Tom Purves – Product Management, Fintech & AI

Enterprise 2.0 – How Collaborative Technologies in the Enterprise are Changing Everything

EnterpriseCamp is back! This time with a day-long event for Toronto Tech Week. The big news is, I happy to announce we’ve teamed up with Anthony Williams of Wikinomics fame and the team at Don Tapscott’s New Paradigm. The plan is to bring together the worlds of the leading minds from the technology and consulting side of Enterprise2.0 with business leaders (CxO’s, executives and IT/HR professionals) to bring a practical and real-world perspective to these ideas.

The event will feature a combination of structured and unstructured conference format. There will be a breakfast keynote panel followed by a day of openly-structured workshop sessions.

For a venue we have a room booked at Metro Toronto Convention, which will be one of the main hubs of Activities during the week.

Draft Agenda

Part 1: Breakfast panel with keynotes Anthony Williams and a second keynote TBA. 7:30am to 9:30am

Part 2: “2.0ing the hell out of you business model”: Collaborative participant-led solution workshops for implementing Enterprise 2.0 in the workplace 10:00 am to 4:00pm

(participants will be able to register for Parts 1, 2 or both).

But there’s still work to be done. More details to follow once we get the registration site up.

Volunteers: We’re still recruiting volunteers, we’ll need some help the day of as well as pre-even organization and… we need a gardener to take credit for setting us up a registration site. Any takers?

Sponsors: We’re accepting a limited number of equal Sponsors with each sponsorship capped at $1000. These slots will go fast so please contact me tom [at] firestoker.com for details.

Mark your calendars for May 29th. Meanwhile, more details to come.

# The ever sagacious Euan Semple brings us some wonderful quotes this morning, including this Druker gem: “In a knowledge economy there are no such things as conscripts – there are only volunteers. The trouble is we have trained our managers to manage conscripts”. File under E20 and The New Human Enterprise.

# The internets are all ‘atwitter’ about SXSW this week. The ever-brilliant Michele Perras, our top and clearly best looking (sorry Eli) TorCubReporter on the scene a brings us coverage: Why we should ignore users, Kathy Sierra – Nuggets of *Joy*, and Writing, better. I wish I could have made it to Austin too.

What is it with people dumping their bookmark feeds into their rss? Sure there’s a lot of good theoretical reasons to have social bookmarks, and rss feeds thereof. Some people even really like Del.icio.us. Similarly, one of the holy Grail’s of enterprise social media is to feed off of a whole network’s bookmarks (and especially the tags) as a way to amass and track a sort of “collective intelligence” of the swarm. but…

I know you think your browser history is thrilling and everything but, why, why in your main blog feed? If these links aren’t even worth enough of your time to craft a simple blog post to explain why they’re important, and if you’re not flagging these specifically for me, why then am I being subjected to these bookmarks?*

It’s just link barf people. please stop?

Or, if you feel you must social bookmark, just have the courtesy to make it a separate feed (and see how many readers you get).

*worst offenders are those who just dump in links and tags with no commentary whatsoever. If you’re one who actually makes use of the description field to add some brief editorial then I let you off with a milder scolding. If there was such a thing, a properly designed human-readable bookmark feed would include only the bookmarker’s description of the link, and not display the URL the tags, title and other stuff that’s just noise.