2010

2010 Media Coverage

E2.0 Launch Pad Winner Makes Meetings More Productive
By Chelsi Nakano
November 15, 2010
CMS Wire
The Launch Pad competition at this month's Enterprise 2.0 Conference saw a handful of exciting new innovations, but it was an online meeting management service called Meetzi that came out on top.

More on Collaboration
By Steve Boese
November 15, 2010
HR Technology
In fact, CIO's at large companies seem to already have started to come to this conclusion, witness the growth of the IT-dominated Enterprise 2.0 conferences and the recent observations from industry leader Andrew McAfee about E2.0 beginning to go mainstream.

Enterprise 2.0 Santa Clara Round-Up
By Klint Finley
November 12, 2010
Read Write Enterprise
We weren't able to attend Enterprise 2.0 Santa Clara this week, but we were able to learn a lot anyway.

e2.0 Conference Fall 2010 - Santa Clara
By Michael Fauscette
November 12, 2010
Enterprise Irregulars
I spent the last few days at the Fall Enterprise 2.0 conference in Santa Clara. The conference was well attended and there was good energy throughout.

HR and Collaboration
By Steve Boese
November 11, 2010
HR Technology
This week the big 'Enterprise 2.0 Conference' held its latest event in Santa Clara, and for the first time a dedicated track specifically targeted at the critical role and significant opportunity that HR leaders and practitioners have in helping to lead in the development of strategies and programs to drive more effective organizational collaboration.

IBM Lotus Connections 3.0 Includes Social Business Features
By Robert Mullins
November 11, 2010
Network Computing
Lotus Connections 3.0 was announced at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Santa Clara, Calif, a event hosted by UBM.

Enterprise Social Networking and Collaboration Tools Don't Scale Up Easy
By Hans Lewis
November 11, 2010
TMCnet
An interesting research was released at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference by independent analyst firm Real Story Group (formerly CMS Watch) about how Enterprise social networking and collaboration tools that perform adequately at a departmental level can demonstrate surprising shortcomings when implemented enterprise wide.

Top 10 Trends at E2.0 Santa Clara
By Bert Sandie
November 11, 2010
Enterprise 2.0 Community
Here are my top ten trends (i.e. best practices, lessons learned and observations) having spent the past three days at the Enterprise 2.0 event in Santa Clara.

Enterprise 2.0: The Social Needs Of Smaller Businesses
By Thomas Claburn
November 11, 2010
InformationWeek
InformationWeek.com editor-in-chief Alex Wolfe explored the SMB perspective on collaboration tools at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference on Wednesday with four panelists.

'We've seen this movie before'
By Robert Mullins
November 10, 2010
Network World
But the protagonists of social media in business at the Enterprise 2.0 conference held this week in Santa Clara, Calif., including those from Microsoft, declared that an inflection point has been reached and that the advantages of "social business," as one put it, to the enterprise far outweigh the risks, which can be managed.

Expert tips for community engagement
By David Spark
November 10, 2010
Spark Minute
At Enterprise 2.0, I listened to a panel of community managers offer some experiential advice on best practices for community engagement.

How social tools are improving human resources
By David Spark
November 10, 2010
Socialmedia.biz
Somebody's got to be doing it bet­ter, and luck­ily those peo­ple were on a panel dis­cus­sion "Human Resources Meets Enter­prise 2.0 and the Cloud" (#e2conf) at the Enter­prise 2.0 Con­fer­ence in Santa Clara, Calif.

Enterprise 2.0: Meetzi Wins Launch Pad Contest
By Thomas Claburn
November 10, 2010
InformationWeek
Meetzi, an online meeting management service, triumphed in the Launch Pad competition at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference on Wednesday.

Enterprise social data could help provide customized employee experiences
By Ron Miller
November 10, 2010
Fierce Content Management
At a session at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara, Calif. on Tuesday, hosted by Real Story Group's Tony Byrne, Walton Smith, who has helped build the internal social network at Booz Allen Hamilton discussed how this information can help employees.

From Enterprise 2.0 to Social Business
By Blake Landau
November 10, 2010
CMS Wire
Yesterday I attended the first full conference day of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference and I spent most of the day in the exhibit hall.

Enterprise 2.0 & HR: People, Culture and Behavior
By Jacob Morgan
November 10, 2010
CMS Wire
I'm at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco. Yesterday I attended a session on people, culture and behavior as a part of the HR track.

Enterprise 2.0: Rethinking Customer Relationship Management
By Thomas Claburn
November 10, 2010
InformationWeek
Speaking at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference on Wednesday, Greenberg did not mince words. The convergence of communication technology and social networking has changed the way that companies relate to customers and customers relate to companies, he insists.

