Entries by Ross Dawson

Media coverage of Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum

We’ve already had a fair bit of media coverage for Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum. Some of the media coverage includes: Janssen-Cilag dances Enterprise 2.0 jig (Computerworld) “Pharmaceutical giant Janssen-Cilag has overhauled its enterprise applications to introduce collaboration with a wiki that integrates IT asset management and even micro-blogging.” Wikis may be working for Westpac (The […]

Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum at full capacity

After a flurry of last-minute registrations, the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum, which is on tomorrow, is now chocka-block, with no more space available in the room. This keeps us at a 100% record for our events selling out (i.e. our Future of Media Summits and Web 2.0 in Australia ). Given that other events on […]

Do social network technologies make us better or worse off as a society?

The Freakonomics blog, which is now part of the New York Times online, asks the following question of six prominent academics and participants in the space: Has social networking technology (blog-friendly phones, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) made us better or worse off as a society, either from an economic, psychological, or sociological perspective? The responses to […]

Enterprise 2.0 will bring radical change in organisations

A very good article in Voice and Data magazine titled Enterprise 2.0 will bring radical change in organisations covers some of the truly important issues on the topic, going beyond narrow views of the technologies to how these new approaches will change organisations. It quotes Steve Hodgkinson of Ovum extensively, including some of these nuggets: […]

NineMSN: Social networking sites help boost business: expert

On Tuesday we ran a media briefing ahead of the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum on 19 February. Someone just pointed out to me that NineMSN wrote up the story under the title Social networking sites help boost business: expert. Since basically the whole article is direct quotes from me, I think it’s OK to put […]

Video interview with Peter Evans-Greenwood, Chief Technology Officer, Capgemini Australia on Enterprise 2.0

It’s great to have Capgemini involved as Gold Sponsor in our Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum, and Peter Evans-Greenwood, Chief Technology Officer of Capgemini Australia, speaking at the event on ‘Expanding Enterprise 2.0 beyond the early adopters’. Peter has been working with many of Capgemini’s large clients in implementing Web 2.0 technologies and approaches. In this […]