I've been hinting at this for a while, but the cat is now out of the bag. Here comes 2008!
See our official PR below - the summary, we are thrilled to be working with a great set of people to help us steer our research (upcoming Q1 2008 - AIIM's Enterprise 2.0 Market IQ), and training program (late Q1 and into Q2), to make sure we aren't drinking too much of the kool-aid, and are hitting a deeper mark in Enterprise 2.0 than most treatments are giving these days. Hope it doesn't kill us, but looks to be a lot of fun and work. We'll see...
The official PR is below (and live on our main site).
Errata: Stowe - let me fall on my virtual sword that that somehow in the editing/writing process, we excised the E in Stowe (changed below) ... ah, the permanence and changeability of our own blogs and websites can at the least change this. A thousand pardons nonetheless! They don't call this the Read/Write Web for naught, eh?
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AIIM Assembles Industry Brain Trust as Advisers for Focus on Enterprise 2.0
AIIM - The ECM Association
12/18/2007
Silver
Spring, MD - December 18, 2007 - The AIIM Market Intelligence group has
assembled an advisory panel consisting of some of the industry's
foremost thinkers on Enterprise 2.0.
The panel is a veritable "Who's who" consisting of:
- Andrew McAfee, Harvard Business School professor credited with coining the term Enterprise 2.0 in 2006;
- David Weinberger, Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society, a co-author of
"The Cluetrain Manifesto" and author of "Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder";
- Stowe Boyd, industry consultant, prolific blogger, speaker and coiner of the term "social software";
- Patti Anklam, knowledge management consultant and author of Net Work;
- Eric Tsui,
Professor of Knowledge Management at The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University and also ex-Chief Research Officer, Asia Pacific, Computer
Sciences Corporation.
"We are proud to have this distinguished panel of advisers to help us
with the development of our upcoming AIIM Market IQ on Enterprise 2.0,
but also a new AIIM Certificate Training Program on Enterprise 2.0,"
stated Carl Frappaolo, VP of Market Intelligence. "We did not want to
provide yet another offering on Enterprise 2.0 that was either narrow
or overly enthusiastic. By assembling this group of advisers we
anticipate that our Enterprise 2.0 programs will reflect a broad
spectrum of opinion and experience, bringing the past forward into the
present and helping to define/create the future, showing the worthwhile
uses of Enterprise 2.0."
Enterprise 2.0 is a concept on the minds of many business and
technical managers alike, although early market research has shown that
there is great confusion over this concept. AIIM is dedicating
significant resources to this research project, making Enterprise 2.0 a
major cornerstone of its activities in 2008. The resulting AIIM Market
IQ on Enterprise 2.0 and AIIM Certificate Training program on
Enterprise 2.0 will cut through the confusion and provide much needed
clarity, providing insights into where and how Enterprise 2.0 would be
best used.
As part of this effort, AIIM will be executing an extensive market
survey of business and IT managers. "The expert insights of our
distinguished panel of advisers will be complemented by extensive
research into real world practices and opinions obtained through the
AIIM community of over 50,000 members - representing the largest
assembly of content-savvy companies who could take advantage of
Enterprise 2.0 solutions," stated Dan Keldsen, AIIM Market Intelligence
Director. "This is a perspective that is much needed in order to
accurately represent the reality of Enterprise 2.0, and not just
unexamined promises and hype."
Save the Dates:
- AIIM Market IQ on Enterprise 2.0 survey launches on January 7th, 2008.
- AIIM Enterprise 2.0 Certificate Training Program premiers at
the 2008 AIIM International Exposition & Conference (Boston, MA on
March 3, 2008).
- AIIM Market IQ on Enterprise 2.0 report available the end of March 2008.
- AIIM Market IQ Webinar on Enterprise 2.0, discussing the findings of the report, will be held on Thursday, March 27th, 2008.
Early underwriters of the Market IQ on Enterprise 2.0 program include: EMC (www.emc.com), SpringCM (www.springcm.com) and Socialtext (www.socialtext.com).
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About AIIM (www.aiim.org) - The Enterprise Content Management Association
AIIM is the international authority on Enterprise Content Management
(ECM) - the tools and technologies used to capture, manage, store,
preserve, and deliver content and documents related to organizational
processes. ECM enables four key business drivers: Continuity,
Collaboration, Compliance, and Costs.
For over 60 years, AIIM has been the leading non-profit organization
focused on helping users to understand the challenges associated with
managing documents, content, records, and business processes. Today,
AIIM is international in scope, independent, implementation-focused,
and, as the representative of the entire ECM industry - including
users, suppliers, and the channel - acts as the industry's
intermediary.
As a neutral and unbiased source of information, AIIM serves the needs
of its members and the industry by providing educational opportunities,
professional development, reference and knowledge resources, networking
events, and industry advocacy.
Visit the AIIM Market Intelligence blogs of:
Carl Frappaolo, Vice President of Market Intelligence at Taking AIIM http://www.takingaiim.com and
Dan Keldsen, Director of Market Intelligence at BizTechTalk http://www.biztechtalk.com.
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Contact:
Beth Mayhew
Director of Marketing
301.755.2681
bmayhew<at>aiim<dot>org
Carl Frappaolo
Vice President, AIIM Market Intelligence
617.933.2584
cfrappaolo<at>aiim<dot>org
AIIM - The ECM Association
1100 Wayne Avenue, Suite 1100, Silver Spring, MD 20910, 301.587.8202
