2011 Media Coverage

Enterprise 2.0 Roll-up: Telligent Enterprise 3.0, SharePoint 3.0 and Tibbr 3.0 Make Waves
By Chelsi Nakano
June 30, 2011
CMS Wire
Perhaps we need to change our Enterprise 2.0 roll-up to the Enterprise 3.0 roll-up? This week Telligent Enterprise 3.0, SharePoint 3.0 and Tibbr 3.0 all hit the market with new features.

Starting the Social Stampede
By Denis Pombriant
June 29, 2011
CRM Buyer
At the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston last week, I got an eyeful of the reality. It's still very early in this market's evolution. The vendors are all lined up, including the small innovators and the big companies looking to cash in by being fast followers.

Fifth Annual Enterprise 2.0 Conference Illuminates Current State of Social in Organizations
By Larry Hawes
June 29, 2011
Dow Brook
Milestone birthdays customarily spark reflection on the past and future of the celebrant. The Enterprise 2.0 Conference celebrated its 5th birthday last week with a solid program of pre-conference workshops, keynote speeches, and breakout sessions.

Enterprise Social Networks And Security Risks
By Jim Rapoza
June 28, 2011
Network Computing
While attending UBM TechWeb's Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston last week, I heard lots of conversations about the benefits and potential pitfalls of enterprise social networking.

Enterprise Social Vendors Play Own Game Of Survivor
By David Carr
June 28, 2011
The BrainYard
I saw a software (and software-as-a-service) ecosystem rapidly evolving at Enterprise 2.0, a UBM TechWeb event, in Boston last week. Some species of software will be extinct a few years from now, but others are warily circling each other trying to figure out how to coexist.

Enterprise 2.0: Seeing from the Back Forward
By Paul Greenberg
June 28, 2011
ZDNet
Okay, before I begin, a confession. I just spent 3 days at the Enterprise 2.0 2011 confab in Boston - and didn't attend a single event that I didn't do. But I have several excuses and I think that I'm still qualified to write what I'm about write.

Enteprise social business: Integration matters
By Michael Krigsman
June 27, 2011
ZDNet
At last week's Enterprise 2.0 conference, held in Boston, I was taken aback when one pundit explained that organizations must learn to "do social."

Enterprise 2.0 shows signs it's growing up
By Ron Miller
June 27, 2011
Fierce Content Management
Last week as I attended the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston, it occurred to me the space was growing up a bit.

5 Myths About Enterprise Social Networks, Busted
By Jim Rapoza
June 24, 2011
InformationWeek
After attending UBM TechWeb's Enterprise 2.0 Conference the last few years, along with covering enterprise social networking since its beginnings, I've seen regular changes in how enterprise social networking is perceived and what the main challenges facing its adoption are.

Empowering Human Movements: 7 Observations about the State of Social Business
By Brian Vellmure
June 24, 2011
Customer Think
This week, I've had the privilege to participate in the Sales 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 conferences in Boston, MA.

Enterprise 2.0: The business world is all about beating your competitors
By Oliver Marks
June 24, 2011
ZDNet
The Enterprise 2.0 Conference moved venue this year to the huge Hynes Conference Center in the heart of Boston, as befits the central role the movement's thinking and technologies is now playing in the enterprise world, particularly in marketing messaging.

Complete List of My 2011 Enterprise 2.0 Boston Conference Notes
By Bill Ives
June 24, 2011
Fast Forward
Here is the complete series of notes I took on the 2011 Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston so I could remember what I experienced.

Language Of Social Sounds Too Soft To Business
By Rob Preston
June 24, 2011
InformationWeek
In a keynote address at this week's Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston, a UBM TechWeb event, Stepper related spending a good year trying to become the "social media guy" at the bank, culminating in a trip to London to persuade the powers-that-be to invest in a collaboration software platform.

Can Social Media Save Nokia?
By Ron Miller
June 24, 2011
TechTarget
Nokia's Global Digital Marketing Manager Ming Kwan spoke earlier this week at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston and outlined the company's social media marketing vision to help sell phones running Windows Phone 7 when they emerge later this year...

You have to dig deeper into the data
By Ron Miller
June 24, 2011
Real Time Monitoring
Lee Bryant, who works at Headshift, a UK consulting firm, spoke earlier this week at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston on the data-action conundrum.

How Social Software Boosted Our Supply Chain ROI
By David Carr
June 23, 2011
The BrainYard
At Enterprise 2.0, a UBM TechWeb event in Boston, TEVA Canada VP of supply chain Tony Martins gave a short presentation as part of a keynote with Tom Kelly, CEO of Moxie Software, and a longer one Wednesday afternoon.

