We were recently invited to chat with Mzinga’s Aaron Strout about Enterprise 2.0. You can check out the blog post here or download the mp3. Of note: Aaron’s claim that we are the “Click and Clack” of social media at BearingPoint, and that we use “Jedi Mind Tricks” to help management understand its value. He is correct on both counts.

At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston earlier this week, vendors and their platforms took center stage as the nascent market for social computing software continued to heat up. Technology is a key enabler – BearingPoint’s own firm-wide wiki is a good example – but keeping a close eye on the workforce issues tied up in Enterprise 2.0 is important. After all, the Gen Y crowd is part of the reason wikis, blogs, and social networking turned corporate in the first place.

How can companies engage Gen Y and take advantage of their collaborative approach to work?
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We’re at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference this week, and had the opportunity to present at the unconference portion - Enterprise2Open. Several folks asked for the deck, which I’ve posted below. You can follow us on Twitter here and here if you want to see what we’re up to while we’re here.

Nate did a great job of giving a run down of what BE is doing around Enterprise 2.0. Slides to come.

Oliver Marks blogs about “What is Enterprise 2.0” and what E2.0 means to the corporate IT department - a truly important definition. Getting IT on board the E2.0 bandwagon is the difference between waiting a year for social computing to catch on in your organization and waiting much, much longer. Marks writes that, “At this point it appears that enterprise 2.0 is often seen as a threat to security by most IT department management.” That maybe true, but IT controls some hot commodities that E2.0 evangelists inside corporations want to get their hands on - SSO (most commonly, AD), and a friendly firewall policy, to name a few.

Most importantly, E2.0 foreshadows the eventual transformation of IT from the people who provide your desktop applications to the people who run the machinery that keeps all the user-provisioned, in the cloud apps talking to one another. We all know utility computing is the future - where does IT fit? It becomes a provider of shared services, provisioning user profiles and authentication out to cloud apps selected by end users. Moving to this model will let IT focus on what it does best, and let users focus on what they do best - making their own decisions about what technologies work best for them.