Enterprise 2.0 Conference - Boston

Well...here I am sitting in a grungy boston-style hostel, getting all excited for the Enterprise 2.0 conference. With sessions like the ones listed below, I have high hopes.

• Social = me first
• Collective Intelligence: Monkeys or Memes?
• Social Project Management: Everything Big Is Small Again
• Leveraging Your Community as a Competitive Weapon

With attendees like Andrew McAfee, Ross Mayfield, Don Tapscott it is sure setting up to be interesting. I hope to hear their innovative insights into the Enterprise 2.0 world. Some pertinent questions I hope to get answered:

1. What exactly is Enterprise 2.0?
2. What tools does it utilize?
3. Which companies are leading this innovation?
4. How much of this is open and transparent to the public (i.e. will the rest of us benefit from it)?
5. Philosophical - what is this doing to the corporate structure?

Stay tuned and I will post the answers I get throughout the conference. As well as more blog posts about some of the conference's interesting points.

Anyway, some other thoughts about the conference...I am worried that the conference planners will focus too much on introducing these tools to a fresh audience, rather than delving into some of the growth and middle to post maturity questions that arise when implementing Ent 2.0 tools. We'll see...the track I am interested in attending Social Tools for the Enterprise.

Finally, let me send off with a mention to my new reading interest:

• The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
  

The book was recommended to me by a colleague, one of those "you need to read this right now" statements. You know where the conversation gets very serious and you take it like gospel. Well I picked it up and it is a compelling read so far. In fact, I can't help but think that Web 2.0 is a natural progression to the singularity. I mean the information that is coming out of wikipedia, digg, delicious, the blogosphere is putting so much information and knowledge at our fingertips. The next logical step is to design software to cogitate it all.

So far that is what the book is about and especially how that software will eventually be able to "cogitate" it 100 times better than our brains can. Then the singularity has come and past and robots are officially here...Roy (the author) is predicting this to happen by 2050. I think Web 2.0 will make that date come sooner. A recommended read definitely.

Thanks for the read and happy wiki days to you.

Steve