DoubleDutch Drives Mobile Collaboration
By Madeline Senkosky
June 23, 2011
CMS Wire
The mobile-only company created quite the chatter at the Enterprise 2.0 conference, and initiated some thought from other companies to further develop mobile options within their own systems.

IBM Offers Social Compliance Connections
By David Roe
June 23, 2011
CMS Wire
This week, IBM was at the enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, where it launched IBM Connections, a social networking platform with real-time compliance capabilities, Verizon opens a new risk management service, Clearwell extends reach of e-Discovery and Cintas achieves NAID certification.

Enterprise 2.0 Roll-up: #e2conf Highlights, Empire Avenue & Skype Facebook
By Chelsi Nakano
June 23, 2011
CMS Wire
For this week's roll-up we've got some of the hottest news from this year's Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, as well as some thoughts on your digital worth.

Content Management Gets More Social
By David Carr
June 23, 2011
The BrainYard
OpenText deepened the integration between its social platform and enterprise content management software, announcing availability of the new version at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, a UBM TechWeb event.

Enterprise 2.0 Introduces a World of Networks of Networks
By Alan Radding
June 23, 2011
Bottom Line IT
Enterprise 2.0, the annual conference focused on social media, was held in Boston this week with IBM, Cisco, and Microsoft as major sponsors. The conference makes available a wealth of useful information, mainly in the form of white papers and videos of the keynote presentations, for free.

BroadVision Clearvale for Social CRM Launched
By Carolyn Dawson
June 23, 2011
TMCNet
The Clearvale solution for Social Customer Relationship Management or CRM is now available. An announcement in this regard was made by BroadVision, Inc. at the Enterprise 2.0 show.

OpenText Social Workplace Introduced at Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston
June 23, 2011
RFP Connect
OpenText announced the availability of the next major release of OpenText Social Workplace, a fully integrated social collaboration environment designed to help purpose-driven teams assemble, stay connected, and achieve breakthrough results.

Enterprise 2.0 Conference Touts Social, Product Announcements
By Kristin Burnham
June 22, 2011
CIO
Social tools, collaboration and social CRM were hot topics at the Enterprise 2.0 conference this week, which kicked off Monday in Boston. From industry veterans such as Microsoft, IBM and Cisco to startups new on the social scene, more than 40 exhibitors and 100 speakers shared the spotlight to promote and discuss the latest trends and technologies.

Execs get ready: Workers will soon be running companies
By Sharon Gaudin
June 22, 2011
Computerworld
That's the message Sara Roberts, president and CEO of Roberts Golden Consulting, told an audience at the annual Enterprise 2.0 conference here on Wednesday.

I Didn't Fail the Test, I Just Found 100 Ways to Do It Wrong
By Steve Raddick
June 22, 2011
Customer Think
I've written before about the need to start talking about failures at conferences so that others may learn, so that's why I was excited to attend Kevin Jones' presentation, "Enterprise 2.0 Failures - And What We Learn From Them," yesterday at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference here in Boston.

Save Collaboration From Supercomputer Takeover!
By Nicole Ferraro
June 22, 2011
Internet Evolution
Five years ago, McAfee wrote a paper posing the question, "Wouldn't it be interesting to take Web 2.0 technologies and bring them inside the company?" During his keynote here at Enterprise 2.0 yesterday, he was happy to report that the answer is now, clearly, "yes."

Cisco Launches New Deployment Model for Quad Platform
By Calvin Azuri
June 22, 2011
TMCNet
Cisco has announced a new deployment model for Cisco Quad Platform at Enterprise 2.0. The enterprise collaboration platform will be now offered as a hosted and managed deployment model.

It's Time to Delight the Social Customer
By Denis Pombriant
June 22, 2011
CRM Buyer
Denning is pointing out that it might be time to think again about corporate responsibilities and duties; Benioff is providing at least some of the how-to, and energy. Both men have a lot of work to do, but at least the journey has started. That's why social is inevitable and why the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston this week is bigger and more important than ever.

Future Tech Jobs: We Need Social Science Graduates
By Rawn Shah
June 22, 2011
Forbes
In hearing the keynotes yesterday, a discussion following the keynote by John Hagel of Deloitte on Twitter raised the question on having more sociologists in the enterprise.

