My river of news was flowing this morning. This post on Dion Hinchcliffes' Enterprise 2.0 blog is one of the best I've seen on the subject.

Dion ties together the updated definition of Web 2.0 included in a new report Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices with his own view of how Web 2.0 technologies apply to workers using network software within their organization.

He includes a reminder of the ground breaking work Andrew McAfee has done in providing a framework for bringing the best of Web 2.0 tools to work - SLATES.

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

"SLATES describes the combined use of effective enterprise search and discovery, using links to connect information together into a meaningful information ecosystem using the model of the Web, providing low-barrier social tools for public authorship of enterprise content, tags to let users created emergent organizational structure, extensions to spontaneously provide intelligent content suggestions similar to Amazon's recommendation system, and signals to let users know when enterprise information they care about has been published or updated, such as when a corporate RSS feed of interest changes."

There  a great deal more in Dion's must-read post.