Special Report
Enterprise 2.0: The New Generation Of Business Collaboration
Social applications in the enterprise -- Enterprise 2.0 technologies -- are beginning to move up the adoption curve. It's an exciting trend but also one where business technology professionals have to serve both as gatekeepers and as adult mediators to help their organizations get it right without succumbing to hype. Here's our round up of coverage of these collaborative technologies, which are accelerating the flow of information to enable organizations to drive revenue and productivity. We'll continue to bring you coverage throughout the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, which runs November 8 - 11 in Santa Clara, Calif.
At Enterprise 2.0 Santa Clara, November 8-11, Calif., organizations offering insight into their social collaboration initiatives include Citibank, Wells Fargo, and the U.S. Department of State.
Critical Thinking
Enterprise Social Vendors Play Own Game Of Survivor
App stores and APIs are signs the social software ecosystem is evolving fast. Which companies will survive, and which will become extinct?
5 Myths About Enterprise Social Networks, Busted
Many common assumptions about enterprise social technology have proven false or become outdated. It's time to reconsider these common myths.
Language Of Social Sounds Too Soft To Business
Why is Enterprise 2.0 still considered more of a "movement" than a business imperative? Its evangelists speak more like Dr. Phil than Jack Welch.
Enterprise 2.0: It's Still About Improving Business Performance
The momentum around Enterprise 2.0 must be harnessed to solve business problems and create new opportunities.
Big Data Meets Social Analytics At Enterprise 2.0
Hear a panel of experts discuss the buzz about measuring buzz and the data analysis technologies behind it at the Enterprise 2.0 Boston conference.
Elsewhere on the Web
Launch Pad Returns to Boston 2011
Enterprise 2.0 Blog
Crystal Ball Sees Tepid IT Growth To 2014
The Register
Can Social Apps Kill Enterprise Software?
Fortune
Microsoft Hopes To Show Its Cloud Power
CNET
Microsoft Favoring HTML5 Over Silverlight: Reports
ZDNet
The Informationweek Buzz
4 Viral Social Software Tips From Enterprise 2.0
Does SharePoint Have Future As A Social Platform?
VMware's Social Chief: Complexity Kills
How Facebook Manages Its Workforce
Genentech Fights Social 'Noise' By Setting Goals
Enterprise 2.0: How We Manage Needs A Reboot
Hackathon Crowdsources Radical Ideas In Management
Enterprise 2.0: Meet The Launch Pad Finalists
Blue Jeans Network Beats Microsoft To Lync, Skype Connection
Enterprise 2.0 Preview: Leading The Charge For Change
NASA Enterprise 2.0 Expert: Graceful Failures OK
Box CEO Sees Need For Enterprise 2.0 Revolution
Don Tapscott To Bring Macrowikinomics To Enterprise 2.0
Intuit QuickBooks For Android Debuts
Broadvision Tackles Customer-Facing Collaboration
Content Management Gets More Social
How American Hospital Association Combined Social, Single Sign-On
How Social Software Boosted Our Supply Chain ROI
First Look: Google Docs Gets Realtime Collaboration
Improved collaboration features and better integration with Microsoft Word are hallmarks of Google's revised Documents app. Our video shows details.
Cisco's Consumer Telepresence: Umi, Oh My, Not So Fast
Cisco built its Umi home telepresence system from scratch, a clear sign that it's serious about the consumer market. But the nifty product will likely struggle if it can't work with other consumer video solutions, especially at its somewhat hefty price.
Wolfe's Den: Top 5 Enterprise 2.0 Roadblocks
Our columnist identifies the challenges which could derail social enterprise tools, as Cisco and IBM battle to turn businesses into Facebook-like collaboration environments. With counterpoint from JP Rangaswami, Murali Sitaram, and Ted Schadler.
Social networks have recently hit a pinnacle of popularity: Facebook has reached 500 million users, and there are now an estimated 105 million people on Twitter. These sites are even outpacing technology that most of us take for granted, such as e-mail. In this report, we'll discuss the problem of inadvertent—and purposeful—information sharing by users of social networks and how to defend your network against related attacks.
Cloud computing is approximately where the Internet was more than a decade ago: full of both promise and hype, and constantly changing. As companies evaluate cloud services, CIOs must help them reach business objectives and save money. Here we address how to determine if cloud computing makes sense, evaluate providers, determine if you need an SLA, and, if so, how to craft a strong agreement.
Ronald Leung, a software engineer at IBM showcases IBM Mashup Center.
At Cloud Connect 2010 in Silicon Valley, Caspio CEO Frank Zamani gives TechWeb.com Editor-in-Chief David Berlind a demonstration of how Caspio.com -- a cloud-based Microsoft Access-like database solution that runs in a browser -- works.
Microsoft's Fuse Labs has a new search engine in beta -- a personal search engine for social media, called Spindex. Microsoft calls it a "brain in the cloud dedicated to your needs." It provides trending on topics that are hot in your network.
Raja Hammound, Group Product Manager at Adobe, at Enterprise 2.0 2009 giving a demo of Adobe LiveCycle ES2
At the annual Cloud Connect conference, DropBox's senior vice president Adam Gross gives TechWeb.com editor-in-chief David Berlind a demonstration of how DropBox enables seamless synchronization of locally saved files (on a PC) to the cloud.
A quick tour of SocialText Desktop
CIsco's Quad brings social networking to the enterprise with its integrated communications platform.
