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Webciety and Enterprise 2.0: A snapshot of today’s social computing conversations

By Dion Hinchcliffe on March 5, 2010

Though smaller than in year’s past, Germany’s CeBIT trade show in Hanover this week remains one of the giants of the industry and is a must-attend event for much of Europe’s technology leaders. For the last two years, I have been participating in Webciety, a show within a show that explores the emerging 21st century digital lifestyle.

Here is a breakdown of how Europe is looking at Enterprise 2.0 adoption and how it affects us as well.

Posted in Featured Posts, Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Architecture of Participation, blogs, Cloud Computing, collaboration, Collective intelligence, community management, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Wikis, mashups, Network effects, Products, SaaS, social computing, Social CRM, Social Economy, Social Media, social networking, social networks, social software, social web, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Platforms, Wikis | Leave a response

Making government more open and social

By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 28, 2010

Can social tools and community-based approaches truly help our government function better and operate more efficiently? Will open access to government data create important new opportunities for citizens and increase transparency? As we’ll see, these two questions are currently top-of-mind in many public sector policy discussions this year. The questions also herald underlying forces at work in the government landscape in many countries around the world, including the United states.

Here are some of the initiatives that are taking place this year and what’s happening with Government 2.0 as 2010 begins to heat up.

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Architecture of Participation, blogs, Business Models, collaboration, Collective intelligence, Community, community management, Digital Strategy, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, Governance, Government 2.0, Grassroots Community, Open APIs, social computing, Social Economy, Social Media, social networking, social software, social web, Web 2.0, Web as Platform, Wikis | Leave a response

Ten emerging Enterprise 2.0 technologies to watch

By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 22, 2010

Two significant and closely related trends in enterprise computing this year are the growth of Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and social computing. By most accounts, both are gaining ground fairly rapidly while still not being used for core business functions or mission critical applications in most large firms, at least not yet.

Here’s a breakdown of what Enterprise 2.0 technologies and products to watch this year.

Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged blogs, Business Models, collaboration, Community, community management, Convergence, Customer Community, Digital Strategy, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Wikis, Grassroots Community, Identity, LDAP, openid, Products, social computing, Social CRM, Social Economy, Social Media, social networking, social networks, social software, social web, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web as Platform, Web services, Wikis | 2 Responses

Social Business and Next-Generation CIOs – The Impact of Technological Change

By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 18, 2010

The rate of change in the IT industry has increased dramatically in recent years, but overall technological change has moved ahead even faster. Such is the pace that it’s been imposing a disruptive forward drag on enterprises and it’s been…

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business Models, CIO, Crowdsourcing, CTO, CXO, CxO Issues, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, iPhone, mobile, Open Business Models, shadow it, social business, social computing, social networking, Social Tools, technology, Web, Web 2.0, Wikis | 1 Response

The SaaS applications wiki – open for business

By David Terrar on February 12, 2010

Over on AccountingWEB’s forums (you need an AWEB account to log in, but it’s free) there have been some heavy exchanges discussing the barriers to adoption of Cloud solutions by accountants in practice in the UK. I found it interesting, but sadly the dialogue has been too vendor driven, with plenty of verbiage from the [...]

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SAP’s 12Sprints joins the social enterprise bandwagon

By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 4, 2010

I spent some time this morning working with SAP’s new 12Sprints collaboration service, which was announced earlier this week. Available free in open beta immediately, it’s a cloud-based service that’s a cross between Basecamp and Google Wave and is ostensibly designed for team collaboration. Not incidentally, 12Sprints is also clearly a social application and it includes viral invitation, extensive commenting and discussion capabilities, and interesting new twists on measuring community opinion such as real time consensus tracking. Here’s my analysis and breakdown.

Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged Architecture of Participation, blogs, Cloud Computing, collaboration, Collective intelligence, Community, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, Google Wave, Microsoft SharePoint, Products, SaaS, sap, social computing, social networks, social software, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web as Platform, Wikis | 1 Response

The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

By Dion Hinchcliffe on January 20, 2010

The emergence of Facebook, Twitter, and the rest of the social Web as a global force in the last several years has done a great deal to highlight their potential to fundamentally alter the way we communicate and collaborate both at home and in business. However, despite the movement of social computing into our daily lives we’re all clearly on a long journey together as the technologies themselves emerge from infancy.

The state-of-the-art today when it comes to the social computing environments that surround us now — in our browsers, mobile devices, and elsewhere — underscore how much more we have left to do to make these new modes of digital conversation and discourse become mature, efficient, safe, and truly useful.

Fortunately the Web doesn’t stand still and there continues continues to be rapid research and development when it comes to the mechanics of today’s online social universe. There are many new efforts under way to refine and improve the world of social media, some of which we’ll explore here and many which are just beginning…

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ZDNet’s Enterprise Web 2.0: The top 10 posts of 2009

By Dion Hinchcliffe on December 21, 2009

As we get ready to enter the final year of the decade, here’s a round-up of what you found interesting here on Enterprise Web 2.0 based on actual readership. We’ll see what the new year brings us but 2009 was full of notable developments that will have a lasting impact to way we using technology [...]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business Models, Cloud Computing, collaboration, Collective intelligence, Community, Cost-effective scalability, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Wikis, Products, Radical Decentralization, social computing, Social Media, social networking, social networks, social software, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web as Platform, Web services, Wikis | Leave a response

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