Enterprise 2.0 = Next Generation IT. After Wikipedia deleted the "Enterprise 2.0" entry, the Enterprise Irregulars swarmed, responding to the critique of the term by a Wikipedian editor as a "neologism of dubious utility" and taking a crack at defining it.
Jason Wood questions the logic of excising the term for the peoples' encyclopedia: Truthfully, if Wikipedia is REALLY about being the ultimate reference source for every human being on the Earth, it shouldn't matter if ONE or ONE BILLION people care about the term "Enterprise 2.0. " But when you realize that it's a term at the epicenter of a lot of creative thought and debate, I'm incensed that someone so UNFOCUSED on the business world would simply delete the entry. How is Wikipedia better for the deletion?
On his ZDNet blog, Dion Hinchcliffe provides his definition of Enterprise 2.0 and diagram (below) as heavily and logically influenced by Web 2.0: Dramatic Look. The Best Tools for Visualization - ReadWriteWeb. Visualization is a technique to graphically represent sets of data.
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