Introduction

This blog will be used for an assessment for INB346 at Queensland University of Technology. The weekly posts will be on the topic of Enterprise 2.0. To introduce the topic I quote a blog post from a fellow blogger Andrew McAfee,

'Enterprise 2.0 is the use of emergent social software platforms within companies, or between companies and their partners or customers.' Andrew McAfee

Andrew McAfee 2012

The post in which he defines Enterprise 2.0 is ancient in terms of online technologies, the term being first coined by McAfee in 2006. So old in fact that link to the original proposal of the idea that is linked on his blog now redirects to a 404 error.

Enterprise 2.0 has been implemented through business through such means as internal and external corporate blogging, corporate wikis, internal corporate community platforms, internal idea generation (ideation) and expertise location. These common capabilities have been implemented within business models to attempt to improve unplanned collaboration amongst employees and to promote employee connections.

An important sub topic of Enterprise 2.0 is Enterprise social software, which is software that implements some of the common capabilities mentioned above in a focused software package. Mc Afee claimed that Enterprise social software must have the following features:

• Search: allowing users to search for other users or content

• Links: grouping similar users or content together

• Authoring: including blogs and wikis

• Tags: allowing users to tag content

• Extensions: recommendations of users; or content based on profile

• Signals: allowing people to subscribe to users or content with RSS feeds

Ref: McAfee, Andrew, P. "Enterprise 2.0: The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration" (MIT Sloan Management Review), Spring 2006, Vol.47, No.3

These topics will be expanded on hopefully in the following blog posts.