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{ 2008 01 10 }

The To-and-Fro over 2.0: It's Rematch Time!

Well, Andy’s been sizing up his opponent for tomorrow’s rematch. I’ll do my best to keep it a clean match. That’s 11am Eastern Standard Time.

Tom Davenport and I debated Enterprise 2.0 last June as part of the 2007 Enterprise 2.0 conference. And we’re going to do it again this Friday at 11 am in a Webinar sponsored by the enterprise search company FAST (FAST maintains a great collection of E2.0 blogs, and I’ll be speaking at the company’s conference in Orlando in February). The debate will be moderated by Jim McGee, who’s been thinking about the topics under discussion for a long time.

In debates and his other writing on the subject Tom’s been making three broad points: that Enterprise 2.0 is really not anything new, that it’s not going to be successfully taken up by most companies, and that even when it is in place it’s not going to make much of a difference in things that pragmatic business leaders care about. To which I reply… well, tune in and see for yourself.

The webinar is free to attend, but advance registration is required.

I’ve been obsessively watching the video of our previous encounter, and have noticed that Tom drops his left when he’s getting ready to throw a hook, and that he doesn’t move as well to his left. Come watch as I exploit these weaknesses.

The To-and-Fro over 2.0: It’s Rematch Time!
Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:30:00 GMT

Posted by Jim on Thursday, January 10, 2008, at 8:59 pm. Filed under Resources. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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  1. Colleen Carmean | January 21, 2008 at 4:34 pm | Permalink

    Hi Jim:
    I think Tom’s wrong, but that his case has merite because we don’t yet know the effective practices or tools that will create E2.0

    I’m looking into this via a dissertation research project, and I’ve been hunting for your email address to ask you to participate. I did a social network analysis on terms relevant to new, shared, organizational knowledge and yours is one of the 24 most trusted Blogs on the topic.

    Thus, I’m hoping you’ll answer a survey on what you know.
    Here’s link to look at on the SNA and what’s being asked of participants:
    http://cmcarmean.googlepages.com/tappingknowledgeintheblogosphere

    Could you email me and let me know if you’d be willing to participate?
    (I didn’t intend to make such a public request, but you’re hard to contact. And I didn’t want to pay 19.95 / month to write you via LinkedIn ;)
    Colleen