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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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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