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Groundswell Social Technographics Ladder
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Social Network Spending to Increase
Social Networks continue to show a strong future of growth.

Social media and enterprise power relationships | IT Project Failures | ZDNet.com
Good analysis by Michael Krigsman about Enterprise 2.0 adoption. Naively migrating consumer social media to the enterprise is a recipe for poor results. But adding enterprise smarts to the strategy is likely to work much better, esp with in upper mgmt.

Web 2.0 University is coming to the UK!
Scott Gavin and Hinchcliffe & Company are bringing Web 2.0 University to London on September 30th, 2008. We'd love to host you in this premier executive event, please contact me for details dion@hinchcliffeandco.com

International Forum on Enterprise 2.0 - Home-EN
If you're in Europe, this Enterprise 2.0 conference is next month in Varese, Italy. It's free. @elsua, @vanderwal, and @slmader are all speaking.

Enterprise Social Tools: Components for Success :: Personal InfoCloud
Social tools require much more than just the tools for their implementation to be successful.

Did My Students Drink the Kool-Aid? | Andrew McAfee
Fascinating piece by Andrew McAfee (who coined "Enterprise 2.0") about asking his students about introducing 2.0 technologies at work. One distinct pattern that emerges is using this tools to bridge adjacencies and disparate groups with same...

Predictify, Inc. - Tap Into Collective Wisdom, Make Money by Predicting Future Events
Another collective intelligence powered prediction market. Reportedly has an excellent track record for accuracy. Will be taking a look at this since businesses are increasingly looking at these tools to make important decisions.

Why Twitter Matters | BusinessWeek
An excellent new article from BusinessWeek exploring why Twitter matters with compelling examples from H&R Block and Zappos. Our recent user survey also confirmed that there is lots of interest in using Twitter for business purposes.

IBM Research | Watson | Cambridge | Cattail: Person-Centric Sharing for IBMers
Description of the Cattail research project at IBM

Microsoft's Has the Best Web 2.0 Developer Platform
There's a survey report out that ranks the best Web 2.0 development platforms by the people who actually use them. The big surprise is that Microsoft tops the list of developer platforms with providers like Google, Amazon S3 and Yahoo trailing behind....

Endless Conversation: The Unfolding Saga of Blogs, Twitter, Friendfeed, and Social Sites [Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog]
I cover where conversations are going online including how Twitter and Friendfeed are coming along. I also present the results of our Twitter/Friendfeed survey, including some key metrics about how they're being used for business.

Wikinomics
How Mass Collaboration Changes everything. Exploring the cutting edge of mass collaboration

Enterprise Social Search. Personally essential; collectively critical.
A great idea, using social search and collective intelligence to provide "relevant search and nothing BUT relevant search." I will test this out and report out how well it works, potentially an excellent Enterprise 2.0 platform aid.

OpenKM Document Management System | Open Source DMS - Home
Just hitting version 2.0, this open source knowledge management platform is getting a lot of pickup recently. Uses Ajax extensively and uses Google Web Toolkit for the UI.