OK so everyone hates the 2.0 attachment, but also everyone knows what we - loosely speaking at least - mean by it. A couple of articles on the subject of enterprise 2.0 caught my eye in the past day or two.
Bill Gates took time in his last CIO Summit speech (a big MS enterprise customer event) to talk about the role of social media in enabling enterprise 2.0.
In parallel, CIO magazine published an overview of the use of SharePoint in providing a backbone for collaborative working.
We have a bit of a vested interest in this discussion. We strongly believe in the positive benefits of applying enterprise 2.0 tools and techniques within organizations (although technology is perhaps the smallest aspect of the challenge).
In our case we use Microsoft SharePoint ourselves and our software division implements SharePoint for clients. There are alternatives, and I'm sure they are great too. But we opted to build expertise in SharePoint.
In a curious situation, Microsoft itself is a client. Yes, we build SharePoint sites for Microsoft. In fact, before SPS 2007 was launched last year, we had already completed over 100 SharePoint sites for Microsoft. Some were simple, some were complex, some involved social media tools, others required tight integration with other aspects of MOSS, Exchange or SQL Server.
This privileged position, supporting the ultimate early adopter, means we have seen the benefits at firsthand and have learnt many lessons about how to build and deploy SharePoint, and, most importantly, to ensure successful adoption.
If you have an interest in enterprise 2.0 and / or the use of SharePoint, you might want to come along to this event and join in the discussion.
Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Enterprise 2.0
Disclosure: yes, this post did turn into a bit of a pitch, oops