Laurent Kinet, co-founder of Early Stage, was interviewed by Jean-Yves Huwart (Entreprise Globale) about the basic concepts of Enterprise 2.0. The whole article and 3 additional videos are available on Entreprise Globale.

Well, we got invited by Olivier Verbeke from Knowledge Plaza to testdrive the new tool they launched called MicroPlaza. We are using the tool now for one day and yep...we are hooked up with it. There is a very nice article about it on ReadWriteWeb that we invite you to read to get a good description of what this new tool is (http://tinyurl.com/d734na). Here is just a small quote : "MicroPlaza provides you ...

We are doing a study at Early Stage on multiple eGov 2.0 initiatives around the world for the Belgian Government and we were wondering how we could take into account certain cultural differences between countries.

The reason why some similar initiatives fail miserably in one country and boom in another is something that puzzles us. If you use pragmatic parameters such as internet-penetration, available equipment and bandwith availability then you will certainly find some explanations but when these parameters are not relevant because they are the same for the countries you are comparing, well then you should look elsewhere. ...

Let's demystify Enterprise 2.0. OK, but what is it? The Web 2.0 (and tools such as Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Flickr) is becoming part of our daily lives. Just as that mindset has changed the way we use the Internet in our private lives, it is also changing our professional life and we refer to this new way of working as Enterprise 2.0. We call Enterprise 2.0 the integrated relationship management ecosystem around an organisation, made of the convergence between Internet, Intranet, Extranet and other digital management tools, leveraging collaboration and social networks. The Enterprise 2.0 concept also encompasses the overall challenges ...