Paolo Bormida — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:17:36 GMT

Alexander,

thank you for the thoughtful story, it largely confirms many fears I had about the web 2.0 hype in the enterprise, but also gave me many insight into not-so-obvious details of the whole thing (like the IT department funding model that has to change).

I have seen some of the things you mention happen, and I strongly agree that a different rewarding scheme must be put in place, in order for collaboration technologies, like wikis, to work in an enterprise. With no good rewarding scheme, web 2.0 efforts in an enterprise would rarely gain an effective user base, nor bring any innovation to it.

You did a good job of making clear that patterns that made web 2.0 tools work quite well on the internet, are not guaranteed to work the same in the enterprise arena, since numbers and people dinamics are rather different.

Paolo Bormida — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:51:43 GMT

Just to point you in the direction of someone who think Web 2.0 in the enterprise may work, but the job is an hard one, I would like to share with you this link:

http://blogs.sun.com/peterreiser/category/Enterprise+2.0

I had the precious opportunity to meet Mr. Reiser in person during a presentation he gave to a selected audience at our company site and the insights we obtained were really useful.

Mr Reiser really do know how to make Web 2.0 work for an enterprise: follow his blog!

Boxes and Arrows: Comments by Paolo Bormida