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Opening up our blogging efforts to more than our view!

As Bjoern mentioned in his post last week one important idea while rethinking and relaunching our blogging efforts was to open up again our blogging approach to the E20 community. Already the old “Enterprise2Open” blog was an open platform for a variety of contributions at the beginning. As time went by (and maybe also as [...]

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Luis Suarez on #e20s: “Knowledge shared is power”

Luis Suarez (IBM) has been working in the areas of Knowledge Management, Collaboration, Online Communities and Social Computing for over a decade now. Here are some of his thoughts on that topic and his appearance at the Enterprise 2. SUMMIT. 1.) You take part in the panel on different adoption archetypes for Enterprise 2.0 initiatives. [...]

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Open Space Workshop at the E 2.0 SUMMIT: The six session proposed and selected

Last week we started a call-for-participation for this year’s Open Space Workshop sessions at the Entprise 2.0 SUMMIT. While some of the workshop topics will still be defined at the conference directly – resulting from the ideas and questions gathered during the “Market of Ideas” – six topics have already been proposed and selected in [...]

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Lee Bryant on Social CRM as conversations and treating customers as individuals

Lee Bryant, co-founder & director of Headshift, will be talking about an holistic approach to the collaborative enterprise in his keynote at the Enterprise 2. SUMMIT. This is what he told us in advance about his views on the social business design. 1.) Please give us three tags that describe what to expect from your [...]

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Bertrand’s “hot topics” for the Enterprise 2.0 SUMMIT 2010

Bertrand Duperrin (@bduperrin), Consultant at NextModernity, is part of this year’s E 2.0 SUMMIT Advisory Board. In addition, he will be the speaker of the Expert Session “Overcoming Cultural Boundaries” on October 26. Besides his expectations for the conference, he has also told us about his four “hot”conference topics: Cultural / local issues: “The European [...]

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Blazing the trail for E 2.0

The English version of the printed program brochure for our Enterprise 2.0 SUMMIT is currently being produced, and we finally had Ronna Porter, a native speaker, check it for mistakes. Obviously, our nice and well-invented conference theme “Setting the path towards an open and agile enterprise” is not 100% idiomatic. If only we had realized [...]

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Culture starts with the difference between the sales and IT guy

As the Enterprise 2.0 SUMMIT is a European conference, we certainly need to discuss the multi-cultural challenges of introducing E 2.0 in international companies. Last year, Craig Hepburn from the UK hosted the panel consisting of E 2.0 experts from all over Europe: Bertrand Duperrin/France, Mark Masterson/Germany, Emanuele Quintarelli/Italy and Dr. Frank Schoenefeld/Germany. Here is [...]

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Females first: Introducing our Advisory Board Ladies for this year’s Enterprise 2.0 SUMMIT

Just like last year, we have set up an Advisory Board for the Enterprise 2.0 SUMMIT 2010. The members of this board reassure the quality of talks and discussions at the conference and support us with their knowledge and experience in setting up the event. Now that the SUMMIT is getting closer and the program [...]

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Keep talking, I’m still not listening – or why Social CRM becomes relevant today

At the International Forum on Enterprise 2.0 in Milan, Mark Tamis from Net-7 and Esteban Kolsky from ThinkJar talked about “A new era of customer engagement with Social CRM”. Their point of view on this complex matter is the following: Why is the social customer becoming an important subject these days? Simply because people trust [...]

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International Forum on Enterprise 2.0 in Milan: Top-down versus bottom-up

On June 9 and 10, the International Forum on Enterprise 2.0 was held in Milan. Organized by Emanuele Quintarelli (aka @absolutesubzero), the event covered the latest development, trends and innovations in the Enterprise 2.0 field. Interestingly, the conference did not only look into the classical topics regarding E 2.0 inside the company, but also had [...]

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