An Enterprise 2.0 case study

Slide 2: First up a… ..Q&A

Slide 4: What is DIGWWW?

Slide 5: A Discussion Group about the World Wide Web

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Slide 7: Who?

Slide 8: A group of people passionate about the web, collaboration & innovation

Slide 9: Started in the UK at a global blue chip company

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Slide 11: What’s the point?

Slide 12: We discuss web technologies & culture, their impact to work, society & the company

Slide 13: More specifically… Web 2.0

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Slide 15: Anything else to know?

Slide 16: This is not our job..

Slide 17: …we do this in spare cycles & lunch hours

Slide 18: …because we are passionate about this stuff

Slide 19: History

Slide 20: 12 July 2006 th

Slide 21: The first DIGWWW session

Slide 22: The Topic?

Slide 23: The Rise of Blogging

Slide 24: Approx 10 people in attendance

Slide 25: Blogs were discussed in general So was the blog ‘scene’ within the company

Slide 26: Opportunities were explored and a blog platform identified

Slide 27: Subsequent discussions took place every 2 weeks

Slide 28: August 2006

Slide 29: Following on from the first meeting…

Slide 30: The first dedicated internal blog was launched…

Slide 31: On an open source flexible platform… Drupal

Slide 32: digwww.***.com A community blog for all things www and web2.0 related

Slide 33: Today the same blog has a global audience, 45,000 hits a month and receives contributions from a diverse user base.

Slide 34: Before long, a number of other blogs started to appear…

Slide 35: …all inspired by DIGWWW

Slide 36: September 2006

Slide 37: An idea was put forward at a DIGWWW meeting….

Slide 38: …hold a week of web 2.0 related workshops and seminars

Slide 39: At the same time a new term emerged, for web 2.0 within the enterprise…

Slide 40: Enterprise aka E2 2.0

Slide 41: …thus was born the concept of E2 week

Slide 42: e2.***.com …&

Slide 43: November 2006

Slide 44: e2 week Nov 13 - 17 November 2006

Slide 45: A week of events

Slide 46: Showcasing Enterprise 2.0 technologies…

Slide 47: exploring the culture…

Slide 48: promoting what we already have within the company…

Slide 49: Blogs The Future of Blogging within Speaker: the company Dr James Bellini wikis Wikipedia Speaker: PODCASTS Bill Thompson MASHUPS E2 WIKIFEVER Blogathon

Slide 51: All sessions were podcast and made available for immediate download.

Slide 52: Local event. Global audience.

Slide 53: Thought leaders from across the org participated in our Blogathon.

Slide 54: An opportunity to be heard for many

Slide 55: it was also at e2 week we met…

Slide 57: Bill Thompson BBC journalist Technology critic “tame geek” Nice guy

Slide 58: He thought we were interesting (?) so has been back a few times to participate in DIGWWW meetings.

Slide 59: Was e2 week a success?

Slide 60: 150 blog posts

Slide 61: 324 comments

Slide 62: 298,597 hits to date on e2.***.com

Slide 63: a worldwide audience

Slide 64: a massive success

Slide 65: December 2006

Slide 66: Conference Reports was launched

Slide 68: An open system for anyone in the company to post conference reports

Slide 69: We wanted to get the most out of the $$$ we spend sending people to conferences

Slide 70: Now we have a platform to share your conference knowledge with the rest of the company

Slide 71: RSS enabled

Slide 72: Blogging enabled

Slide 73: Subscription enabled

Slide 74: Tagging enabled !

Slide 75: Conferencereports.***.com Leveraging knowledge

Slide 76: January 2007

Slide 77: DIGWWW started looking at Social Bookmarking

Slide 78: that’s tagging content, and making it available online

Slide 79: open source and paid for systems were identified…

Slide 80: more on this later…

Slide 81: February 2007

Slide 82: News travels fast and far…

Slide 83: ..and Simon Revell is asked to address an audience of business leaders in Vienna

Slide 84: the topic

Slide 85: Web 2.0 within the firewall

Slide 86: the response?

