The Call for Papers for Enterprise 2.0 Conference Boston 2010 closes Friday, December 18. This is your last chance to submit a proposal for the opportunity to present in front of the largest gathering of business leaders and IT professionals employing Enterprise 2.0 technologies.

This year, we’ve partnered with Spigit, Inc. to provide the community with a new collaborative submission and voting experience. Your feedback will be a primary factor for selecting sessions for Boston 2010.

We’re looking for proposals for sessions in the following topics:

• Strategy, Planning and Execution
• Driving Adoption and Organizational Change
• Social Tools and Applications for the Enterprise
• Case Studies
• Technology Foundations of Enterprise 2.0
• Social Tools and Applications for the SMB
• Social Media, Marketing and Customer Engagement

Submissions can be tagged with one of the pre-populated technology areas or a unique topic of the submitter’s choice. All submissions will be immediately viewable on a discussion forum, allowing for full transparency. We encourage the entire Enterprise 2.0 community – submitters, attendees and enthusiasts – to review the full lineup of submissions and provide feedback.

After the Call for Papers closes, an official voting period will run on the Spigit site from January 6 through January 20. Be sure to participate in the public vote as submissions with the most votes will become conference sessions at the Boston conference. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Manuela Farrell, Conference Manager, at (415) 947-6250.

We look forward to hearing your success stories, case studies and lessons learned and the community conversation they generate!

Bill Pray blogged today on the Supreme Court’s decision to take on a case involving the privacy rights of an employee’s use of a government-provided mobile device for personal text messaging. This case further highlights the growing concerns around privacy and compliance as companies embrace emerging communications applications. In almost every conversation I’ve had with end-user organizations the topic of compliance is front and center as they evaluate tools such as SMS, Instant Messaging, Microblogging, and social computing platforms. Our recent SRO session at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston explored many of these issues as well. Bottom line is that its wise to involve your governance and compliance officers early on in as you develop your enterprise 2.0 strategy.

The idea of Enterprise 2.0 is now a couple of years old, well into the trough of disillusionment as far as hype cycle position goes, and broad outlines are starting to become clear. So it is not surprising that two books have appeared in the last year that treat the subject broadly, systematically, and without the Kool-Aid that characterized books like Wikinomics, which appeared much earlier in the hype cycle. The first is one by the most usual of suspects, Andrew McAfee, titled, like his original article that coined the term, Enterprise 2.0 (the subtitle though, has changed appropriately, from “The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration” to “New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization’s Toughest Challenges.”)  The second is “Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom” by Matt Fraser and Soumitra Dutta.  The two books are ideal foils to each other. They tackle the left and right brains of the Enterprise 2.0 idea respectively. To a certain extent, they are also evil twins to each other. Which one is better for you?

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