Susan Scrupski: the Enterprise Irregular blogger; consultant; Office 2.0 conference organizer and generally very busy person, kindly blogged about E20portal.com last week. Susan said "The site is free and should be on everyone's feed reader. Make sure you check it out." Thanks Susan for the great endorsement and linking to the site. Also, our further gratitude goes to Bill Ives for continuing to spread the E20portal.com word with the AppGap group blog.

Before setting up E20portal.com we thought there was a real untapped demand for this type of service and it looks like we were right. At the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston we were overwhelmed by the interest and postive feedback the site recieved. This interest has continued and is gaining more momentum with the support and help of the E2.0 community. Please let us know your thoughts on what you would like to see from the site using our feedback

We've been very busy behind the scenes at E20portal.com and have rolled out some significant improvements over the last few days.

Resources

Our resources section has been overhauled and now includes our featured blogs, case studies and industry reports all in one section. Access the top-level resources page via the link on the main menu to see all resource items in a single view, alternatively use the drop-down options to go to a specific category.

Industry Reports

We've updated our industry reports layout to make it clearer and more accessible. All reports are now included in the resources section. We'll be adding more reports in the coming weeks.

About Enterprise 2.0

We've created a new landing page for our ‘About Enterprise 2.0' section. We hope it will help you navigate through the content more easily. Access the new page via the ‘Enterprise 2.0' link on the main menu. We have much more to come in this space so keep an eye out for future updates.

Front Page

If you've visited our front page this week you've probably noticed our new feature rotator.  This will give us a place to keep you up to date on the new features we publish. We can also use it to draw attention to changes that aren't visible from the front-page - we wouldn't want you to miss out on anything :).

As always we'd love to hear your comments and feedback on what we've been up to. Let us know what you thoughts are in our comments or at info@e20portal.com.  

We'd like to give Bill Ives a big THANK YOU for writing about and supporting E20portal.com on Monday this week. I met Bill at the Boston Enterprise 2.0 event in June and he kindly agreed to for us to run a feature on his KM & Portals blog. Bill finished his post saying "Kudos to Nick and his partners for starting this resource. We should support these efforts."

Following Bill's post we received an overwhelming response including lots of new members and suggestions for other Bloggers to feature (including Dion Hinchcliffe). We also received several new vendors and events entries which have now been published in our Vendor Directory and Events sections.  The new additions illustrate the international nature of Enterprise 2.0, with Connectbeam in California USA, iTKO LISA SOA in Dallas USA, WorkLight in Massachusetts/Israel and an event, 'Unwrapping the potential of Enterprise 2.0' in Hong Kong. We thank these suppliers for their

You may have noticed that some of the links on the front page have changed. We've made changes to the right column for easier site navigation. These links now provides direct access to content elsewhere in the site, you'll be able to find articles about Enterprise 2.0 benefits and technologies plus much more.

We have more changes planned as well as lot's of exciting new content and articles.

PS. We've also fixed the image corruption bugs that IE6 users were

Want to keep up to date with the latest E20portal.com updates?  We have three RSS feeds to help:

1. Updates Feed (the main site feed from the E20portal.com front page)
2. Events Feed (this will be updated as we add new events)
3. Blog feed (entries from the E20portal.com blog)

We have split our updates into three sections to make it easy for you to keep up to date on the areas you are most intereted in.

Our feeds are powered by FeedBurner, so it's easy to subscribe using any popular news reader including Google, MyYahoo and Newsgater.  Just click the feed icon on the appropriate page and follow the instructions.

PS. All three feeds are also avaiable via email

E20portal.com is now running at full speed. If you participated in our beta phase you'll notice a huge difference in performance with much faster loading times. We've also switched on our RSS feed and email subscriptions for the main site (a separate feed for this blog is coming). Subscribe today to ensure you don't miss any of the updates we have lined up for the next few days, including reports and analysis for the Enterprise 2.0 conference held in Boston last week.

We have lots of exciting new features and content in the pipeline so check back

We're at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel for the Enterprise 2.0 Conference. and have been pitching E20portal.com to people we've met, we've and also handed out promo cards to a bunch of folks. The response so far has been very positive - it seems that there is a real demand for what we are trying to do.

The majority of the constructive feedback has been around the slowness of the site. We chose to open up our beta site for feedback to coincide with the Boston event, as a result we had go public on our development platform - our top priority is to move the site to our production servers, we hope to complete this by the end of next week.

Thank you for persevering, we appreciate your patience.

Welcome to the E20portal.com blog. We hope you are enjoying your E20portal.com experience and getting value from the website. Consider this a 1.0 version, we have great plans to develop E20portal.com further and would love to hear you’re feedback . You may stumble across some bugs, for this we apologise, if you do please  let us know via email or leave a comment below.
 
We will be adding more content over the coming weeks, so keep a look out and subscribe to site updates via the RSS or mail links on the front page.

Nick & Simon

The E20portal.com Team