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An overview of Larry Sanger’s talk at Outsell’s Go! conference has been around a few months, but I just ran across it on the Digital Universe site in the Blog link.  In this discussion, he cogently identifies what in the biz focused web 2.0 universe goes where…ie, what to do with blogs vs. forums, etc.  [...]

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Ever since Web 2.0 took hold following the dot.com bubble burst, followed by Enterprise 2.0 when it was coined by Harvard prof McAfee, seems like every industry is learning to fold the 2.0 promise into its thinking. While the 2.0 moniker might be tiresome, the trend is good. It means companies and sectors [...]

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Library Journal has an interesting review of social knowledge sharing tools in a recent article entitled 2.0 for Readers. The article focuses on the “RA,” or Reader’s Advisory services which include reader and library staff notes, reviews and overviews of books in the stacks, making the information librarian that much more prepared to help patrons [...]

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When wikis were first making headlines a while ago, I saw them as the golden promise: the answer to real knowledge transfer among far flung teams that most KM systems just couldn’t touch.  I still think wikis are amazing and offer that elusive collaborative networking possibility that’s missing in other applications.  In my mind, global [...]

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There’s a bit of talk right now about a new study from KPMG about Enterprise 2.0–the title pretty much tells it all: Fad or Future.  I agree with Wirearchy that most of the report seems amazingly shallow, and I’ll go one step further: dated.  They’re still pointing to Dresdner Kleinwort, German banking company, as the [...]

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The Annoyed Librarian (aka AL) is a wicked funny blog covering the amazing array of collegiate activities, special emphasis on library inanities. Her recent post, A Librarian’s Anti-2.0 Manifesto, is especially caustic…and entertaining.
Her complaint (rant?) centers around an article in American Librarian, the other AL, entitled Librarian’s 2.0 Manifesto. Can’t link to the [...]

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Irving Wladawsky wrote recently about his work at the Design London center, which is a think tank for innovative creation:
In early June, Imperial College and the Royal College of Art announced the creation of a new center - Design-London - to bring together the disciplines of design, engineering, technology and business to address jointly the [...]

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There’s an intriguing article in the current issue of Knowledge Management for Development Journal entitled Stealth Transformation: Case Study of the  Introduciton of a Wiki to the UN, by Anna and Mikel Maron.
The UN didn’t want a wiki, but he specific group she was working with did want one.  They just had no idea what [...]

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Just ran across the new feature on LinkedIn that allows you to ask questions of the whole LinkedIn network, potentially opening you up to a world of information and experience. Of course, you may be opening the door to possible contracts or even employment offers, but you may just be expanding your existing network [...]

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Is it an application?  Is it a set of tools?  Is it a frame of mind?  Is it, finally, a combo of all that, evolving, remixing and coming up with new stuff before the old is even really understood?
Web 2.0 is–at least IMHO–at its core a result. It’s a result of the Open Source movement [...]

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