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Liveblogging Enterprise 2.0: Keynote Panel Day Two

Joe Schueller (Procter & Gamble) For us it’s about finding the ways that these new trends – enterprise 2.0 or web 2.0 broadly – work within our enterprise to make us more effective as an overall...

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This way to enterprise 2.0

While viewing these pictures, hum the tune to “Do You Know the Way to San José” – the version in my head is Frankie Goes to Hollywood, but you may have an earlier version.

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Liveblogging Enterprise 2.0 – Using RSS to Bridge the Information Gap

RSS: Bridging the Gap Between the People and Information that Drive Business Speaker – Sam Weber, VP Technical Services, KnowNow Customer story – large outsourcing company and the challenges they face...

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Liveblogging Enterprise 2.0: Marketing 2.0 – Set your customers free!

Jeffrey Walker from Atlassian and Willms Buhse, CoreMedia Marketing 2.0 – the Beauty comes from the inside Someone else was going to speak this am, but we were asked to do this session via twitter this...

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To Liveblog or Not to Liveblog: That is the Question

Now that I’ve had some time since the Enterprise 2.0 conference, I want to reflect a bit on the experience of liveblogging directly from the conference. I have a feeling this is going to be a lengthy...

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Youth, Social Networks, and the New “Public” Space (danah boyd at Berkman)

For a long time (well, since roughly 6/26) this Berkman Video of danah boyd has sat in my “to watch” queue. I finally got time to watch it on the train on the way to New York last week. It was well...

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I feel like a star

Kyle Flaherty posted a video compiled largely during the Social Media Breakfast IV earlier this week in Boston: Solving the Challenges of 2008. It includes yours truly (0:42 through about 1:20)...

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Where am I? What day is it?

My Cingular Blackjack (Samsung i607) seems determined to keep me in the dark. First, it never works with the Google Maps “My Location” feature. Here’s all I get: On top of that, I’m still getting the...

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Think Globally, Meet Locally

It’s been a busy week in the Boston area for me, with lots of “meat space” (not my favorite description, as a vegan) or “real world” (not my favorite description as a net citizen) meetings to go with...

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Drupalcon Boston 2008

Looking forward to the upcoming Drupalcon: Drupalcon Boston 2008 takes place from March 3, 2008 to March 6, 2008 at the Boston Convention and Expo Center. There will also be a Drupal Code Sprint on...

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Pecha Kucha Boston 4

Pecha Kucha Boston 4 poster Originally uploaded by brettstil Pecha Kuch is coming up on April 10th, 8pm, at Harvard Graduate School for Design. I’m hoping to make it over there after Our World...

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BarCamp Boston 3

Shimon Rura’s email today reminded me that BarCamp Boston is fast approaching again. Third week in May we should easily avoid the snowstorm which put something of a crimp in BarCamp Boston 2. In case...

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Hiring in a 2.0 World (smb7)

Boston Social Media Breakfast 7 was this past Thursday, on the topic of Hiring and Getting Hired in a 2.0 world. Presenting were: Stever Robbins, consultant/executive coach and host of the Get-It-Done...

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Enterprise 2.0 Conference Pass

I don’t normally cross-promote heavily across the multiple places I blog, but this one seemed worthwhile. From my blog at Optaros.com: “Enterprise 2.0 Free Conference Pass” At the upcoming Enterprise...

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BarCamp Boston 3 Presentation (WordPress to Facebook and Back)

I presented yesterday at BarCamp Boston 3 on the topic of WPBook, the WordPress plugin for pulling blog posts into Facebook and letting people comment on them with their Facebook identities. Here’s the...

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Ignite Boston 3

Update: 14 of the presentation slide decks are available at slideshare. Last night was the third Ignite Boston, at Tommy Doyle’s in Harvard Square. Ignite is an O’Reilly Media sponsored series of...

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Enterprise 2.0 Conference – Social Bookmarking and Tagging

One of the sessions I attended at the Enterprise 2.0 conference yesterday here in Boston was Thomas Vander Wal (the man who coined the term “folksonomy”) talking about how to manage the flood of...

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Enterprise 2.0: Sun’s Project SocialSite

One of the entries in the launchpad competition today was Sun Microsystem’s Project SocialSite. It’s part of the larger Glassfish project, and uses Apache Shindig as an OpenSocial container – they...

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Boston IxDA Nano Conference Thursday 6/26/08

(via Boston IxDA) The Boston chapter of the Interaction Design Association is hosting a night of short talks – I imagine something like Pecha Kucha or Ignite! – this Thursday (June 26th, 2008) 6pm-9pm...

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Open Source Content Management Panel at Gilbane Boston

Next week, I’ll be moderating a panel on Open Source Content Management at the fifth annual Gilbane Boston Conference – “Where Content Management Meets Social Media.” It’s Thursday, December 4th, from...

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BarCamp Boston 4

One of my favorite new trends of the last couple of years is the unconference movement and the *Camps, associated originally with BarCamp (an alternative to the invite only, highly exclusive FooCamp...

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Future of Media, Video WTF

Two quick notes on media: 1. Paul Gillin: “The Future of Media is: Small, Aggregated, Inclusive, Community-driven, Conversational, Fast, Flexible, Experimental.” 2. New from the PCF: Video WTF? First,...

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WordCamp NYC, WordCamp Boston

I’m very happy to note I will be attending, volunteering at, and speaking at WordCamp NYC, coming up in November 14th and 15th. My talk is one of the Saturday Sessions in the Beginning Developer track....

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WordCamp NYC, WPBook, WordCamp Boston

Here’s the slides from my presentation this morning at WordCamp NYC. It was in the “beginning developer” track so I tried to focus on the overall structure of how the plugin does what it does and the...

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Boston 140 Characters Conference succeeds despite coffee, wifi, power fail

The Fail Whale in Legos - Photo by Bjarne Panduro Tveskov - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tveskov/3387394098/ The 140 Characters Conference in Boston yesterday started off with three strikes against it,...

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Podcamp Boston This Weekend

Podcamp Boston (6) is this weekend (Sept. 24th and 25th) at the Microsoft NERD center. Here’s the schedule (which they haven’t yet published except as a google doc): My friend Dave Wieneke will be...

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Podcamp Boston 6

Made it in Saturday for the opening of Podcamp Boston 6. (After a few working weekends in a row, I couldn’t do two full days so I just came in for Saturday morning). While I was only able to catch...

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WordCamp Boston 2012

WordCamp Boston 2012 is coming up quickly: July 13th-15th, at the Boston University George Sherman Union (same venue as 2011). I’ll be speaking again, this time on the topic of “Why the #@*$!% isn’t...

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WordCamp Boston 2012, Design for Drupal 4

This weekend Boston lives up to its reputation as a strong city for open source CMS activities, with both WordCamp Boston 2012 and Design for Drupal 4 in the same weekend. WordCamp will be at the...

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The Fox, the Hedgehog, and Responsive Web Design

Just before the holidays, I saw Tamsen Webster (@tamadear) speak at Creative Mornings Boston on the theme of Education. She anchored the discussion on the distinction between the fox and the hedgehog....

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