Enterprise 2.0: Cisco Broadening Quad To Cloud
By Alex Wolfe
November 10, 2010
InformationWeek
Cisco doesn't have a big presence at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara, Calif., this week, but its Quad social-collaboration product is very much on the minds of everyone who's assessing where this nascent market is headed.

The Rising Challenge Of Social Business To HR Departments
By Rawn Shah
November 10, 2010
Forbes
Here at the Enterprise 2.0 conference, the sessions in Human Resources (HR) track on Monday shed some light on the issues around social business and technology use for HR needs.

Companies to Watch at Enterprise 2.0 Santa Clara
By n/a
November 9, 2010
SEO Facts
At each Enterprise 2.0 conference, participants select one of four new or upcoming applications as the Launchpad winner of the event. Baydin, a quirky e-mail-centric startup, won at the Enterprise 2.0 event in Boston last summer.

Enterprise 2.0: Social Media? Anyone Can Do It
By David Needle
November 9, 2010
eCRMguide.com
You might not think of the U.S. State Department as a leading edge user of technology, but Richard Boly, director of the department's Office of eDiplomacy, went a long way toward dispelling that notion here at the Enterprise 2.0 conference Tuesday.

Enterprise 2.0: A Surprise Social Media Convert
By David Needle
November 9, 2010
internetnews.com
There were plenty of advanced social media solutions on display at this week's Enterprise 2.0 conference. As well there should be, since social media and the so-called consumerization of IT is such a hot topic these days.

Enterprise 2.0: Novell Launches Vibe Platform
By Thomas Claburn
November 9, 2010
InformationWeek
At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference on Tuesday, Novell changed the name of its real-time collaboration software from Pulse to Vibe, integrated its Teaming application, and announced a public beta of the combined social platform.

Enterprise 2.0: Jive CEO Zingale Assays Business Collaboration
By Thomas Claburn
November 9, 2010
InformationWeek
"It's not about Facebook in the enterprise," declared Jive Software CEO Tony Zingale in a keynote presentation at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara, Calif., in Tuesday. "It's about getting work done."

Social CRM Meets Enterprise 2.0 in New Engagement Model
By Chelsi Nakano
November 9, 2010
CMS Wire
Moxie Software took this week's Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara as an opportunity to reveal their efforts, in conjunction with IDEO, to break down the walls between Enterprise 2.0 and Social CRM.

Is The Enterprise Really Transforming Into A Social Business?
By Rawn Shah
November 9, 2010
Forbes
As I indicated in prior posts, I am currently at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara, an event dedicated to all things around the collaborative enterprise.

Companies to Watch at Enterprise 2.0 Santa Clara: The Launchpad Four
By Klint Finley
November 8, 2010
Read Write Enterprise
At each Enterprise 2.0 conference, participants select one of four new or upcoming applications as the Launchpad winner of the event.

Enterprise 2.0: Socialtext Targets Information Barriers
By Thomas Claburn
November 8, 2010
InformationWeek
Enterprise social software company Socialtext on Monday introduced a new version of its business-oriented social networking software that strives to accelerate interaction and communication across corporate boundaries.

Socialtext 4.5 Searches Metadata & Connects Salesforce.com
By Chelsi Nakano
November 8, 2010
CMS Wire
Socialtext is bringing some heat to this week's Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara by debuting the newest version of their social Enterprise suite: Socialtext 4.5.

IBM Boosts Social Media Software, Services
By Alison Diana
November 8, 2010
InformationWeek
IBM Monday released IBM Lotus Connections 3.0, a social networking platform with advanced analytics capabilities, as well as new services that use the social collaboration tools to improve productivity and return on investment. IBM made the announcement at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, which runs through November 11 in Santa Clara, Calif.

IBM's Lotus Connections 3.0 Aims to Make Businesses More Social
By Simon Mackie
November 8, 2010
GigaOm
At the Enterprise 2.0 conference today, the company announced that the next major version of the app, Connections 3.0, will include new social analytics features to help users discover people with whom they might wish to connect and content that might be relevant to them.

Socialtext Integrates with Salesforce.com, Adds New Browsing and Filtering Tools
By Klint Finley
November 8, 2010
Read Write Enterprise
Socialtext will announce the new version of its enterprise social media suite, Socialtext 4.5, today at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Santa Clara.

A Packed Agenda On HR Collaborative Technologies And SocialCRM At Enterprise 2.0
By Rawn Shah
November 5, 2010
Forbes
Collaboration and social computing experts are gathering again for the second Enterprise 2.0 Conference of the year next week at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

US Enterprise 2.0 Conference West Coast Edition Next Week
By Oliver Marks
November 3, 2010
ZDNet
The US West Coast Enterprise 2.0 Conference commences November 8, and has quickly reached the same number of attendees as the summer east coast Boston event within only two years.

Paul Greenberg on How Social CRM and Enterprise 2.0 Come Together
By Blake Landau
November 2, 2010
CMS Wire
The Enterprise 2.0 conference is ramping up for Santa Clara next week and Social CRM is one of the core themes for the event.

