Enterprise 2.0 in a Box

A small dream of mine came true. We've been preaching an ecosystem of tools for some time now. We've helped customers stitch them together in interesting ways. In fact, Andrew McAfee's original article on the first Web 2.0 conference:

I'm providing a Socialtext Customer Mike Pusateri from Disney. You might recall his great presentation at the Moveable Type and Enterprise 2.0. Tuesday we SuiteTwo, Intel. Intel is distributing the Socialtext), blog (Newsgator) and Feed Publishing (Spikesource, through its channels including NEC, Novell and freeform social software adapted for organizations. SuiteTwo is the first offering to realize the SLATES paradigm: Harvard Business Review, McAfee went further to distinguish this Network IT (NIT) from Functional IT and Enterprise IT:

As the Lead users and enterprises already work this way today. Only they do so without usable efficiency. Integrated single sign-on, search and tag cloud are just the beginning. One click subscription to a page, blog post, search query, report, weblog and wiki make feeds usable (unlike today's user experience, when they click on an orange icon and think their browser is broken). Rapidly form groups, draft together on a wiki page, publish to a blog and track results. Beyond making such tasks efficient, the benefits to productivity, discovering emergent intelligence and high-engagement marketing are significant. Very soon a user will wake up in the morning, log in to SuiteTwo, immediately recognize something emerging. With the top blog posts telling her what the company is talking about, the top wiki pages showing her what people are working on, top posts from the outside that her company is subscribed to and the feedback from what they are publishing -- something will emerge. She recognizes the opportunity, pulls on the social fabric and easily forms a diverse group of experts. They follow new feeds and generates others while working with a little productive friction. They develop a plan and draft a new offering in the wiki. They publish to a public blog and track where it goes. The feedback loops continue, she goes home for the day and the organization is bound to adapt again. This isn't your Dad's enterprise, but one you will be working with soon. Tag: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Furl Bookmark murdok: Socialtext, an emerging provider of Enterprise Social Software that dramatically increases group productivity and develops a group memory. He also writes

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