On Friday, December 7, a group from BSG Alliance were the inaugural class for our new Web & Enterprise 2.0 Foundations course, licensed from Hinchcliffe & Co.

Instructors who led the course and are certified to teach it (including yours truly) were Dean Landis (NY office), Kelvin King (Houston office), and Elizabeth Hurley (West coast).  You can read more of Elizabeth's impressions of the class on the Ning:  http://peoplefirst.ning.com/profile/ElizabethHurley

The agenda for the 1-day course is packed.  The morning is an overview of the 7 principles of Web 2.0 and is a condensed version of a full-day class that Hinchcliffe teaches on the subject. 

The afternoon is a survey of Enterprise 2.0, going from 1) definition, to 2) case studies, to 3) a survey of tools and products, to 4) a discussion of objections and strategies, and 5) ending with an overview of the Next Generation Enterprise.

The participants - of varying backgrounds and roles in the company - gave it good feedback from a learning perspective, but more importantly, provided a lot of great input for how it could be revised and improved.  Barbara McGill is project managing the customization of the course, which we expect to be revised and ready by year end. 

In addition to using the course as our foundation for web & enterprise 2.0 concepts, terminology and examples, we also are actively promoting it to customers in 2 forms:

- a series of multi-company, public classes, offered in cities around the U.S.  A full list of dates and locations can be found on the BSG Concours website:  http://www.bsgconcours.com/eventAgenda.aspx?id=1328

- private, single-company offerings sold to companies that want to offer it to a group or cohort from across their organization to educate a number of people at once as a way to launch an Enterprise 2.0 initiative.

Junko Matthews is leading the customer promotion for the public classes and private company sales, but if you have any leads or suggestions, please contact her:  junkomatthews@bsgalliance.com