John Sharp linked to a short but intersting podcast by Gartner on Web 2.0. For those of you who cannot listen to podcasts from work, I will let you know that it is only about 10 minutes long, so if you are interested in listening to it at home it won't take up too much time. The short podcasts discusses the difficulty of implementing 2.0 tools and balancing the issue of control in an enterprise environment. "You can take these Web 2.0 technologies, whether they be blogs, or wikis, social networks, and the methodologies like AJAX and mashups and you can make them approach enterprise class applications with the right kind process and controls in place you can make these usable within the enterprise. One other caution though, is if you put too much control on it you basically kill it. You kill it right off the bat." It is all about control. More people have control or want more control and that tends to freak out many institutional IT people.

Hopefully as more of these technologies become more accepted and ingrained our daily lives, perhaps hospital IT departments will find a happy balance.