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.

At E20portal.com we used several of the most popular Enterprise 2.0 definitions to shape our own description of Enterprise 2.0.  In this article we list the definitions that helped us the most...
 
 

In the third of our series of Enterprise 2.0 Blogs we feature Dion Hinchliffe.

Dion Hinchcliffe is the founder and chief technology officer for the Enterprise Web 2.0 advisory and consulting firm Hinchcliffe & Company. He is a regular speaker on the topics of Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0, and authors blogs at Social Computing Magazine and ZDNet.

	Dion Hinchcliffe
	Founder and CTO, Hinchcliffe & Company
	A veteran of software development, Dion has been working for two decades with leading-edge methods to accelerate project schedules and raise the bar for software quality. He has extensive practical experience with enterprise technologies and he consults, speaks, and writes prolifically on IT and software architecture.

Dion's has helped us select five of his ZDNet posts from the past two years. In these entries Dion discusses the evolving Enterprise 2.0 landscape, key differences between the web and the enterprise, and provides a framework for successful Enterprise 2.0 adoption. The posts can be read in full by following the title links below . . .

In this third article following on from 'Market Research suggests Enterprise 2.0 confusion' and 'How big is the Enterprise 2.0 pie?' we now examine what Enterprise's say they want from Enterprise 2.0. 

With growing interest in Web 2.0 tools for the Enterprise, large firms are becoming increasingly familiar with the technologies and benefits available from Enterprise 2.0. The "Social Media in the Inc. 500: The First Longitudinal Study" by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research found that firms are increasingly claiming to be "very familiar" with the tools. The highest increase in familiarity being social networking which is up from 42% in 2007 to 57% in 2008. The Enterprise Irregular blogger and ZDNet writer Dennis Howlett commented on this research.