Enterprise 2.0 News

'Tis the season to be thankful. 'Tis also the season for me to think about all of the ways that this blog - and my education of social business - has changed throughout 2009.

The idea of Enterprise 2.0 is now a couple of years old, well into the trough of disillusionment as far as hype cycle position goes, and broad outlines are starting to become clear.

December 14, 2009 - IFS North America is releasing the results of a study that shows that manufacturers want to see more integration between social networking tools and their enterprise resources planning systems - " and more social network-like, enterprise 2.0 functionality.

'Social media' seems to be becoming even more of a hindrance to the successful application of 2.0 technologies to solve specific business problems as time goes on: I finally read ' Beware Social Media Snake Oil ' by Stephen Baker in the December 3 issue of BusinessWeek , the ailing old media title recently bought by Bloomberg .

Software: E-mail has severe limitations as an online collaboration tool, but it has the benefit of ubiquity.

There are lots of ways to view Web use at work; now, technology and corporate policies are forcing many IT professionals to take yet another long, hard, and possibly expensive look at what their colleagues are doing online.

CIO Insight looks back at the year's output in information technology, leadership, strategy and management to give you our Top 20.

Andrew McAfee is a principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business at MIT .

Bluenog, an enterprise software and solutions company, recently appointed Joe Valley chief executive officer.

Hi, thanks for coming by... But you should be over at IE Radio tuning into our interview with the man who coined "Enterprise 2.0," Andrew McAfee.

Takeaway: While many developers still debate which tools are optimal for modeling business processes, Bruce Silver has made some strong points on why Business Process Execution Language does not make modeling with Business Process Modeling Notation simpler.

Takeaway: 2010 planning is in full swing at many companies. One thing is clear-organizations are far more data-driven than ever before.

In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - the first and still the best weekly newsletter for tech news and reviews - we present our end-of-year series profiling the best web products of 2009.

What got into my head? During a relative lull in interesting sounding sessions at Enterprise 2.0, I decided to attend the session run by Linden Labs entitled "The Virtual Enterprise: The Future of Work". At the session Linden Labs announced Second Life Enterprise, a behind-the-firewall private virtual world for within an organization.

Social media tools will make companies more efficient but they won't replace business functions.

After nearly three years of exhaustive coverage, I've doubted there's anything really interesting left to say about "Enterprise 2.0." So I was pleasantly surprised to hear Andrew McAfee do just that during his IE Radio interview this week.

Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 47. Our topic this week on BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition centers on how to define, track and influence how people actually adapt to and adopt technology .

Inmagic today announced "Know and Go," a series of free educational resources that give information and knowledge management professionals ideas, insight, and guidance for implementing social knowledge management strategies in their organizations.

On Monday at 6 pm, Andrew McAfee, on expert on businesses adapting Web 2.0 technology, will discuss his new book Enterprise 2.0; The State of an Art in 102 Pound Hall at Harvard Law School.

Gilbane Conference Boston 2009 takes place December 1 - 3, 2009 at the Westin Copley Hotel in Boston.