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Enterprise 2.0 in the UK

Published by Niall Cook July 3rd, 2007 in Collective intelligence, Enterprise bookmarking, Knowledge management, Technology

I’m fed up of hearing how the US is so far ahead of the UK when it comes to Enterprise 2.0. Sure, they may have more conferences but since when has that been an indicator of success?

Anyone looking for evidence that blue chip companies in the UK "get it" need go no further than Scott Gavin’s site and his latest, excellent, Slideshare presentation.

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  1. 1 Susan Scrupski Jul 3rd, 2007 at 2:20 pm

    Hi Niall. I agree with you. I think the jury is out on ANY enterprise 2.0 success, as evidenced by Andy McAfee’s “true confessions” when pressed at the Davenport/McAfee debate that there are no break-out case studies other than JP Rangaswami’s that he wrote about a year and a half ago! The UK has some incredibly smart folks in enterprise 2.0., and adoption there has been excellent for a few startups I’ve been involved with.

    I might add Canada (who knew?) is a strong contender as well. So yes, the US just has good PR.

    Also, when is the e2.0 London Conference– I would love to come!! ;-)

  2. 2 David Terrar Jul 3rd, 2007 at 3:22 pm

    Hi Susan,
    It’s really frustrating that the enterprise 2.0 stories are so limited. The other good one over here is forums, blogs, wikis and social networking being implmented inside the BBC by Euan Semple. But as you know we need more.

    Nial,
    Scott Gavin regularly comes and contrbutes to my London Wiki Wednesday events. The next one is tomorrow evening, 4 July at BearingPoint near St. Paul’s in London - we have around 40 attendees so far. If you can make the time it would be great to see you. Book yourself on to the event wiki:
    http://www.eu.socialtext.net/wikiwed/index.cgi?london_wikiwed_4_july_2007

    and there is more info on our Ning social network at:
    http://londonwikiwednesdays.com

  3. 3 Niall Cook Jul 3rd, 2007 at 5:45 pm

    I’m with you on Canada. When we were at Under The Radar in Mountain View back in March, the best companies were either Canadian or had Indian CTOs. Good PR goes a long way, I guess ;-)

  4. 4 Niall Cook Jul 4th, 2007 at 2:35 pm

    Thanks David,

    I’m not sure anyone will get to the event tonight, which is a shame. But we’ll keep an eye out for future events - we’d love to come along and talk about how some of our clients are using social bookmarking inside the firewall.

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