Euan Semple has selected several posts for our latest featured blog. 

Euan has extensive real world experience of Enterprise 2.0 cultural adoption in the enterprise. He uses his experience as an independent social computing consultant. Euan has a personal and business blog, he also writes for the Fastforward blog. Euan is a regular international speaker on Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0.

	Euan Semple
	Independent advisor and consultant
	Euan Semple is an independent advisor on social computing for business. He is a well known writer, thinker and public speaker on the subject and in recognition of his many accomplishments he was voted Information Professional Of The Year (2005) by Information World Review.

Euan has selected five of his most interesting and thought-provoking blog posts from the past two years. In these featured entries Euan explores the easiest way to do Enterprise 2.0, individual responsiveness and openness to change, and how to actively encouraged the adoption of Enterprise 2.0. He also looks at the reasons why companies fail at Enterprise 2.0. The posts can be read in full by following the title links below . . .

E20portal.com's Enterprise 2.0 news summary and links of interest for September 2008. Features this month include product announcements from ScoialText, Connectbeam, MindTouch and JobBlogs, a new whitepaper from Awarness, Inc., and the latest event reports.

Industry Reports

Awareness Whitepaper: Trends and Best Practices in Adopting Web 2.0 in 2008 Awareness, Inc. have released a report exploring business adoption of Web 2.0 technologies and the future of social media initiatives. Their findings suggest that employers are increasingly allowing staff to use social media applications in working hours. ReadWriteWeb provide further analysis of the findings.

Ismael Ghalimi's Office 2.0 2008 conference is over for another year. This year's theme was 'Enterprise Adoption' with case studies and panel discussions featuring speakers from EMC, Disney, Wachovia and more. The Office 2.0 community site includes details of all sessions, including video recordings as well as attendee blogs and comments. Susan Scrupski has written an excellent conference wrap-up, Ben Kepes also has provided comprehensive Day-1 and Day-2 reports at ReadWriteWeb.

Many of the sessions were focused around end-user case studies. We've highlighted some of most popular below and included links to additional reports and comments... 

E20portal.com's Enterprise 2.0 news summary and links of interest for August 2008. Features this month include product announcements from Atlassian, EMC, Jive and Six Apart, a new Gartner Hype Cycle release, and the latest event reports...
 

Industry Reports

Gartner 2008 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies The Gartner 2008 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies identifies 27 emerging technologies and predicts that eight of these will have a transformational business impact. Predictions include Social Computing Platforms, Cloud Computing and MicroBlogging. CMSWire and Martin Koser (of Frogpond) comment on the findings.