A few days ago I was on one of my groups on Linkedin, and I commented to a group member's question who was seeking academic materials on Web 2.0 and HR 2.0 as it relates to recruiting for his masters degree project. Unfortunately he only had available to him non-academic materials. Apparently, it is clear that academic materials are yet to be penned down. But how soon will this be? How soon will these never tuning back technologies stay out of the classroom books? Blogs and Wikis are are growing with thousands of viewers reading articles and white papers on business case studies and more bloggers like you and I will never stop preaching about Web 2.0 until we hear it echo back at us. The enterprise is fast realizing the use of these tools to enhance collaboration and communication and overall improve performance. Like my dear friend at the onset of this post, I think his project will make an impression on his professors. We know Web 2.0 and HR 2.0 were all created outside the classroom but so are many of the technologies we know today, that we learnt while at school. Never the case I expect to see this new trend supported at the academic level pretty soon. I'm sure I'm not alone on this.
-Paulette.