Enterprise 2.0 Leaders Amongst 100 Most Influential in IT
Congratulations to Andrew McAfee and Ross Mayfield for making it onto eWeek’s list of the 100 most influential people in IT for 2008, respectively (and now respectfully) the “torch-bearer for the emerging Enterprise 2.0 market” and “a thought leader in the burgeoning Web 2.0 collaboration software market.”
Other IT commentators who have been known to voice their opinions on Enterprise 2.0, including Tom Davenport and Nicholas Carr, also make it onto the list.
It’s a shame it’s so US-focused though. I noticed very few Canadian, Indian or British names.
For those of you who missed out, well there’s always next year.
Niall - your very own recent Oscars list was also US-dominated, and I think that may be because of the heavy tech and sociological bias to Web2.0/E2.0. There is a clear appetite for knowledge and a lot of well informed evangelists, certainly in the UK who are trying to raise awareness and understanding about how companies can embrace the shift to the social web. Yourself and Euan Semple, for example. What the UK has never had is that high-level acceptance of failure that presides in the US, where the Web2.0 ideal of ‘try it, make small mistakes fast, learn and move on’ is a natural extension of the their overall corporate culture.