2011 Enterprise 2.0 Conference Notes for Tuesday June 21
By Bill Ives
June 22, 2011
Fast Forward
This is the fifth year I have attended the event and it continues to be a great place to stay current with the ideas and people in this space.

Clearvale Social CRM Integrates Customer Engagement Channels for Better Communication
By J. Angelo Racoma
June 22, 2011
CMS Wire
Broadvision, makers of the Clearvale set of enterprise collaboration applications, has announced the release of its latest social CRM solution.

Enterprise 2.0: Enterprise exec imagines IT team as hero, again
June 22, 2011
IT Business Net
Jive Software SVP Chris Morace talked about how enterprises are under seige and how IT can come to the resuce at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston.

Day 2 Enterprise 2.0 Conference Keynotes: The Consumerprise, Contextography & Evolution
By Chelsi Nakano
June 22, 2011
CMS Wire
Today's keynotes at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston moved just as quickly as they did yesterday. Here's a quick look at advice from four of the industry's thought leaders on everything from Enterprise 2.0 vs. Social Business to best practices for better business via enterprise software.

How To Plug SharePoint's Social Holes
By David Carr
June 22, 2011
The BrainYard
Microsoft and SharePoint were only occasionally in the forefront of the conversations this week at Enterprise 2.0, a UBM TechWeb event, but ever-present in the background.

Enterprise 2.0 and the VC Industry
By Denis Pombriant
June 22, 2011
Enterprise Irregulars
Enterprise 2.0 came to Boston this week and it provided an interesting snapshot of an emerging market.

Enterprise 2.0 Is Growing Up
By Russ Garland
June 22, 2011
Wall Street Journal
The business opportunity continues to lure major software companies, as indicated by the fact that Adobe, Avaya and Oracle set up booths for the first time at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, now in its seventh year.

Collaborating to Turn Passion Into Performance
By Nicole Ferraro
June 21, 2011
Internet Evolution
BOSTON, Enterprise 2.0 -- Recently on Internet Evolution, we ran a poll asking users the following: "Do you use and contribute to your corporate Wiki?"

Learning From Our Enterprise 2.0 Failures
By Madeline Senkosky
June 21, 2011
CMS Wire
"I am Kevin, and I have failed." Sound familiar? Kevin Jones, Social Media & Network Strategist/Manager for NASA/MSFC, opened his Enterprise 2.0 conference session with the famous introduction, similar to what is heard at the beginning of an Alcoholics Anonymous' support group meeting.

Acquia announces open source, cloud social solution
By Ron Miller
June 21, 2011
Fierce Content Management
At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston this week, Acquia announced Acquia Commons 2.0, a cloud-based, community website-building tool based on the open source web content management system Drupal.

DoubleDutch's HYVE App Suite Aims to Improve Enterprise-Level Productivity
By Tom Cheredar
June 21, 2011
New York Times
DoubleDutch, a startup that produces enterprise mobile applications, announced the release of its new HYVE suite of enterprise apps at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference today.

The Changing Face of Sales Management
By Rawn Shah
June 21, 2011
Forbes
At Sales2.0 and Enterprise2.0 conferences this week in Boston, I'm looking forward to hearing more on the state of the industry, and how enterprises may be changing in the increasing interconnected, transparent, and engaged world that is possible through social Business.

Social Software Needs Metrics That Matter
By David Carr
June 21, 2011
The BrainYard
Deloitte's John Hagel says enterprise social networking can help people find a passion for work and boost business performance during an Enterprise 2.0 keynote address.

Serve 'Customer 2.0' well or perish
By Sharon Gaudin
June 21, 2011
Computerworld
Brett Shockley, a senior vice president at telecommunications firm Avaya, issued warnings about the consequences of ignoring the needs of Customer 2.0 in a keynote speech Tuesday morning at the annual Enterprise 2.0 conference here.

Old Fashioned Bosses Threaten Enterprise 2.0 Progress
By David Carr
June 21, 2011
The BrainYard
In that 2006 article, he asked whether "this weird set of technologies we see on the Web under the Web 2.0 label" could be applied to real business problems, he recalled in a keynote address at Enterprise 2.0 Boston, a UBM TechWeb event.

DoubleDutch's HYVE app suite aims to improve enterprise-level productivity
By Tom Cheredar
June 21, 2011
Venture Beat
DoubleDutch, a startup that produces enterprise mobile applications, announced the release of its new HYVE suite of enterprise apps at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference today.

