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• Web 2.0 'not all about young people': analyst

  CIOs in the enterprise must realise Web 2.0 is not simply a tool to lure Gen-Y employees, and must be made an important priority in the workplace.

• My Enterprise 2.0 Rollout: 4 Keys to Success

  Early this year, executives at Philips, a global healthcare, lighting and consumer lifestyle business, initiated talks on selecting and deploying an enterprise 2.0 suite for its 100,000 employees worldwide.

• Security, compliance come before collaboration

  Enterprise 2.0 strategies are becoming more popular among companies today, but there are serious logistical and legal challenges along with the expected benefits of using social collaboration tools.

• Social Networks in the Enterprise: 3M's Innovation Process

  3M's reputation for innovation is well established, but the company wanted to include more staff in the ideation process. Traditionally, access to the company's annual Markets of the Future brainstorming sessions was limited. By employing a new internal social networking platform, 3M was able to foster creativity and collaboration among all its employees around the world. In the two weeks the tool was open to employees, it attracted more than 1,200 people, who generated over 700 new ideas, which resulted in nine new markets for the company to explore.

• Novell's Pulse enterprise 2.0 suite goes beta next week

  Novell is ready to begin beta testing its Pulse enterprise social-networking and collaboration suite.

• 'Enterprise Facebook' enjoys major adoption

  If large companies are looking for evidence that a social networking strategy can work, Booz Allen Hamilton may have given them some.

• Social networking in business: plan less for less pain

  Productivity loss, information leakage, and defamation of fellow employees are all enough to get us fired from our jobs, unless, of course, it is done under the guise of a social network for the enterprise 2.0.