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Coverage of the SharePoint session at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference on Twitter: MS guy: “Sharepoint is between major versions, so we can’t do all we want to out of the box”WTF squared. that Microsoft guy just said its strategy for master data management was to integrate an acquisition into Sharepoint????MS failing dismally at showing off [...]

Ben Gardner and team have been raising eyebrows at the global Pharmaceutical giant by combing two Microsoft products to create a neat collaboration tool. They are rolling out OneNote to their customers in conjunction with SharePoint to create…..OnePoint ! Yes, they thought of the name all by themselves.We have combined OneNote 2007 with [...]

It’s something I’ve seen a few times now. If you’re the or one of the first people in your organisation to start an internal blog, you can leverage much more influence than if you’re late to the party.I’ve seen people get the ear of the board, senior Vice Presidents, influence company policy, gain exciting [...]

These are my links for June 1st:Phoenix to Earthlings: Iâ??ve Landed! Awesome! - A great example of how anyone can use social tools such as Twitter: Whoever thought a NASA spacecraft could be so adept at social networking and Web 2.0?

The kind people organising the Enterprise 2.0 conference have released one FULL PLATINUM PASS (worth $2,195.00) and one $100 OFF DISCOUNT (or a free Demo Pavilion pass- unlimited) code for me to give away.I’m not attending the conference this year (boo hoo) as I just can’t free up the time at the moment. However, [...]

These are my links for May 19th:Hershey Forms Social Network for Scientists - Simon continues to rock E2.0! In 2006, employees of global pharmaceutical company Pfizer began blogging, thanks to the work of Simon Revell, the company’s manager of Enterprise 2.0 technology development.IT Pros Called Upon to Leverage Web 2.0 - Enterprise demand for IT [...]

Louvain La Neuve, 35 minutes south of Brussels hadn’t featured on my Enterprise 2.0 radar. However, nestled away on a brand new science park, a stone’s throw from the bustling university town is start-up Whatever, and their product Knowledge Plaza.I spent two days at their San Francisco style offices meeting the team, looking at [...]

These are my links for May 12th:Teenagers to take embarrassing ailments to Second Life doctors | Technology | The Guardian - Pharma’s Pay Attention! : Spanish health authorities launched a virtual portal through the Second Life website yesterday designed to help young people too embarrassed to speak to a doctor about sexually transmitted disease or [...]

For MediaWiki fans: A colleague noticed that when entering search terms in WikiPedia it is auto suggesting as you type. This is a massive enhancement as often you need to search an exact term/title to retrieve the desired results.I’m hoping this is being rolled into the general MediaWiki package.

These are my links for May 8th:London Web Week - Seven days of web design and development events, taking place in central London from 26th May to 1st June, 2008.

[image from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/willsisti/268845126/]With Sky Plus (UK) or Tivo (US), you can ’subscribe’ to your favourite programs. You select subscribe and from that point forward the episodes of your favourite shows are stored ready for when you want to view them.It’s the same with websites and RSS. You subscribe to [...]

These are my links for May 2nd:Tubetastic Org Chart on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Hey look. I’m Manager of Human/Tube Interaction! Love it.

I’m pleased to announce the Web 2.0 University is coming to the UK!  I’m working with Dion Hinchcliffe to bring the Web 2.0 Executive Bootcamp to London on the 30th September 2008. The Web 2.0 University is a collection of one-day courses developed by Dion Hinchcliffe and O’Reilly Media (the firm that coined the term Web 2.0).  The deliveries [...]

These are my links for April 29th:Razorfish CEO joins new AV venture - Austin Business Journal: - Enterprise Software Gets Sexy Again: Austin Ventures has bet $50 million on top Razorfish executive Jeffrey Dachis to create a social networking platform for corporations.twistori - This is a very impressive and unique Twitter visualisation. Another example [...]

