With a new year comes new beginnings, and as 2012 gets underway, I want to give an update on how Enterprise 2.0 is shaking things up this year.
Evolved Positioning
I’m excited about the direction this brand is headed. Enterprise 2.0 has been a key driver in pushing social forward, creating a forum for buyers and sellers to connect and explore the power of social and collaboration in business. Once considered a “rogue” market, social is now mainstream. As 2012 gets underway, social will not only dramatically change the way we do business, but can also inform the business due to an abundance of new data – data that can be mined to improve internal business processes and create operational efficiencies in customer and partner networks.
Mobile will play an even more important role in the enterprise this year, and reflecting on this trend, we announced Mobile Connect which will run alongside Enterprise 2.0 in Boston this year. Like social, mobile will fundamentally change the way we do business. Mobile and social are enabling new inputs, fueling vast amounts of data, and creating an opportunity for businesses to run more effectively than ever before. The tools that provide a deep, meaningful analysis of big data will be as integral to the success of these initiatives as the technologies themselves.
We are experiencing a renaissance in enterprise social software. Disruptive forces including social, mobile and better analytics are all influencing enterprise apps, reshaping them from a user’s perspective. Enterprise 2.0 events and online portfolio will continue to be at the forefront of the renaissance playing out. E2’s diligent reminder and question for 2012 attendees is:
The technology is here – is your enterprise ready?
E2 will be the place for enterprises to step back and rethink what the influences of mobile and social mean for their business, and to find out what’s next in enterprise apps. Enterprise 2.0 will continue to bring together key IT and business leaders tasked with making decisions about the future of their organization’s enterprise applications – expect E2 to continue to serve up relevant content and provide real context for attendees.
New 2012 Advisory Board
To help E2 evolve its new positioning, we’re bringing in the big guns to help us get there. Along with some of the usual suspects from previous years, we’ve added a few new folks to the Advisory Board. Say hello to our 2012 members:
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Enterprise 2.0 Santa Clara kicked off today with pre-conference workshops, where attendees filled up rooms to get their social business education on. As I walked through the convention center, I saw a lot of old friends, colleagues, as well as first time attendees who were in awe of all the great content Paige Finkelman put together for the event. As usual, the twitter feed was active with great pieces of information that attendees were getting from the workshops. (Reminder the official hashtag is #e2conf)
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‘Human Resources’ is an early 1960′s term but now seems pretty archaic in our ‘always on’ era of broadband and mobile networked connectivity. The needs of the people and collective cultures within enterprises continue to evolve rapidly, with increasing emphasis placed on interactions through the firewall with prospects, customers and partners being seen of value in some industries, although by no means all.
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Tags: adoption, Collaboration, communications, community, e2.0, e2conf, Enterprise 2.0 Conference, enterprise2.0, human resources, people & culture, Social Media
Working in the enterprise has changed dramatically over the past 5 years. The cubicle walls are being torn down as organizations are now leaning towards more open space environments. See picture. 
The enterprise is not only tearing down the physical walls, but the communication walls as well. In the past messages always came from the top and then filtered down to the rest of the organization.
Employees were “told” about how the latest strategic company initiative would make the company grow and their job easier from executives that often times failed to ask for feedback or ideas from their team. This is a clear example of one way communication – a very enterprise 1.0 way of getting work done.
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Tags: Collaboration, communications, community, conference, e2conf, enterprise 2.0, Santa Clara, social computing, Social Media, Twitter, Web 2.0
Let me repeat that question one more time. Are YOU ready for Enterprise 2.0 Santa Clara? If not, then you better start getting reading, because the leading social business event is just under 3 weeks away. Yeah! 3 weeks! Needless to say but things are picking up here in the SF office. There is an energy that has been growing exponentially the past few weeks. People have an extra pep in their moxie and some folks have been seen literally skipping to meetings as though there was a hopscotch course in front of them. Hey if Paige Finkelman wants to skip around the office, then more power to her. I’m not going to stop her.
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Tags: Collaboration, community, conference, e2.0, e2conf, enterprise 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 Conference, enterprise2conf, Social, Social Media, Twitter
Launch Pad is back!
Congratulations to the four companies with the most votes from the video round, qualifying them to present live at Enterprise 2.0 Santa Clara. Catch them on November 16, 2011, where they each have 3 minutes to demo their product on stage. After the Final Four present, our live audience will text their vote via Mozes to crown the People’s Choice Winner.
These guys did a great job creating and promoting their videos; congrats to the Santa Clara 2011 Final Four:
- CubeVibe: CubeVibe provides software that helps managers connect with their teams and improve engagement. CubeVibe delivers on-demand tools to help managers hold effective meetings, set individual and team goals, track progress with simple metrics, and share real-time feedback.
- Flowr: Flowr is a European start-up innovating in social business collaboration, passionate about design and web apps. With more required to encourage true collaborative work flow, Flowr helps embrace innovation in a dynamic business environment.
- Inmagic: Inmagic is a leader in developing and implementing Social Knowledge Networks for enterprise organizations. Inmagic helps business users break down information silos and create true knowledge-based communities to improve productivity and collaboration and support strategic transformation initiatives.
- Streamer: Streamer adds a Social Layer across systems and teams and breaks down silos of information spread across business. Streamer improves productivity and decision making and empowers people.
You can read the full press release here. Looking forward to seeing these companies demo live at E2 Santa Clara.
Tags: demo, e2conf, enterprise 2.0, launch pad, Santa Clara
Hey everyone. Jason Quesada here, Digital Media Marketing Manager for Enterprise 2.0. Did you know that we are just 4 weeks away from Enterprise 2.0 Santa Clara? All of the cool and latest social business technology tools will be displayed on the Enterprise 2.0 expo floor. It’s going to be buzzing I tell ya! Buzzing!
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Tags: Blogging, Collaboration, e2conf, Enterprise 2.0 Conference, enterprise2.0, Social, social computing, Social Media, Twitter
There are a wide variety of events and conferences of interest to community leaders these days – from those explicitly focused on community management to those focused on social media, communications, specific tools, functional processes, or on digital content – but there are very few events that speak to senior managers who own the social strategy for a large organization or a functional area and need to understand the business side of communities.
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Calling all enterprise 2.0 vendors: Launch Pad is returning to Santa Clara. Enter to win fame, glory, plus a couple of cool prizes.
All emerging and established enterprise 2.0 companies are encouraged to participate, specifically technology vendors that have a play in enterprise social software or collaboration platforms.
Submitting is easy. Simply Twitter pitch to #e2conflp and tell us about something new – a new feature, new integration point, new partnership – anything new within the calendar year of 2011 counts. You have 140 characters and until September 5, 2011 to send out that Tweet.
The seven best Twitter submissions will be selected on September 9 by the Jury and move on to the video round.
More information about the competition, who can enter, and a schedule of key dates can all be found on the Launch Pad site.
Good luck!
Tags: Collaboration, contest, e2conf, launch pad, Santa Clara, Social
Jan 5th, 2012 |