OpenText's Social Workplace Integrates Records Management, Governance
By David Roe
June 21, 2011
CMS Wire
If you feel sometimes that you may as well be hanging around the water cooler as using some social media applications for the amount of collaborative work you get done, it might be worth having a look at OpenText's Social Workplace v2, which is being announced at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston today.

Finding balance between protection and openness
By Ron Miller
June 21, 2011
Fierce Content Management
As we head to the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston this week, it seems an appropriate time to explore the tension many organizations are feeling between the desire to secure content, while at the same time sharing it in an open way using Enterprise 2.0 collaboration tools.

IBM Aims to Bring Social Media Into Compliance
By Sidney Hill
June 21, 2011
E-Commerce Times
IBM is expected to formally announce the new solution -- called "Actiance Vantage for IBM Connections" on Tuesday, the opening day of the Enterprise 2.0 conference taking place this week in Boston, but the solution won't be available for purchase until the third quarter of the year.

Upcoming Trend in Enterprise: SoLoMo - Mobile, Social, Local
By Madeline Senkosky
June 21, 2011
CMS Wire
As a growing trend in new software and app development, four masterminds of the SoLoMo market discussed at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston what they see as the future for enterprises in the mobile market.

DoubleDutch Checks In Business Activities
By David Carr
June 21, 2011
The BrainYard
DoubleDutch checked in at Enterprise 2.0, a UBM Tech Web event, in Boston Tuesday with a suite of location-aware apps for the enterprise.

Cisco Makes Quad Social Software a Hosted Service
By Jeffrey Burt
June 20, 2011
eWeek
At the Enterprise 2.0 show in Boston June 20, Cisco officials rolled out a number of announcements around its year-old Quad offering, including the upcoming release of Quad 2.5 which will include tight integration with a host of content management and instant messaging platforms from the likes of IBM, EMC and Microsoft, and a mobile application for their Cius enterprise tablet.

IBM Boosts Social Software Compliance
By David Carr
June 20, 2011
The BrainYard
At UBM TechWeb's Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston Monday, IBM said it will resell the Actiance solution as an add-on to IBM Connections, its social software platform.

How To Sell Enterprise 2.0 To The Bosses
By David Carr
June 20, 2011
The BrainYard
The practicalities of making that internal sale were the focus of a workshop at UBM TechWeb's Enterprise 2.0 Conference Monday led by Sovos Group consultants Oliver Marks and Sameer Patel, with help from a panel of vendor executives who sell social software for a living.

Socialtext Integrates Project Management with Socialtasks
By Chelsi Nakano
June 20, 2011
CMSWire
As usual, many new technologies and addons are rolling out of this week's Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston. Among them, an integrated project management tool from Socaltext.

Socialtext Launches Integrated Project Management Tools
By David Strom
June 20, 2011
ReadWriteWeb
These three enhancements, called Socialtasks, will be available sometime in the third quarter for all Socialtext customers and were demonstrated today at the Enterprise 2.0 Boston conference.

What's Wrong with Enterprise Software Anyway?
By Klint Finley
June 20, 2011
ReadWriteWeb
On the occasion of the kick-off of Enterprise 2.0 in Boston, Forbes blogger Haydn Shaughnessy writes:

Cisco Launches New Deployment Model for Cisco Quad Platform
By Robbie Pleasant
June 20, 2011
UCStrategies
Cisco, at Enterprise 2.0, announced the offering of its Cisco Quad enterprise collaboration platform in a hosted and managed deployment model.

Social Business Leaders Speak Up: 9 Suggestions For Enterprise 2.0
By David Lavenda
June 20, 2011
Fast Company
Social continues to be one of the most talked about enterprise trends (for those whose heads aren't in the 'cloud'). So it's not surprising how much of this year's Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston (20-23 June) is dedicated to the social aspects of business. Below are 9 sessions that I find particularly interesting.

Stakes Higher in 2011 as Enterprise 2.0 Kicks off in Boston
By Haydn Shaughnessy
June 20, 2011
Forbes
News from inside the Enterprise 2.0 camp is good: the long wait for a critical mass of customers is over; sales are up; enterprises are buying into the concept and the package. Enterprise 2.0 has endured something of a rocky ride with sales stalled for many vendors through 2010. The Enterprise 2.0 Conference, which kicks off today in Boston, though is buzzing.

Social Business Forum Highlights - Highlights from Breakout Sessions and Final Keynote
By Luis Suarez
June 20, 2011
elsua.net
Once again, I am on the road on to another business trip. This time around to Boston, MA, to attend and present at *the* Enterprise 2.0 event of events.

