Hi Everybody - I have moved this blog over to my own site. I also changed over to start using the Wordpress software. Here is the new site, www.swordplay.tv/everybodywiki, and the RSS feed.
Thanks
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Saturday, June 23, 2007
The new Chief: CCO, The Chief Collaboration Officer
CCO - Chief Collaboration Officer
Get used to it. This acronym will be haunting our lives for the next 20 years.
Web 2.0 will bring about many changes in corporations. One of which will be a reshuffling of management. Most of this will take place at the low and mid management levels, but their is always room for one more Chief at the top.
A colleague and I recently discussed the value of establishing a CCO. Will it be a hindrance to innovation and growth? Or, an enabler that provides top-level support?
I think that a CCO will be an enabler who radically changes the landscape of the corporate environment. The transition will not be smooth, though, many will fail and a few will succeed. Those who succeed will be copied incessantly until the role of CCO is fleshed out, understood, and books are written about it (The 7 habits of highly effective CCO's...).
In the end, the CCO will be here to stay.
P.S. - Those CCO's who succeed will be the ones who use the tools at home. See you on myspace!
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
My Community
Many thanks to Stowe Boyd, Lars Trieloff and Emily Chang for this post.
Inspiration strikes in the weirdest places and for the weirdest reasons....I'm at an Enterprise 2.0 conference (E2.0) talking about the development of Web 2.0 and what happens? I get inspired to start an art blog. Who knew...
But thanks to the power of laptops (which I can't stress enough: "everyone needs a laptop"), networking, and the intertron, inspiration has come. Let me tell you how this happened and maybe give you a little insight into the world of Web 2.0.
On day one of the conference I had lunch with Lars and he introduced me to Roller. A blog software that can host multiple blogs. One of my holy grails for blogging. Allowing you to build a community around your blogs and avoid the mass crowds on the popular sites. I hope to eventually use this to unite my multiple blogs together.
Next, I saw a presentation at E2.0 called "Social = Me First" by Stowe. It was a really good presentation that covers the philosophy of this movement, but I was really interested in something else. I wanted to know what is next? (blogs and wikis are already years old after all). Stowe's answer was "flow app's". I delved into them a little bit and it appears that he is right. (sorry, but explaining more would only cloud up this little narrative and I haven't gotten my brain around in yet, so click the link for more).
Learning about flow app's led me to Emily's site. She has created a myriad of sites, including ones for reviews of web 2.0 technology, a personal blog, an art blog, and a flickr profile. Bang, that is where inspiration struck. I am so used to single sites like MySpace, where you have one huge page for all of your interests. Emily has taken that a step further establishing multiple sites where each one utilizes different aspects of the web and social dynamics. For example, her flickr account is just for her pictures and other pictophiles, and then on her artcodes blog she hosts individual photos that express some artistic interest.
It is this online portfolio or personal ecosystem that I like. In fact, what struck gold with me is the way that I can take previously personal and private interests and get them published. I can carve out my own home on the web, except instead of it being a homepage it is now a diverse ecosystem where my thoughts and interests can interact with millions of other folks worldwide.
Getting to those millions is the next step...maybe I will start with just bugging my girlfriend to visit them for now....
For those of you new to the web 2.0 world, these tools are easily available, mostly free, and easy to use. If you are interested here are some good ones: flickr, picasa, blogger, vox, 1& 1.
Inspiration strikes in the weirdest places and for the weirdest reasons....I'm at an Enterprise 2.0 conference (E2.0) talking about the development of Web 2.0 and what happens? I get inspired to start an art blog. Who knew...
But thanks to the power of laptops (which I can't stress enough: "everyone needs a laptop"), networking, and the intertron, inspiration has come. Let me tell you how this happened and maybe give you a little insight into the world of Web 2.0.
On day one of the conference I had lunch with Lars and he introduced me to Roller. A blog software that can host multiple blogs. One of my holy grails for blogging. Allowing you to build a community around your blogs and avoid the mass crowds on the popular sites. I hope to eventually use this to unite my multiple blogs together.
