It's Autumn: Let the trade shows begin

I can tell it's almost Autumn: the trade show season is in full swing. We're including information on news from several shows this week, from RFID to innovation to the InformationWeek 500 conference. InformationWeek always does a great job of tapping into where CIOs are going in the next year. Nearly 40 percent of those surveyed said that they use RFID in a limited number of deployments--though that seems a bit high to me, as RFID does not come up much in my interviews. Nonetheless, there were some pretty nifty applications coming out of RFID World this week. Unsurprisingly, web services technologies are also being implemented quickly. Some 70 percent of companies have widely adopted the technology, while 24 percent say that they are using the technologies in limited use. And Web 2.0, which we cover in the news section, is also on the rise. Fifty-five percent of those surveyed use wikis, blogs, and social networking tools for internal communications, while 27 percent do so with customers. What do you think of the numbers? Are they on track with what's happening in your organization? Let me know. -Patty [1]