Here’s a short video of my recent trip to Texas. It’s cobbled together with Flickr images, a random song, a video creation script/service and presented through Jumpcut.Why am I publishing this? To demonstrate how by using a bunch of free web based tools it’s now easy to produce this level of content. [...]

These are my links for April 24th:Science 2.0 - A shift away from peer review to open market sharing and review of data. Open Access, Science of the Future

These are my links for April 22nd:BBC NEWS | Technology | Web 2.0 is set for spending boom - From the MAINSTREAM BBC: Web 2.0 is set to be embraced by Enterprise 2.0 as businesses prepare to spend nearly $5 billion by 2013 on social networking tools.

These are my links for April 11th:A Guide to Business Development 2.0 - ReadWriteWeb - Nothing stays constant in this world. The technology, the web and the society always evolve. Business development evolves along with everything else and lead generation has been changing along with methods of communication.

These are my links for April 2nd:10 things IT needs to know about Ajax - Network World - Pretty good aticle on AJAX and what you should (as an IT Pro) know about it.Legal reasons to make intranets, extranets and software accessible | OUT-LAW.COM - “If people haven’t seen it, this is a really good [...]

This is taken directly from the Wikinomics blog - brilliant. “They say a picture is worth a thousand words and I think this one sums up the power of wiki collaboration better than any 1,000 word essay ever could. The model is courtesy of Chris Rasmussen at US National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. I presented this slide [...]

One of the reasons take up of social media within organisations is slower than people anticipated, often comes down to justification to management. On one hand you’d think that the relative low cost and overhead of social media deployments would mean take up would be high. On the other hand you are faced with [...]

Earlier on today, I was at home looking in vain for the little usb cable for my new camera (Lumix TZ3).  I couldn’t find it so thought I must have left it in my office.   The trouble is I seem to be collecting office space at the moment and I’ve been at each of them in the last week.  [...]

These are my links for March 14th:Social Glass » Is Enterprise 2.0 Relevant only to â??Doersâ??? - Great post from Jeremy where he examines what E2.0 is to management: “Iâ??m not convinced that Enterprise 2.0 is a platform through which Management will track milestones and KPIs. Managers donâ??t operate in the â??Detailâ?? layer.”

These are my links for March 12th:Is Drupal Finally Enterprise Ready| Content Management Blog | InformationWeek - More discussion around how Drupal is gearing up to enter the enterprise market. I know first hand how Drupal is perceived by large organisations, so I’m really glad to see the little guy step up and show [...]

These are my links for March 11th:Andrew McAfee - McAffee asks: What is most important for success with Enterprise 2.0? Some suggestions: Tools are intuitive and easy to use, patient and dedicated evangelists exist,  people are trusted, there is pent-up demand for better information sharing.EverNote.com - Great application. You clip stuff from the [...]

These are my links for March 4th:Wired::How-To Wiki - This is one of the slickest/most original Mediawiki implimentations I have seen.

Ubuntu, the user friendly Linux distribution, launched Ubuntu Brainstorm this week. Inspired by IdeaStorm from Dell, the Ubuntu community can now suggest ideas and vote online. Its goal is to have a better idea of what Ubuntu users would like to see in upcoming Ubuntu releases.As a user you can add your ideas [...]

Well he did it. Meet Charlie went past 100,000 views sometime last week. Who would have thought this simple presentation on such a niche topic would be so widely viewed. Interestingly the most viewed (of all time) slideshow on slideshare.net is a Spanish one telling you how to create a Hotmail account, [...]

Yesterday I took part in a meeting with approx 100 people from a multinational company. It was a regular meeting with regular outcomes but there was a twist. The meeting was held in a business equivalent of Second Life. 100 people from around the world immersed themselves in a virtual environment for [...]

Jeremy Thomas asks the question here in a recent blog post. It’s a fair question and one I’ve been thinking about with for a while. The answer is yes, people are making money in Enterprise 2.0. I think the point is because Enterprise 2.0 comes in many different flavours and shades of [...]