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And they demonstrate a dramatically improved productivity, what we are saying for years now!

Excellent article from McKinsey about how web 2.0 tools can improve productivity and efficiency in the company. They are also very well explaining difference between participation and collaboration, which we are ourselves explaining it for many years. It's good to see this difference recognized. The different categories are very well explained also. But one of the key point of this article in the introduction of workflow tecnologies in this area. McKinsey is saying that workflow + participatory technologies is a key enhancer for the company. We agree of course with this, first because companies need both world, and second because providing automation and participation capabilities to the information system is the best way to improve it drastically.

Not only Amazon and Google are providing cloud computing infrastructures. GoGrid dans Rackspace also. Here is the interview of the CEO and the VP Technology of GoGrid.

a case study of enterprise 2.0 implementation (1500 users)

Very interesting analysis about how FaceBook could be bigger than Google in a few years.

Deep analysis of what SharePoint Portal Server is able to do or to not do as an Enterprise 2.0 environment. By Dion Hinchcliffe.

About what the business models of internet companies should be. I agree with this, new technologies and organizations should be applied to startups themselves, reducing drastically employees, charges and costs. Then the margin and the leverage with revenues will increase. They are the best business models, and every startup manager should be aware of it. Essential. of course, this must be projected to traditional companies also, this is what we can do using enterprise 2.0 technologies and organisations.

Google's chief economist says executives in wired organizations need a sharper understanding of how technology empowers innovation.

How web 2.0 usages can facilitate business in this downturn period. I agree, this is very important, because using web 2.0 technologies, it is possible at the same time to decrease financial investments (essential currently), and increase individual and collective productivity and efficiency. I don't know why top managers are not understanding this in our countries. I know that this is not easy to change people behavior, but this is because most of the companies are very late in this change. If they had started the evolution few years ago...

A very good demonstration that SharePoint Portal Server is not an Enterprise 2.0 solution, and that you must avoir using it if you want your users build new real social practices for productivity, reactivity, innovation and competitiveness.

Youth researcher Max Valiquette says those under 25 don't know a world where communication and global information isn't instant and ubiquitous.

These companies, say the authors, are showing that the use of blogs, wikis, widgets and other Web 2.0 tools "encourages horizontal collaboration and harnesses the power of collective intelligence to boost productivity, foster innovation and create enhanced value".

The famous Dion Hinchcliffe's predictions about Enterprise 2.0 for the year. Here are the 8 predictions for 2009 :) But what about 2008 predictions? Dion's first paragraphs are about them...

Very interesting study from Deloitte & Touch about how communities will transform business.

Very interesting article from Dion Hinchcliffe about new 2.0 customer communities. To read

Financial Times analyses twitter phenomenon. Very interesting to read. 'If Twitter succeeds in attracting a mass audience, there will be "all sorts of revenue opportunities", claims Mr Chaffee. But for now, with plenty of cash in the bank, it can afford to build its audience for "years" before worrying about how to make money, he says. This "build it and they will come" approach has produced many of the biggest names on the internet. It was the strategy behind household names such as YouTube and Skype as well as Google itself. Twitter still has a long way to go to join that club but, among the many consumer internet services that are struggling for attention, it has a better chance than most."