I remember two or three years ago having conversations with colleagues about the eventual penetration of social software and web services into the work-o-sphere of organizations ... I called it something vague, like "blog-like derivatives".

Here, via Rob Patterson's link to an announcement by SocialText's Ross Mayfield, is an early example of the types of "solutions" that are now available to organizations.

As I and others have noted before, it's very likely that the use of such configurations will lead to interesting changes to the design of work, and lead to a greater need for organizational development initiatives ... coaching, moderation, workshops addressing corporate blogging (external and internal) and the use of wikis, etc.  Ley's call it eOD for now.

Today we announced SuiteTwo, The Enterprise 2.0 Suite powered by Intel. Intel is distributing the Best of Breed wiki (Socialtext), blog (Six Apart), Feed Aggregation (Newsgator) and Feed Publishing (SimpleFeed), supported by Spikesource, through its channels including Dell, NEC, Ingram, Novell and Red Hat.

This fulfills Andrew McAfee's vision of Enterprise 2.0. In a box. Made simple for Small-to-Mid-sized Enterprises. Extensible because we've all supported open APIs. Enterprise 2.0 is freeform social software adapted for organizations. SuiteTwo is the first offering to realize the SLATES paradigm:

SLATES = Search | Links | Authorship | Tags | Extensions | Signals

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