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Ahead of the Enterprise 2.0 Forum on Tuesday, this morning I asked a question on Twitter:

"If you have time, I'd love your input: what was the first thing you did to get social media/enterprise 2.0 going in your organisation?"

I got a range of answers and resources, not to mention an upwards spiralling conversation around the contrast of getting started in a large enterprise versus an SME or startup. Everything up to the time of posting this is copied in below (conversations have been grouped for ease of reading).

You have to love Twitter and how you can reach out to a network you know will be able to provide suitable, relevant and interesting answers. There's also a good chance you will get gems of detail and sharing of experience, like that provided by Jennie Bewes at Vodafone Australia and several others, which resulted in more discussions via direct messages.

“What do you do when someone in your team just won’t collaborate via the blog, or share their knowledge on the team wiki? What do you do with team members like that?”


This was one of the questions in the roundtable sessions at the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum. I was on the table covering “Culture and adoption issues”.

The idealistic answer, of course, is to ask, “Do you really want that person on your team?”

But, in reality, is it really that simple?

Cross posted from The Melcrum Blog

I spent most of today at the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum, run by The Future Exploration Network. While it's all still fresh in the memory, here's a quick report.

Run from 8.30am-2pm the event took place at breakneck pace, and covered a massive amount on the topic of social media and Web 2.0 in the workplace. There was much talk of knowledge and knowledge workers, easing employee frustrations, helping individuals to do their jobs more easily, differentiating to attract and retain the best talent and increasing employee engagement (yes, all of this in just 5.5 hours).

Euan Semple dialled into the conference over Skype and I have to say that the connection robustness was impressive. There was me thinking it was going to be something much more complex, but it wasn't needed. Very tempted to suggest it as an option for a conference we're holding in May.

Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum

Conference theme

Creating value from enterprise 2.0

In next 20 years, the doubling in value of the global of economy will be down to ideas, knowledge and innovation, not hard goods.

The web 2.0 phenomenon

Critical point was the launch of blogger in 1999.

“’Participation’ is the main factor in this phenomenon.”

Consumer activity flowing into the enterprise

Execs looking over their children’s shoulders to get ideas.

Business drivers for enterprise 2.0

competition intensifies, harder to do business, harder to get talent.

Organisations are now networks - emphasised. “CEO no longer the most central person”

The formal, hierarchical structure of organisations is not how it is in reality. It’s much more informal, it’s about creating value (check)

Now it’s about the communication, where’s the collaboration. People go to people, not databases.

What is Enterprise 2.0?

Web 2.0 tools in the organisation: it’s what businesses must become.

Discussing Enterprise 2.0 framework 

(link: Interview with Ross Dawson: http://www.melcrumblog.com/2007/09/interview-with-.html)

State of Enterprise 2.0 in Australia

Financial services web 2.0 activity is world class. Leading globally. Investment and retails banks.

Westpac is the standout example in Australia: Blogs, Second Life etc.

CBA & NAB also have pockets of activity.

Saving & Loans - CEO - blogger Greg Connor

Large Australian organisations do have initiatives beginning:

Media, government (including NZ gov), financial services, professional services, Agriculture, Tech companies all moving in this field.

Some contrast in what companies are doing externally but blocking their employees from accessing internally - second life for example is often blocked.

"2008 will be the year of Enterprise 2.0 in Australia."

Web 2.0 is a key aspect of attracting people in a competitive environment [for talent]

Web 2.0 & Governance

Understanding the risks, and understand the value. 

There’s a lack of understanding in Australia about the risks. 

Lessons for enterprise 2.0

Start with business apps

Make work easier

Build strategies at the architecture level

Ross Dawson’s slides for today: http://tinyurl.com/2hhvk4