify the Impact of your People with Enterprise 2.0 Technologies

11:00 am–11:30 am
Derek Burney, General Manager, SharePoint Platform and Tools, Microsoft

People drive business outcomes. Your employees are the ones who really have customer relationships, know what customers want, know where your operation is inefficient, and so on.

The Microsoft approach is People-ready software.

We’re evolving toward a new world of work – people interacting with each other across many different boundaries. The role of software is to simplify how people work together.

Being connected 24/7/365 and what that means to work/life balance.

Also, changing workplace demographic. Millenials. Different ways of collaborating and different expectations.

Business Productivity Infrastructure.

Five core capabilities:

  • Unified Communications
  • Business Intelligence
  • Enterprise Content Management
  • Collaboration
  • Enterprise Search

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Liveblogging Enterprise 2.0 – Jeffrey Stamps and Jessica Lipnack – Decide to Network

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10:45 am–11:00 am General Session – Collaborating in the Transparent Enterprise
Jeffrey Stamps, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, NetAge
Jessica Lipnack, NetAge, Inc., CEO and Co-Founder

It is important to remember the people stuff, not just the technology stuff.

Flashback to 40 years ago – networks forming (a time of another war) around common purpose and new communications technologies – mimeograph, for example.

Flashforward to 2007 – what happened to the spirit of the 60s? Networks as organizations.
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Liveblogging Enterprise 2.0 – Cisco’s Martin De Beer

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How Video and Other Web 2.0 Technologies Are Changing the Enterprise, Marthin De Beer, Senior Vice President, Emerging Markets Technology Group, Cisco Systems, Inc.

The face of things to come – Sarah as a prototype of the new employee: uses flickr, pandora, facebook, youtube, “computer science and modern culture” major

What will the impact of the workplace in transition be?

The incoming generation thinks of social tools the way we (who you calling we?) think of email.
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