Oliver Marks was kind of enough to come by the TechWeb office and do a brief interview with me about the Launch Pad program for Collaboration 2.0 on ZDNet. I’ve re-posted his post below, and you can find the full story on ZDNet here.
If you’re an Enterprise 2.0 entrepreneur, you’ve got until August 30 to Twitter pitch #e2conf-lp Paige Finkelman of the US Enterprise 2.0 Conference your ‘Launch Pad’ contest entry for consideration by the jury (which includes me), and broader audience votes.
The contest, to be held at the West Coast US edition of the show in November, is open to all Enterprise 2.0 vendors of any size that have launched or announced something new in 2010.
Paige spells things out above and you can find more details on the E2.0 blog, with rules and key dates listed on the official Launch Pad site.
Innovation is the lifeblood of any space, and you may find yourself on stage with Paige in November if your Enterprise 2.0 offering makes it to the finals, providing you with valuable exposure.
The concept of a Twitter pitch is a powerful one: simply send a tweet containing the hash tag #e2conf-lp and your contest entry from your Twitter account to get into the running.
Here’s a video archive of past finalists…I’m looking forward to seeing the new crop of entries and ideas…
All that stands between you and presenting on the Enterprise 2.0 Santa Clara keynote stage is one Tweet. A mere 140 characters.
One week remains for enterprise 2.0 / collaboration vendors to Twitter pitch #e2conf-lp and tell the E2.0 team and Launch PadJury what you’re up to in 2010. The Launch Pad contest is open to all enterprise 2.0 companies - big or small - that have released or announced something new in 2010. A new product, a new version, a new partnership or integration point - so long as the announcement was made this year, it counts.
You can find more info on the E2.0 blog, and rules and key dates are listed on the official Launch Pad site.
Craft those 140 characters carefully and let her rip! Twitter Round 1 closes on Monday, August 30th. Looking forward to your submission, and best of luck with the contest!
I’m attending this week’s annual SAP customer/partner conference: SAPPHIRENOW (Twitter hash-tag of the same name to follow numerous tweets). It’s the first time I’ve been here, mainly because things like ERP and BI have seemed like foreign languages to me given my background in real-time communication and collaboration, but what I’ve seen so far has been eye-opening, and exciting: the continued integration of social computing into business process management systems.
What happens when an investor “friends” his broker or agent and they use Facebook chat or e-mail to discuss account activities? This sort of scenario sends shivers through the spine of those responsible for compliance in the financial services sector. We’ve seen a huge market develop around compliance enforcement for e-mail and IM, now those same concerns are extending into the social space.
FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, issued new guidelines this week designed to help financial firms balance the need to enter the social world with the need to meet electronic records retention rules. The problem for enforcement managers so far has been the lack of tools. While companies such as Facetime Communications have introduced social site enforcement gateways, it remains difficult to cover all the bases as social sites rapidly grow. Ultimately the heart of any successful compliance strategy is user training and a solid acceptable use policy for those accessing social sites. Financial firms would be wise to carefully read FINRA’s recommendations and proactively take measure to limit their risk.
In case you missed it, Cisco took the wraps off its social/collaboration strategy yesterday at its Collaboration Summit (#ciscocollab) summit in San Francisco. Cisco fired a salvo deep into the territory of Microsoft and IBM Lotus (and to a lesser extent, Google) with its own suite of products covering messaging and social computing. Cisco also introduced numerous video and real-time collaboration products designed to broaden access to its telepresence suite, mate video with WebEx web conferencing, and easily enable inter-company collaboration.
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