Belated Readings: Week 7

Enterprise 2.0: The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration; and
Corporate Blogging: Building community through persistent digital talk

What opportunities/benefit do the authors claim for introducing Enterprise 2.0/Blogging technologies into the enterprise?

Enterprise 2.0 applications defined by SLATES

Keyword	Benefits
Search	Easier to locate information within the intranet
Links	Beneficial when dense link structures reflect opinions of the users
Authoring	Company wikis and blogs have similar to blogging technologies described below
Tags	Better categorization of content and folksonomies; Assist in tracking useful intranet information
Extensions	Assist in automatic tagging and categorization of content
Signals	I.e. RSS technologies assist in keeping track of new content

Not all employees within an enterprise will benefit the same amount from Enterprise 2.0 and Blogging utilities. Employees can be split into 3 groups

1. Contributors or heavy users
2. Active or medium users
3. Inactive or low users

Benefits obtained from using blogging technologies can split into the following 3 sections

1. Work-related and Informational
2. Improved Social networking and Communication
3. Other