Click here to receive your FREE subscription to Campus Technology Home > Gartner: E-learning Market Pushing Toward Open Source Interview Gartner: E-learning Market Pushing Toward Open Source 6/4/2008 By Linda L Briggs With open source products

when something like this is developed and sold as a product in itself...how do we trust its authenticity without full disclosure? Does Gartner have client that are on the Hype Cycle? Would it hurt their stock options if they were in the trough versus the plateau?

Over at ComputerWorld , an article titled Gartner's top 10 strategic technologies for 2008:Whether you incorporate these technologies or not, they're not going away, the research firm says Here are three items from the list: Green IT --I don't view this as too much of a stretch...you want to catch attention now a days, add green infront of anything...just like the letter "e" oh so long ago.

Found via Big Dog Little Dog - It's information collaboration - discusses the use of Wikis within organizations. Some of the points it makes: Gartner predicts that by 2009 half of companies worldwide will be using wikis Examples of use Acronyms and industry terminology, best sales practices, case studies, client information, meeting minutes.

about/work/codes/participation-online.aspx Gartner’s PUBLIC WEB PARTICIPATION GUIDELINES  http://blogs.gartner.com/gartner-public-web-participation-guidelines/ .   Thomas Nelson Blogging Policy http://michaelhyatt.blogs.com/workingsmart/2005/03/corporate_blogg_1.html  Plaxo’s Communication (Blogging) Policies  http://blog.plaxoed.

He also pointed me to a Gartner quote: Enterprise social software will be the biggest new workplace technology success story of this decade. This certainly helps us understand why you might want to have someone like KP's sales and marketing to help you sell community software into the enterprise.

Web 2.0 hasn't died, it's actually morphed into a mainstream term that Gartner and IBM use. Gartner Says Web 2.0 Offers Many Opportunities for Growth, But Few Enterprises Will Immediately Adopt All Aspects Necessary for Significant Business Impact While it is straightforward to add specific technologies, such as Ajax or RSS to products, platforms and applications, it is more difficult to add a social dimension... that have a social dimension, and the result will be a slow impact on business, according to Gartner, Inc. Keywords: eLearning 2.

Not so fast says Gartner. According to their most recent Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle, public virtual worlds have not yet hit the bottom of the Trough of Disillusionment but they have been moved from the 5-10 years to 2-5 years column in terms of years to mainstream adoption. So what gives.... In K-Zero’s Virtual Worlds by Sector, I don’t see an Enterprise Learning and Collaboration Sector and Gartner is not yet breaking out public and private virtual worlds on their hype cycle? What gives?

I'm not sure the same is true for classroom specialists. As I heard today, one of the City of London's largest law firms has put a complete block on international travel for training. I pity the poorer organisations. Assima Managing Director, Paul Stevens presented some strong arguments for effective IT training: ROI is directly related to the speed of adoption of new systems and processes and the proficiency of users (Prosci). Poorly trained users require six times more support than professionally trained users (Gartner).

My attempt here is to take some of Kurzweil and Vinge’s thoughts and mash them up with some more pragmatic guidance from Analysts such as Steve Prentice at Gartner who suggests that “By the end of 2011, 80 percent of active internet users (and Fortune 500 enterprises) will have a “second life,” but