How well software providers address the needs of this growing marketplace is one of the open questions as a host of startups bring fresh new products that are full of the latest Web 2.0 ideas arrive on the scene, unhindered by legacy baggage. These new offerings are facing off against the “old guard” of established software vendors such as Microsoft and IBM that have enormous operational experience and an amalgam of offerings aimed at the Enterprise 2.0 audience. ^{link »}

As we often discuss, wisdom of crowds tells us that “all of us is smarter than one of us“, and so here’s some of the collective intelligence on Enterprise 2.0 that I gathered from both events combined with my own observations on the leading edge of what happening out there: ^{link »}

We are past the early adopter phase. ^{link »}

Many organizations still actively discourage social computing, particularly across the firewall. ^{link »}

Use of Enterprise 2.0 is leading to a new crop of internal experts. ^{link »}

The Enteprise 2.0 vendor space has filled out extensively. ^{link »}

Successful pilots sometimes lead to turf battles along with real engagement within organizations. ^{link »}

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