Next, I saw a presentation at E2.0 called "Social = Me First" by Stowe. It was a really good presentation that covers the philosophy of this movement, but I was really interested in something else. I wanted to know what is next? (blogs and wikis are already years old after all). Stowe's answer was "flow app's". I delved into them a little bit and it appears that he is right. (sorry, but explaining more would only cloud up this little narrative and I haven't gotten my brain around in yet, so click the link for more).
Learning about flow app's led me to Emily's site. She has created a myriad of sites, including ones for reviews of web 2.0 technology, a personal blog, an art blog, and a flickr profile. Bang, that is where inspiration struck. I am so used to single sites like MySpace, where you have one huge page for all of your interests. Emily has taken that a step further establishing multiple sites where each one utilizes different aspects of the web and social dynamics. For example, her flickr account is just for her pictures and other pictophiles, and then on her artcodes blog she hosts individual photos that express some artistic interest.
It is this online portfolio or personal ecosystem that I like. In fact, what struck gold with me is the way that I can take previously personal and private interests and get them published. I can carve out my own home on the web, except instead of it being a homepage it is now a diverse ecosystem where my thoughts and interests can interact with millions of other folks worldwide.
Getting to those millions is the next step...maybe I will start with just bugging my girlfriend to visit them for now....
For those of you new to the web 2.0 world, these tools are easily available, mostly free, and easy to use. If you are interested here are some good ones: flickr, picasa, blogger, vox, 1& 1.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Enterprise 2.0 Conference - Boston
Well...here I am sitting in a grungy boston-style hostel, getting all excited for the Enterprise 2.0 conference. With sessions like the ones listed below, I have high hopes.
Anyway, some other thoughts about the conference...I am worried that the conference planners will focus too much on introducing these tools to a fresh audience, rather than delving into some of the growth and middle to post maturity questions that arise when implementing Ent 2.0 tools. We'll see...the track I am interested in attending Social Tools for the Enterprise.
Finally, let me send off with a mention to my new reading interest:
The book was recommended to me by a colleague, one of those "you need to read this right now" statements. You know where the conversation gets very serious and you take it like gospel. Well I picked it up and it is a compelling read so far. In fact, I can't help but think that Web 2.0 is a natural progression to the singularity. I mean the information that is coming out of wikipedia, digg, delicious, the blogosphere is putting so much information and knowledge at our fingertips. The next logical step is to design software to cogitate it all.
So far that is what the book is about and especially how that software will eventually be able to "cogitate" it 100 times better than our brains can. Then the singularity has come and past and robots are officially here...Roy (the author) is predicting this to happen by 2050. I think Web 2.0 will make that date come sooner. A recommended read definitely.
Thanks for the read and happy wiki days to you.
Steve
- Social = me first
- Collective Intelligence: Monkeys or Memes?
- Social Project Management: Everything Big Is Small Again
- Leveraging Your Community as a Competitive Weapon
- What exactly is Enterprise 2.0?
- What tools does it utilize?
- Which companies are leading this innovation?
- How much of this is open and transparent to the public (i.e. will the rest of us benefit from it)?
- Philosophical - what is this doing to the corporate structure?
Anyway, some other thoughts about the conference...I am worried that the conference planners will focus too much on introducing these tools to a fresh audience, rather than delving into some of the growth and middle to post maturity questions that arise when implementing Ent 2.0 tools. We'll see...the track I am interested in attending Social Tools for the Enterprise.
Finally, let me send off with a mention to my new reading interest:
The book was recommended to me by a colleague, one of those "you need to read this right now" statements. You know where the conversation gets very serious and you take it like gospel. Well I picked it up and it is a compelling read so far. In fact, I can't help but think that Web 2.0 is a natural progression to the singularity. I mean the information that is coming out of wikipedia, digg, delicious, the blogosphere is putting so much information and knowledge at our fingertips. The next logical step is to design software to cogitate it all.
So far that is what the book is about and especially how that software will eventually be able to "cogitate" it 100 times better than our brains can. Then the singularity has come and past and robots are officially here...Roy (the author) is predicting this to happen by 2050. I think Web 2.0 will make that date come sooner. A recommended read definitely.
Thanks for the read and happy wiki days to you.
Steve
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