I was lucky enough to be invited to attend the Enterprise 2.0 Conference this week and was able to meet with many organizations dealing with adopting these kinds of “2.0″ tools. I saw 2 common themes emerge:

• Almost every organization is struggling with adopting and effectively using these tools.
• Lots of these projects started in somebody’s basement (both metaphorical and literal) and grew exponentially as more people with the organization started to adopt the tools

One of the most interesting presentations was from the CIA’s “Intellipedia” team. Essentially they used the Wikipedia platform within the internal intelligence community to start sharing information better within and across the multiple government intelligence agencies.

Link: http://community.e2conf.com/community/sessions/tuesday/gs03?view=all

Take a look at these terrific points from the OSS Field Sabotage manual (sound like your organization?): http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/11/sabotage-manual-from.html

As we all know, Visualforce is going to be released this weekend with the full Summer 08 release.  Are you ready and up to speed?  If you have a Salesforce Developer Account (which you should because they are free!), take a look at http://wiki.apexdevnet.com/index.php/Force.com_Tutorial:_An_Introduction_to_Visualforce

Also, there is a free webinar next week which you can register for here:

http://wiki.apexdevnet.com/events/visualforcewebinar/registration.php?d=70130000000E15w

Start kicking the Visualforce tires and post comments about your experiences here!