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This workshop provides an overview of the Web 2.0 tools and the changes these social tools and user focused ease of use tools play for enterprise (organizations that are large to small with business, non-profit, or public service focus). There have great changes made to tools and services provided on the web in the last 5 years or so as the layers and use of the tools on top of the web browser have changed for the better. This change has value to the organizations using the web and not just the people using sites.
The workshop focuses on conceptual models to help people things about the important components for success using the social web tools and services to augment the organization’s reach and engage better with customers and employees.
The workshops covers advantages, lessons learned, and current along with potential gaps around deciding how to make first steps, how to select tools, and how to increase the chances for success with the Web 2.0 tools for Enterprise use.
Thomas Vander Wal is a popular speaker on tagging/folksonomy, social web, and web applications around well structured information. He is often recognized as the person who coined the term ‘folksonomy’ in 2004, as well as some of his other terms: Personal InfoCloud, Local InfoCloud, Come to Me Web, digital model of attraction etc. Thomas is Principal, and Senior Consultant at InfoCloud Solutions, a social web consulting firm. Thomas has been working professionally on the web since 1995 (with professional IT background beginning in 1988) and has breadth and depth across many roles and disciplines around web design, social web development & research and general web development.