Slide 88: Pretty good!

Slide 89: We learnt we were ahead of the curve in the evaluation and adoption of web2.0 / enterprise 2.0

Slide 90: Which is thanks in part to DIGWWW

Slide 91: Also in February…

Slide 92: Attensa RSS plugin for Outlook

Slide 93: An RSS reader discovered by DIGWWW…

Slide 94: Is rolled out via the helpdesk

Slide 95: …so now anyone within the company can subscribe to RSS feeds via their inbox

Slide 96: March 2007

Slide 97: A broom cupboard in Sandwich was converted to a community podcast studio.

Slide 98: An old room… with older kit…

Slide 99: A perfect setting for some free innovation! podcasting!

Slide 100: Now anyone can create a podcast

Slide 101: Also in March…

Slide 102: Ben Gardner spoke at the IPI-ConfEX conference…

Slide 103: He told them about some of the DIGWWW work

Slide 104: and demoed some of the tools we use, including…

Slide 105: W.O.S aka web server on a stick

Slide 106: DIGWWW use it for safely evaluating new web2.0 tools

Slide 107: the response?

Slide 108: Once again we were told how ahead of the pack we were in comparison to other companies

Slide 109: April 2007

Slide 110: Another request to speak…… ..

Slide 111: This time for Scott Gavin & Simon Revell

Slide 112: To address the British Computer Society… …at Canterbury University

Slide 113: The topic

Slide 114: Web 2.0 & Enterprise 2.0

Slide 115: It was at this talk the world began to…

Slide 116: Charlie meet

Slide 117: Telling the story of how enterprise 2.0 is changing the way we work ….

Slide 118: the response?

Slide 119: a fantastic response from the BCS & the University…

Slide 120: plus Scott’s ‘Meet Charlie’ has been viewed by 20,000 people around the world

Slide 121: …and Scott (with Charlie) is now being referenced as an industry expert!

Slide 122: all this from DIGWWW beginnings…

Slide 123: May 2007

Slide 124: Remember the tagging?

Slide 125: DIGWWW is launching…

Slide 126: tags.***.com

Slide 128: an invite only beta

Slide 129: user groups will take up social bookmarking for the first time

Slide 130: open source software…

Slide 131: …the potential for transforming info sharing and retention

Slide 132: June 2007

Slide 133: DIGWWW starts planning for an Enterprise 2.0 week in the U.S…

Slide 134: Securing a slot at the iLearn week…

Slide 135: Advising group x on e2 and its state at the company…

Slide 136: Talking to Group A…

Slide 137: Another… More… ..Departments

Slide 138: The freedom of information topic was started…

Slide 139: challenging the way we store & access our information

Slide 140: Topics

Slide 141: DIGWWW has discussed and explored the following topics

Slide 142: RSS

Slide 143: Mash Ups

Slide 144: Tagging

Slide 145: Widgets

Slide 146: Blogs

Slide 147: Wikis

Slide 148: Culture

Slide 149: Numbers

Slide 150: Remember those sites we mentioned?

Slide 151: conferencereports.***.com e2.***.com digwww.***.com

Slide 152: Some Statistics

Slide 153: Conference Reports launched December 2006

Slide 154: 93,438 hits

Slide 155: e2 launched November 2006

Slide 156: 298,597 hits

Slide 157: digwww launched August 2006

Slide 158: 373,434 hits

Slide 159: Annual DIGWWW Budget?

Slide 160: $0.00

Slide 161: Thoughts

Slide 162: It started with a..

Slide 163: Outlook meeting invite to some UK folk 12 July 2006

Slide 164: It’s fuelled by…

Slide 165: the desire to connect & collaborate

Slide 166: passion

Slide 167: innovation

Slide 168: and

Slide 169: anyone who wants to take part

Slide 170: Happy 1 Birthday st

Slide 171: Slides by: Scott Gavin

Slide 172: The End…