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Organisations that ban social networking sites and other Web 2.0 technologies at work will not be able to attract future talent, delegates at the CIPD's HRD conference were told.

The Management 2.0 Hackathon, a joint collaborative effort by the MIX, Saba, and the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, was inspired by hacakathons in the world of software development. A management hackathon is a short, intense, coordinated effort to develop useful hacks-innovative ideas or solutions-that can be implemented by organizations to overcome barriers to progress and innovation.

Jeff Patmore, Head of strategic university research at BT Group talks to Professor Harry Scarbrough before his presentation to WBS Alumni on 19 January 2009. How have 'Web 2.0' tool been adopted in large organisations? What has been the impact on the bottom line and on the employees?

A recent MIT study found that in one organization the employees with the most extensive personal digital networks were 7% more productive than their colleagues - so Wikis and Web 2.0 tools may indeed improve productivity. In the same organization, however, the employees with the most cohesive face-to-face networks were 30% more productive.

Not sure what a Workspace is? Cisco employee Mark Spencer faces his technology fears and learns how to work more effectively in the Web 2.0 world.

Last year, we undertook a massive overhaul of the technology and approach we use for knowledge management, moving from a centrally managed, linear, taxonomy- and repository-based system to one that leverages the best of Web 2.0, including social software, user participation, and key market-driven concepts like sponsored links. We see this as a shift from "knowledge management" to "knowledge sharing."

Jenny Ambrozek is a KIN Associate

Has Web 2.0 lost it's sparkle? Finding multiple posts suggest an intriguing trend.

New McKinsey research shows that a payday could be arriving faster than expected. A new class of company is emerging-one that uses collaborative Web 2.0 technologies intensively to connect the internal efforts of employees and to extend the organization's reach to customers, partners, and suppliers. We call this new kind of company the networked enterprise. Results from our analysis of proprietary survey data show that the Web 2.0 use of these companies is significantly improving their reported performance.

Over the past two years, McKinsey has studied more than 50 early adopters to garner insights into successful efforts to use Web 2.0 as a way of unlocking participation.

"I don't quite recall how it happened anymore, but in September 2008, I wrote a post for the Enterprise 2.0 blog titled Social Media vs. Knowledge Management: A Generational War.  The post - probably the purest piece of deliberate flamebait I've ever written - went viral. Many of you found ribbonfarm via that post."

"Trampoline, who are presenting at The KIN 'Locate, Collect, Connect' quarterly workshop, have been attending the 'Enterprise 2.0' event in Boston. Here they blog about what's different, what makes a great party and what's hot (certainly not the toaster!)"

This blog was initiated following a KIN WEB 2.0 Roundtable event as a way of sharing items relating to that topic. Any KIN members that would like to participate in adding entries to this blog, email me and I will set you up as an author

The company as a wiki. US Company Best Buy embraces WEB 2.0 including prediction markets. Best Buy's CEO talking about prediction markets at zeitgeist '08 (starting at 9:50)

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Web2.0 not taken at all seriously

Nice one Gary!

The latest surveys continue to show the social computing provides real business benefits, but is it really as rosy as all that? Dion Hinchcliffe takes a closer look at what benefits are consistently reported with Enterprise 2.0 and Social Business while looking at where the actual value lies.

blueKiwi 2009 is an enterprise social software for people-centric organizations to create powerful and secure social networks and collaborative environments with partners, customers and colleagues. Integrating familiar features of Web 2.0 such as wikis, blogs, forums, RSS and tagging, blueKiwi introduces a new and innovative way of getting things done.

With the advent of Web 2.0, numerous social software applications allow people to publish and share information on the Internet. Two of these types of applications - collaborative workspaces and social network sites - have a number of features in common, which are explored to provide a basis for comparative analysis.

"Web 2.0" in just under 5 minutes.

Strong evidence indicates that imitation and innovation have been driving the spread of Enterprise 2.0 tools. Using modeing techniques,McKinsey found that 35 percent of the companies had adopted social technologies in response to their adoption by competitors.