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Hiya all! A quick blog post to let everyone know that we’re putting more fuel into our Twitter account - @e2conf

Please follow us if you’d like to get 140-characters of info about the enterprise 2.0 industry. And we want to hear from you. Please DM us with any inquiries or @ us any links to information, articles, blog posts, or other tidbits of interest you want us to share with the enterprise 2.0 community. We’ll retweet whatever we catch (as long as it’s relevant).

You can also find us on Facebook - our wall is a great place for you to post information about your company, self, interests, jobs (needed or wanted).

The same goes for MyE2 - the conference social network we launched last week. (But you’ve got to be registered for the Enterprise 2.0 Conference to have access.)

You can also always leave a comment here on this blog - we’re keeping tabs on it all.

Have a great week folks!

~ Janetti aka @janerri

Your Enterprise 2.0 Conference Community Manager

Are you registered for the Enterprise 2.0 Conference coming up this June in Boston? If so, join the Enterprise 2.0 community site and network, network, network.

With your registration to this year’s Enterprise 2.0 Conference you also have access to MyE2, the conference community site and social network where attendees can meet and connect.

The MyE2 site was designed specifically for the Enterprise 2.0 Conference so comes with custom features that will improve your experience before, during and after the event:

Your Profile
Once you log in be sure to upload an avatar picture and fill out your profile fields. This will help other attendees search for you and find out who you are. Show your personal tags and history or simply share your LinkedIn, Facebook and blog URLs. To get your photos and Tweets added to your profile page, please update your Twitter ID and photo sharing RSS in the settings tab. View your public profile via the “My Page” tab, the direct link is http://my.e2conf.com/account/settings/profile/

Official Conference Tag (#e2conf)
Tag your Tweets or Flickr photos with e2conf and they’ll be pulled into our public event streams for everyone to see. Tagged tweets will also get pulled into the MyE2 homepage in real-time for community activity updates.

Member Search & Messaging

To message someone, you must first add them as a friend. Locate their profile in “Member Search”, and click on “Add to friends” on their profile page. Once they accept your invitation you can send them private messages.

To compose a new message, start in the ‘Account’ tab. Once there you can also set your email alerts for when people send you messages. If you choose to get email alerts, please be sure to whitelist webmaster@e2conf.com to avoid spam filtering.

Forums
Use the forums feature to start discussions around your topics of interest. The Enterprise 2.0 team has already set up a few initial forums to help you get started, including details about hotel and travel discounts. Check it out at my.e2conf.com/forum and add your topic to the mix.

The Backchannel
The Backchannel is a way for you to talk to other attendees while in a conference session. It allows attendees to surface their thoughts, communicate reactions, add context or expand upon something the speaker said, and so on.

For participating in and tracking conversations feel free to use the Meebo chat room or Twitter, both updated in real time on the backchannel page. By using the official #e2conf Twitter tag, along with the session-specific tags provided on-site, attendees can stay in the know about what’s happening throughout the conference.

Schedule Builder
Get the most out of all the sessions and activities taking place at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference by pre-planning your event schedule. Search through the program and click the orange plus sign for details and then ‘Add this session to your schedule.’ Having a personalized schedule before you get on-site will help you stay focused on the content that’s most appealing to you, while giving you more time to network and meet fellow attendees in person.

ACTIVATING YOUR ACCOUNT
If you did not activate your MyE2 account alongside registration, you will find a link on the MyE2 homepage (my.e2conf.com) . Please use your Enterprise 2.0 Conference registration login details for MyE2. If you forgot your password, please go to http://my.e2conf.com/forgotpass for assistance or see our activation page for more details.

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If you have questions or feedback about the MyE2 site, please let our webmaster know via adunne@techweb.com. It’s a work in progress, and we’ll be working on it through the show. MyE2 was built for your use so we welcome you to tell us how to make it better.

* Note: hyperlinks included in this post require you to have a MyE2 or Enterprise 2.0 Conference registration login.

It’s Wednesday night, the big two days of the Enterprise 2.0 conference are coming to an end. I’ve blogged a ton and shot a lot of video at the conference. The overall sentiment I’m getting from all the attendees and from all the sessions I’ve attended is that enterprise 2.0 is not there yet, but it’s going to happen, it’s inevitable. Here’s a summary of the top learnings from the conference:

• Young people entering the workforce communicate with Web 2.0 tools. They want more than just email.
• Cloud computing is an easy way to launch a service and scale, but it’s far from being a true utility like electricity.
• To innovate, you need to harness the wisdom of your network. First start with your staff and then move to partners and your audience.
• When you create a collaborate Enterprise 2.0 space, TRUST your audience. Release the desire to control. Don’t control. Even the CIA recommends this.
• Change management. Adoption requires evangelism and constant reminders and associating Web 2.0 tools with everything you’re doing.
• Don’t just deploy social media for the sake of deploying social media. Develop a strategic business rationale.
• There are tons of companies that offer business social networking solutions. Some are trying to offer everything, and some are just trying to solve a single problem.
• Allow people to engage with your company outside of your .com business address. Let them engage with your brand where they already like to go, like Facebook, MySpace, etc.

And here’s a summary of all my coverage from the event. It’s a total of 23 posts of which seven include video. Enjoy. :)

• Introducing Social Networking into your Enterprise
• Social Network Shoot Out
• VIDEO: Karen Appleton on why social networking is critical for business
• VIDEO: Peter Biddle, encryption will be like air bags
• Mashups: Best practices and best examples
• Successful enterprise-level wiki implementations
• Developing business rationales for an enterprise 2.0 strategy
• Drive business growth from the bottom up community development
• Creating a socialization plan for deploying social media in the Enterprise
• VIDEO: If the CIA can collaborate with Web 2.0 tools, so can you
• Making sense of the endless options for enterprise social networking
• Stowe Boyds post everything economy
• What blogging brings to business
• Innovation will be driven by the adoption of cloud computing
• Age doesnt matter and other realizations for enterprise 2.0 culture
• FedEx makes its services accessible outside of FedEx.com
• From the bottom up: Building the 21st Century Intelligence Community
• VIDEO: Selipsky on the flexibility of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• VIDEO: Richard Soley of OMG is waiting for more cloud computing standards
• VIDEO: Schmoozing on the eve of Enterprise 2.0
• Move all your IT to the cloud: Cloud computing providers try to convince CXOs to take the plunge
• VIDEO: Enterprise 2.0 inspired CoreMedia to reignite communications and write a book

Thanks to Alex Dunne for supplying all the photos for many of the posts. Make sure you check out his entire Flickr feed.