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Enterprise 2.0: The Nature of the Firm - ReadWriteWeb

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Official launch of the Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications list - Trends in the Living Networks

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technology has streamlined, automated, and simplified nearly aspect of the business information landscape
hat has not changed significantly, however, is the nature of human interactions in business – email, conference calls, and presentations by experts to non-experts are still the dominant means of interaction
With the advent of Web 2.0 technologies, however, the Internet has morphed from a presentation medium to an interactive platform in just a few years.
blogosphere now features 70 million blogs and is growing by 120,000 blogs per day, or 1.4 blogs per second. In addition, there are roughly 17 new blog posts created per second, for a total of 1.5 million new posts per day. As of September 2006, Wikipedia boasted 1.7 million pages and over 150,000 authors.
The IBM Institute for Business Value study “The End of Advertising as We Know It” reports that more than 50 percent of Americans aged 20-30 years old use Facebook (based on an analysis of Facebook ad data and U.S. census information), and among Americans under the age of 35, social networking and user-generated content sites have overtaken TV as a primary media. But this is not just a young person’s medium: According to Comscore, another web analysis site, “Visitors to MySpace.com and Friendster.com generally skew older, with people age 25 and older comprising 68 and 71 percent of their user bases, respectively.”
Community and social networking technologies such as blogs, wikis, and message boards—all of which provide different frameworks for user-generated content—help facilitate conversations, communication, and transparency, enabling connections between people and information, both within and outside of the organization. These captured connections and conversations ensure not only greater business performance, tighter relationships, and better overall alignment, but business intelligence as well.
In a recent blog post, analyst Josh Bersin of Bersin & Associates listed some of the characteristics of Millenials, which included a desire to work in “[open] and flat organizations” as “part of a tribe.” He also noted that Millennials make “heavy use of technology (messaging, collaboration, online learning) as a daily part of their work lives.”