In a new series of articles, E20portal.com will be assessing recent Enterprise 2.0 reports from leading industry analysts and research organisations. In our first article we explore the awareness and perception of Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0.

Our recent featured blog post from Bill Ives and Andrew McAfee’s 'Enterprise 2.0: The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration' both point out that Web 2.0 for consumers is not the same as Web 2.0 in the enterprise.  KPMG's 2007 report - 'Enterprise 2.0: Future or Fad?' - defines key Enterprise 2.0 terms from a business perspective and describes how Enterprise 2.0 can bring real business value.

Forrester Research however regularly uses the term ‘Enterprise Web 2.0’. The lack of a single reference term among analysts continues to create confusion.  This confusion may inhibit the uptake of new business oriented tools because many businesses are wary of giving users access to consumer Web 2.0 products.

This is the second in a series of articles in which E20portal.com will be featuring some of the best blog's from the world of Enterprise 2.0.

Andrew McAfee is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He coined the term 'Enterprise 2.0' in the Spring 2006 MIT Sloan Management Review article: Enterprise 2.0: The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration. Andrew discusses the impact of information technology (IT) on businesses and their leaders at his influential Harvard Business School Blog.

	Andrew P. McAfee
	Associate Professor of Business Administration
	Andrew McAfee joined the faculty of the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School in 1998. His current research includes an exploration of how Web 2.0 technologies can be used within the enterprise, and what their impact is likely to be.

We have selected five of Andrew's most informative and thought-provoking blog posts from the past two years. In these featured entries Andrew explores alternatives to overloaded email and discusses the organisational challenges of technological and cultural change. The posts can be read in full by following the title links below . . .

This is the first of a series of articles in which E20portal.com will be featuring some of the best blog's from the world of Enterprise 2.0. The authors will be helping us by personally selecting some of their favourite posts. Our first featured blog is from Bill Ives.

Bill is a prolific and well known industry blogger contributing to leading group blogs including Corante, The App Gap and the Fast Forward Blog. Bill also shares ideas and generates discussion on Enterprise 2.0, business blogs, Web 2.0 and knowledge management at his own Portals and KM blog.

	Bill Ives
	Independent consultant, writer, and speaker
	Bill has spent over 25 years as a consultant and writer working with Fortune 100 companies in knowledge management, portals, and learning, and most recently is helping firms with their market facing blogs. For several years he led the client Knowledge Management Practice within the Human Performance Service Line at Accenture.

Bill has selected some of his top blog posts to be featured on E20portal.com. His first selection examines the different approach needed to trust blogs compared with old media. His second post explores the fundamental differences between Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0, and the real business value this new social approach can bring. These posts can be read in full by following the title links below . . .

We've updated our Enterprise 2.0 Events List to include all the relevant events we know of happening over the next 12-18 months (if we've missed any please let us know at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ). Included is the Office 2.0 Conference 2008 which is returning to San Francisco this September. It will be the third year for Office 2.0 with IT|Redux promising "a bit more users, a bit less vendors, a bit more fireside chats, a bit less panels, and the usual débauche of sleek high-tech gadgets that is our gathering's trademark." -  look out for more details coming soon as the event is planned in "nine weeks with no staff".

Also updated is our Enterprise 2.0 Vendors Directory. We have started to populate it with Software Vendors, Consultants and System Integrators. If you'd like to add your company to our directory simply click  the 'Add your listing here' link in the appropriate directory section.