Office 2.0 / Enterprise 2.0
PF Anderson, Emerging
Technologies Librarian, Health
Sciences Libraries, University of
Michigan, pfa@umich.edu
© 2008 Regents of the University of Michigan. All rights reserved.

Provocative Trends?
What if …
we didn’t need hard drive space or server
space for applications?
our organizations did not need to spend
money on software for us to use?
we did not need to pay for local storage of
our documents and files?
all we really need to do our work is an
internet connection?

Office, Original
What did people do
Create documents
Track funds & expenses & data
Store, organize & access files & records
Create images, graphs, charts, diagrams
What tools did people use
Typewriters & carbon paper
Ledgers
Filing cabinets
Card catalogs
Sketchpads, graph paper, blueprints, drafting tools &
templates
Collaboration
Letters & meetings & phones

Office 1.0
What did people do
Create documents
Track funds & expenses & data
Store, organize & access files & records
Create images, graphs, charts, diagrams
What did people use
Word processing software (eg. MS Word, WordPerfect)
Spreadsheet software (eg. Lotus, Excel)
Databases (eg. Access)
Paint, draw/vector, photo manipulation software (Adobe
Photoshop, Creative Studios, Illustrator, Superpaint)
Collaboration
Email & teleconferencing & phones

Office 2.0
“The way we work is changing rapidly, offering an
enormous competitive advantage to those who
embrace the new tools that enable contextual,
agile and simplified information exchange and
collaboration to distributed workforces and
networks of partners and customers.”
<http://www.enterprise2conf.com/about/what-is-
enterprise2.0.php>

Office 2.0
What do people do
COLLABORATE & SHARE
Writing
Numbers
Images
Media
Store, organize & access files & records
Polls, surveys
Marketing & publicity
Interviews & presentations
How do they do it
Archive & access online
Share / publish
Collaborate
“Cast” or present interactively
Virtual meetings (ie. In Virtual worlds and online chatrooms)

Archive, access, share,
publish online
Slideshare.net

Archive, access, share,
publish online
DavidRothman.net – List of Medical
Wikis

Collaborate
Google Docs: http://docs.google.com/

Collaborate
Google Docs: David Rothman & Patricia
Anderson plan this session

More collaboration tools -
Zoho
Zoho Suite: http://www.zoho.com/

Zoho Office
Broad range of typical
office applications made
available as online tools
Very similar to familiar
interfaces
NOTE: Zoho Sheets is
first online spreadsheet
to recognize macros

Zoho Enterprise
Changing how we work
Notice recruitment and
interviewing tools
Project management
Database creation AND
database reports

Zoho Extras
Surveys & polls
Hiring decisionmaking
tool
Facebook integration
iPhone integration

Freebase

Thinkfree

Want more?
Online presentation tools
Online visualization and organization
tools
http://www.slideshare.net/umhealthscie
nceslibraries/

Aviary

Want more? Office 2.0
Database
http://o20db.com/

Want more? Open source
applications
http://osalt.org

Want more? Open source
applications
Type of applications

Want more? Open source
applications
Example applications & trends

Links
Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net
DavidRothman.net
Google Docs: http://docs.google.com/
Zoho Suite: http://www.zoho.com
Freebase: http://freebase.com
Thinkfree: http://www.thinkfree.com
Aviary: http://a.viary.net

Want More?
Office 2.0 Database: http://o20db.com/
Open Source Alternatives: http://osalt.org
Online Presentation Tools:
http://www.slideshare.net/umhealthsciencesli
braries/online-presentation-tools
Online Visualization and Organization Tools:
http://www.slideshare.net/umhealthsciencesli
braries/online-visualization-and-organization-
tools/