IBM's Presence at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference
By Luis Benitez
June 20, 2011
Socialize Me
I'm in the midst of packing my bags to head out to the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston. As I looked through the agenda, I noticed that IBM has quite a presence at this year's conference. I also notice that there are more Diamond sponsors than last year. Last year, only Microsoft and IBM were the only Diamond sponsors. Other big vendors have joined this year which continues to validate the importance of this field.

ENTERPRISE 2.0, SOCIAL BUSINESS, AND WORK MEDIA
By Stowe Boyd
June 20, 2011
Stowe Boyd.com
Andrew McAfee will be keynoting the Enterprise 2.0 conference this week, and sets that up by noting that it's been five years since his paper of that name was published in the Sloan Management Review.

My 2011 Enterprise 2.0 Conference Notes: Summary of E2.0 Black Belt Practitioner's Workshop
By Bill Ives
June 20, 2011
Fast Forward blog
I attended the excellent E2.0 Black Belt Practitioner's In-Depth Workshop. Susan Scrupski is the organizer.

IDC Names IBM Worldwide Marketshare Leader in Social Software Platforms
By Luis Benitez
June 20, 2011
Technorati
The release of the report is very timely as the Enterprise 2.0 Boston Conference kicks off today. In this year's report, IDC looks at the social software market for the 2008-2010 period.

IBM Offers Real-time Compliance for Connections 3.1, A Data Center for Japan
By Barb Mosher
June 20, 2011
CMS Wire
IBM has made a couple of announcements today kicking off their Enterprise 2.0 Conference focus.

Enterprise 2.0: It's Still About Improving Business Performance
By Steve Wylie
June 20, 2011
The BrainYard
The momentum around Enterprise 2.0 must be harnessed to solve business problems and create new opportunities.

Finding balance between protection and openness
By Ron Miller
June 19, 2011
Fierce Content Managemetn
As we head to the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston this week, it seems an appropriate time to explore the tension many organizations are feeling between the desire to secure content, while at the same time sharing it in an open way using Enterprise 2.0 collaboration tools.

Social Business Leaders Speak Up: 9 Suggestions For Enterprise 2.0
By David Lavenda
June 17, 2011
Fast Company
Social continues to be one of the most talked about enterprise trends (for those whose heads aren't in the 'cloud'). So it's not surprising how much of this year's Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston (20-23 June) is dedicated to the social aspects of business. Below are 9 sessions that I find particularly interesting.

Social Networking Goes Mainstream At Enterprise 2.0 Conference
By David Carr
June 17, 2011
The BrainYard
More businesses are embracing social tools to build internal and external communities, improve communications, and delight customers.

Enterprise 2.0: Cerner Makes Healthcare Services Social
By Steve Wylie
June 16, 2011
The BrainYard
Brice Jewell, an Enterprise 2.0 presenter, explains how the healthcare services firm uses its uCern collaboration software to drive efficiencies and how its planned integration pathway promises even more.

Sea of cubicles - today's enterprise
By Oliver Marks
June 15, 2011
ZDNet
On the eve of the main Boston Enterprise 2.0 Conference, it's worth taking a look at the state of the enterprise.

Inside Nokia's Plan To Break Down Social Silos
By David Carr
June 15, 2011
The BrainYard
"Over the years, different organizations had different goals or different objectives, so they went off and created their own social silos," Ming Kwan, global digital marketing manager for Nokia, said in an interview. She and her colleague Craig Hepburn will be among the keynote speakers at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston, which begins on June 20.

Enterprise 2.0 Conference Coming to Boston: Building a Social Business
By Barb Mosher
June 7, 2011
CMS wire
We are only a few weeks ago from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston (June 20-23). If you are working hard to make your business more social, this is a must attend event for you.

Acquia, Podio and Others Make Enterprise 2.0 Launchpad Finals. Who Should Win?
By Klint Finley
June 2, 2011
ReadWriteWeb
It's almost time for another Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, which means it's time for another Enterprise 2.0 Launchpad contest.

The Flawed Premise of "Facebook for the Enterprise"
By Lawrence Coburn
May 23, 2011
The Next Web
A stroll around the Enterprise 2.0 Conference will introduce you to any number of earnest, young companies (and some pivoting, old ones) pitching company-wide news feeds for the desktop.

Put Down Your Pom-Poms And Embrace ROI
By Paige Finkelman
May 4, 2011
The BrainYard
At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston, the Analytics & Metrics track will take a deep dive into all of the social business measurement methods out there.