ARMA and E20: A tale of two conferences
By Ron Miller
November 1, 2010
Fierce Content Management
Next week I'll be attending two west coast conferences: ARMA 2010 in San Francisco, then Enterprise 2.0 in Santa Clara.

Enterprise 2.0 Preview: Collaboration's Next 'Wave'
By Thomas Claburn
November 1, 2010
InformationWeek
At the upcoming Enterprise 2.0 Conference, which begins on November 8th in Santa Clara, Calif., a number of large organizations will report on their social collaboration initiatives, including Citibank, Wells Fargo, and the U.S. Department of State.

Enterprise 2.0 Conference Promotes Advances
By n/a
October 31, 2010
ECE Magazine
The upcoming Enterprise 2.0 Conference Santa Clara will present customer case studies that demonstrate tangible business results of Enterprise 2.0 adoption.

HR Management Challenges & Opportunities For Collaboration In Enterprise 2.0
By Rawn Shah
October 29, 2010
Forbes
This short teaser paper from consultant Oliver Marks of the Sovos Group frames a crucial conversation that will be part of the upcoming Enterprise 2.0 Conference to be held on Nov 8-11, in Santa Clara, CA.

Is Social CRM Compatible with Enterprise 2.0?
By Esteban Kolsky
October 28, 2010
Customer Think
As strange as it may sound, I have encountered no Enterprise 2.0 initiatives that have actually made direct contact with the customer.

Strong Customer Showing at Enterprise 2.0 Conference
By Sameer Patel
October 27, 2010
Pretzel Logic
Next month ushers in the west coast edition of the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Santa Clara. For the first time, the conference moves from general purpose strategy, technology and adoption discussion to a new format characterized by functional, technology and participation lines.

Enterprise 2.0
By n/a
October 26, 2010
XCONOMY
Enterprise 2.0 calls itself "The leading conference and expo for organizations using collaborative technologies to accelerate information flow and drive revenue."

eDiplomacy: The US State Department's Global Collaborative Backbone
By Oliver Marks
October 25, 2010
ZDNet
Richard Boly will be keynoting the November US Santa Clara Enterprise 2.0 Conference, where he will provide further insight into this global environment, which has many parallels to some of the needs of corporate collaboration.

Enterprise 2.0 Preview: Social Tools Tackle Business Problems
By Thomas Claburn
October 25, 2010
InformationWeek
Trite as it may sound to declare that social is the new black, social networking -- meaning software that enhances communication and collaboration through identity-oriented connections -- is in vogue. The reason is that it works, as organizations like Citibank, Wells Fargo, and the U.S. Department of State plan to attest at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, which begins on November 8th in Santa Clara, Calif.

Are Collaborative Technologies On Your HR Department's Agenda?
By Rawn Shah
October 22, 2010
Forbes
In fact, in the upcoming Enterprise 2.0 conference to be held in Santa Clara in November, HR collaboration strategies is one of the main tracks.

Enterprise 2.0 And The Different Flavours of Social CRM
By Mark Tamis
October 20, 2010
Customer Think
I will be participating in a customer and thought leader panel during Social CRM Track of the upcoming Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara (11/8-11) to discuss in detail how theory matches with real-life examples.

Social and Collaboration Software: Key Debates, Recent Evaluations
By Tony Byrne
October 20, 2010
Intelligent Enterprise
I hope you know about the forthcoming Enterprise 2.0 Conference, now in its second year on the U.S. west coast (Santa Clara, CA) next month.

Social CRM and Enterprise 2.0 Convergence
By n/a
October 20, 2010
eCRMguide.com
In fact, Paul Greenberg, author of the best selling book CRM at the Speed of Light, 4th edition, has been addressing this lately and will be sharing his thoughts on Enterprise 2.0 and Social CRM convergence during his keynote address at the upcoming Enterprise 2.0 Conference in November. Paul is the authority on CRM, often referred to as 'The Godfather of CRM' and his book is referred to as 'the bible of the CRM industry' so when Paul talks... people listen.

Enterprise 2.0 and Social CRM, Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together
By Steve Wylie
October 18, 2010
InformationWeek
Is Enterprise 2.0 the chocolate to Social CRM's peanut butter? In a recent InformationWeek post I commented on the maturing Enterprise 2.0 market and our path towards deeper integration of social and collaborative applications with pre-existing business work flows and applications.

Enterprise 2.0 Launch Pad - Get your Entry In!
By Oliver Marks
August 24, 2010
ZDNet
If you're an Enterprise 2.0 entrepreneur, you've got until August 30 to Twitter pitch #e2conf-lp Paige Finkelman of the US Enterprise 2.0 Conference your 'Launch Pad' contest entry for consideration by the jury (which includes me), and broader audience votes.