Here is an interesting collection of ideas for taking some of the concepts and tools from blogs, wikis, tagging et al. into the enterprise that Peter Gloor brought to my attention. . It is produced by Rod Boothby, a manager at Ernst & Young. He writes in Top 15 Requirements for Web Office - (ie Applied Web 2.0) about some of the key things needed to take Web 2.0 ideas inside the enterprise.
A few highlights:
His first point is to define specific types of blogs; (e.g., Bio Blogs, Client Blogs, Project Blogs, Product Blogs, and Expert Page Blogs) and then develop templates, capabilities and plug ins to make it easy for employees to get started with the right stuff. He then says to allow for auto generation of each type of blog.
Next he suggests that the blogs should allow for automatic updating from other applications (e.g., changes in roles, reporting status). Then he adds that we should provide a single interface for adding material and using all office applications such as email, blogs, and wikis. Good idea but does the functionality differences allow for this? I would not want to sink into the lowest common denominator.
He also throws in integration of other new capabilities such as tags, voice over IP, RSS (internal and external), social networking, and access control. The whole thing is a bit rough but Rod is looking at many of the right issues. This is another of a series of thinking about how to push knowledge management and communication into the next generation of the web such the work I saw at the session on IBM’s Social Software Initiatives: Blogs, Wikis, Tagging, and More and the Berkman Center’s H20 program.
His blog, Innovation Creators, is relatively new and already appears to have a lot of interesting stuff. 
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