A series of worth­while, and lead­ing, blog entries that oth­ers have writ­ten and I’m start­ing to link together for you:

Inno­va­tion Cre­ators offers “Par­tic­i­pa­tion is the Killer App”:

Whether it is end user par­tic­i­pa­tion in con­tent dri­ven con­ver­sa­tions on blogs and wikis, or end user devel­oped appli­ca­tions, mash-​​ups and wid­gets, I think that it is par­tic­i­pa­tion that key dif­fer­ence between Enter­prise 2.0 and Enter­prise 1.0