How Web2.0 changes the enterprise

Good stuff from Peter Reiser on Web2.0 and the enterprise:

People  are:

• expressing themselves trough blogging, flickring, youtubing, twittering etc.
• contributing  on wikis, forum and share their best practices, know-how
• building large  open source applications with excellent quality and vibrant community support
• active participating  trough rating, commenting content, downloading videos, photos, blogs
• are building social contexts  by join social sites like facebook, linkedin, xing etc.
• having  fun by leveraging mashups like google maps, etc.

and what is happening with the good old Intranet ?

• boring  portals centric sites  with mainly  top down information flow
• complicated access from the Internet via VPN, SecureID Card etc.
• stale and obsolete content
• inefficient search
• etc.

… and a lot of frustrated users  escaping from the Intranet – and start using  Facebook, Ning or other Social sites  and have fun …. 

Worth your time to read it.

~ by brianherman on May 3, 2008.