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As a precursor to Rashid and Clay's posts on social media and BPM, here's a presentation that I did over 3 years ago at the BPMG conference, talking about web 2.0 and BPM. Some of the things that I was envisioning then, such as process wikis for process discovery, are starting to come into being.

Clay Richardson on how social media will drive the next wave of BPM suites.

Rashid Khan on social networking and BPM, making links from the roots of online collaboration in Lotus Notes to the current craze around Google Wave.

Dick Hirsch's comments on the Gravity demo (SAP process discovery in Google Wave). I don't disagree, but think that he's being a bit hard on them for something that's really not much more than a demo at this point.

This is cool: Gravity – Collaborative Business Process Modelling within Google Wave. Shows how SAP is combining a lightweight process discovery widget with Google Wave to create collaborative process modeling. Although not as full-featured as Lombardi's Blueprint, it's definitely in the same space.

SAP starts Beta Test for New Simple Sample Applications Featuring SAP NetWeaver BPM Technology — not clear what these will include, but at least there's some starting points for people working with it.