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• Getting Web 2.0 right: The hard stuff vs. the harder stuff - Josh Ross shares yet another example of how technology is often the easiest part of the the Enterprise 2.0 Three Legged Stool. It is the other two legs (processes and culture) that require additional attention in order for the implementation to succeed.
• GigaOM White Paper: The Facts & Fiction of Bandwidth Caps - GigaOM - Om Malik rails against bandwidth caps from Internet providers. This trend is the beginning to the shift of bandwidth as commodity. Soon this will be like all utilities and we will pay per use (just like kilowatt hours or gallons of water). The difference should be choice. I can’t choose my water or electricity provider, but I do have choice for my Internet provider. And the competition should help keep per MB pricing low.

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• Learning 2.0 Strategy : eLearning Technology - Tony Karrer's treatise on Learning 2.0. I plan to go back and review it in detail later, but it seems sound save for Aspect #2 "Avoid the Culture Question". His "stick you head in the sand concept misses the numerous opportunities to use proven organization development techniques to drive culture change.
• How Web 2.0 has changed the face of education - The title says it all - nice summary article on how social networking is creating new learning strategy opportunities.
• Why Dell.com (was) More Enterprise 2.0 Than Dell IdeaStorm - O’Reilly Radar - A thoughtful post from Tim O'Reilly ponders companies that are using Web 2.0 ideas/strategies for their supply chain. It takes a new and interesting perspective on the usual "employee collaboration" focus of Enterprise 2.0

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• Should Knowledge Workers Have Enterprise 2.0 Ratings? - Andrew McAfee's latest post posits the performance management standards that an organization might employ to measure/motivate employee use of Enterprise 2.0 (aka Knowledge Management 1.53) tools for collaboration. This is incredibly important as the greatest challenge to the success of E2.0 deployments is fostering the cultural change. By measuring/rewarding participation the organization demonstrates the importance of E2.0 collaboration.
• Examples of eLearning 2.0 : eLearning Technology - Tony Karrer pull together a nice list of tactical examples of how different organizations are using Web 2.0 social technologies in their learning and business practices.

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• The Social Enterprise - Steve Gillmor at TechCrunchIT posts thoughtful reflection on (some) IT leaders resistance to social applications in the enterprise. From the article: "No wonder the reaction is fear and denial; the saving grace is that a new wave of middle management will not tolerate the arrogance of earlier times, when IT was the implementor of corporate policies designed to prevent employees from wasting time on the job."
• Social Learning : eLearning Technology - Tony Karrer's blog's his thoughts on Grockit and a few other social learning communities/platforms…

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• Ten Aspects of Web 2.0 Strategy That Every CTO and CIO Should Know [Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog] - Don't enter into the the article lightly, but Dion does a great job of summarizing some of the most salient concepts to consider when building a "Web 2.0" business strategy. Skip the verbose diagram, read the ten points then come back to the diagram and mull it over. (Come back and review it later if you don't have time to mull things over now…)
• Training Method Trends : eLearning Technology - Tony Karrer pulls together the results of a survey done by the eLearningGuild that marks the trends in learning (training) delivery methods. Nothing truly surprising in the results, but a useful gathering of statistics nonethe less.

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