A quick note to remind readers that the Enterprise 2.0 Rave is now a virtual event that can be attended, for free, by all who register. The program, organized by Longworth Venture Partners and sponsored by FAST, kicks off at 2 p.m. on Monday in discussions led by Euan Semple, John Musser, Jevon MacDonald, Susan Scrupski, Joe McKendrick, and Bill Ives.

Join us again on Tuesday May 22nd at 11 a.m. focused on adoption issues with Enterprise 2.0 projects. Speakers include Andrew McAfee, JP Rangaswami, Euan Semple, Jenny Ambrozek and Jim McGee.

Find out more and register.

In preparation for the Enterprise 2.0 Rave, now being run as a virtual event, the co-conveners of the event have put together a brief survey on market readiness that we hope you’ll take the time to fill out. We’ll be gathering responses and sharing the results with those who take the survey.

Take the survey at the URL below and feel free to spread the word or point to it from your own blog – the more people we can get to participate the more useful it’ll be:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=937203810006

Can I confess something. I have come to loath travel. Having knocked off Antarctica and Greenland and Iceland before I was 25 (courtesy the U.S. Navy) and spent a 20-year career in corporate communications traveling the world first and business class on other people’s money (back when first and business class actually meant something), I find airplane travel these days about as satisfying as careening down a Mexican mountainside on a 40-year old bus designed to hold 50 people with 162 fellow travelers and 57 live chickens.

You can imagine my delight, then, when Francois Gossieaux of Corante fame invited me to take part in Enterprise Rave 2.0, a 24 hour Enterprise 2.0 brainstorming session with fellow practitioners and guests on May 21-22 at the trendy Hudson Hotel in New York City. As fate would have it, I live across the street from the Hudson. If I turn my head slightly to the left and look out the window as I type this I can see it. That’s my kind of travel.

The program looks outstanding. Andrew McAfee will kick off the event on the evening of May 21 with a keynote address that frames the issues around E 2.0 and Euan Semple will kick off the next morning session with an “Introduction/Provocation.” (Euan is an outstanding provocateur and I mean that as a compliment.) Andy McAfee will instigate the afternoon. The rest of the schedule consists of facilitated breakout group discussions and reports and a final wrapup at the end of the day.

If you are a practitioner looking at deploying web 2.0 tools in your enterprise or actively struggling with pilot projects to try to do that, don’t miss this event. And if you are planning to go, use the link in the left sidebar (at Enterprise Web 2.0 if you’re seeing this somewhere else) to get a $250 discount. I’m looking forward to welcoming you to my neighborhood.