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Digital Business is offering IT experts the chance to air their views about a range of topics on Mondays and Thursdays. From June 23 - July 11 our subject is Web 2.0 strategy.

Read an extract from from Mesh Collaboration by Andy Mulholland and Nick Earle. The book charts the transformation of two fictional businesses, making use of Web 2.0 tools.

If you have strong views on this, write to us at digitalbusiness@ft.com The best correspondence will be published

Adding IT to the SME toolkit

Technology vendors are focusing on small and mid-sized enterprises and are finding they struggle to cope with complex systems

Staying connected: Technology on holiday

The temptation to throw the laptop and the BlackBerry in with the suntan lotion, sunglasses and bathing costume is irresistible for many business people

Outsourcing: Board supervision is vital close to the core

The economic climate is accelerating the trend to find outside expertise to ‘do my mess for less’, reports Stephen Pritchard

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