Ding ding. Round 2 is upon us…

The Jury has chosen their 8 favorite submissions, our entrants churned out videos with lightning speed and now it’s time for the Enterprise 2.0 community to vote for their favorite.

The four companies with the most votes will be crowned the Final Four and move on to the final round to present live on the keynote stage at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference on June 16th in Boston, MA.

Make it count - one email per vote - cast it here.

Enterprise 2.0 San Francisco 2009 is a wrap! This week has been phenomenal, with tons of press coverage, photos and buzz. Amongst all the great keynotes & general sessions at the conference, I wanted to take a moment to reflect and recognize the Launch Pad program and our Four Finalists.

After making it through two rigorous rounds of voting, CubeTree, The Garland Group, Twiki and XWiki made it to the Final Four and presented live on the keynote stage on Wednesday, November 4, 2009. Each of the presenters had 5 minutes to demo their product, and after each company had their turn, the audience participated in a live text-to-vote, courtesy of our friends at Mozes.

The results tabulated in real-time percentages, and with 42% of the vote, CubeTree was crowned the Enterprise 2.0 San Francisco Launch Pad winner. When CubeTree’s CEO & Co-Founder was asked to explain how he felt about winning Launch Pad in 140 characters or less, Carlin Wiegner succinctly replied that he was happy. Nice one Carlin.

I wanted to personally thank Steve Wylie, the Enterprise 2.0 Conference GM, for letting me serve as chairperson for the compeition. Big thanks to Carlin, Brad, Jitendra, Milind and Ludovic for doing such a great job and helping to make this program a huge success! Cheers guys.

If you haven’t done so already, be sure to take a moment and peruse our 8 Launch Pad quarter-finalist videos and cast your vote before tomorrow evening.

Our 8 quarter-finalist were chosen to by the E2 team as the best, brightest and most innovative tools from the general pool of submissions. We’re now looking to the E2 community to check out their 3 minute videos and select your favorite. Please note that you can only vote one time for the vid you would like to see move to the next round.

The 4 finalists with the most votes will be announced on October 16 and provided the chance to a give a 5 minute demonstration of their application live on the keynote stage at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco on November 4.

Are you one of the 8 quarter-finalists? Help get the word out to your network to start voting using #e2conf-lp and #e2conf.

Rock the vote!

If you’ve been working hard on that 140 character pitch, a friendly reminder that we need your Launch Pad submission tomorrow to be considered for the chance to present on the main stage at Enterprise 2.0 in San Francisco on November 4, 2009.

We’ll announce the 9 quarter-finalists on September 28 . Those lucky 9 will then move on to Round 2 video submissions.

Interested in entering? First let us know who you are, and then Twitter pitch to #e2conflp. For more information check out the official Launch Pad site.

Best of luck!

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Last week’s Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston is in the books, and while I’d like to give the usual kudos to Steve Wylie and team for a well organized, and well executed event, I thought it also appropriate the share some thoughts as I look back.

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At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference this week in Boston, I had the pleasure of seeing a lot of interesting new companies and products. Video camera in tow, I captured elevator pitches with half a dozen of them: Newsgator, Tomoye, Yakabod, Joyent, nGenera, Box.net and qTask. Here is the E2 elevator pitch extravaganza.

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Dear Sweet Sixteen finalists of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference Launch Pad program, first - another congratulations for beating out all the Round 1 competition!

I’ve gotten some inquiries about how to submit your video for round 2 so am sharing your next step details on this blog for clarification. It’s actually pretty simple:

Please visit the Launch Pad site, create a (new) account and upload your videos.

There is a ‘Video Submissions‘ tab that outlines the rest of the process so please take a careful read through.

Please note that the video formats supported by the site are: MPEG, MPEG-4, M4v, MPG, FLV, Real Audio/Video, WMV, ASF, AVI, BFI[7], IFF[8], RL2[9] and .mov (for the Mac lovers out there).

Reminder: All submissions should be posted by Sunday, May 24th (midnight PST) - and community voting will commence through Thursday, 28th.

On Monday morning we will announce the URL where all the videos are being hosted and YOU CAN VOTE (with no log-in needed).

Thanks for playing! We look forward to seeing what you come up with and wish you the best of luck.

~ Janetti, Stowe & the Enteprise 2.0 Conference team.

PS - since it’s a holiday weekend, if you have a technical emergency, please call 415.947 and send a text message to the mobile # mentioned.

Over the past few weeks, Oliver Marks and I have been working on the first stages of a new research project, called Open Enterprise 2009. We will be working for the first half of 2009 to research the state of Web 2.0 tools, architecture and techniques in the enterprise, their adoption, application and impact.

We are now working closely on the study with the team here at Enterprise 2.0, and we will be posting our interviews, research insights, and findings here over the next months. To see the archive of the work we have done to date, check the Open Enterprise 2009 archive to see interviews with a list of luminaries, including Euan Semple, Ross Mayfield, Jeff Walker, and JP Rangaswami.

If you want to track the study, the RSS feed is here.

The study will be based on an open research model, involving this community in the discussion of the study’s major questions, the companies to be profiled, technologies to be investigated, visionaries to be contacted. We will be combing through those contributions, and studying them for ideas and themes.

Along with an on-going stream of research notes, interviews, and preliminary findings, Oliver and I are planning to distill what we have learned in the form of a comprehensive report which will will make available in late summer 2009.

We will be distributing an executive summary of the report — as well as a final presentation (and perhaps an executive seminar) at the Enterprise 2.0 conference 22-25 June 2009 in Boston.

We have also agreed to an interim report at the end of March at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.