Tom Purves – Product Management, Fintech & AI

TorCamp is experimenting collectively with new channels of real-time (chat) collaboration while simultaneously trying to conduct business and plan future events and advocacy with city politics etc.

Here I am in 3 skype conversations, 2 gtalk, a few msn, gmail and a campfire conversation with about 40 people.

The exact same 40 people mind you.

So far this experiment is somewhere between a brilliant insight into the new collaboration — or a complete disaster. staying tuned.

see also Albert’s take on the same conversation: The “Always-On” Unconference & Ad-Hoc Virtual Communities

My business parter partner and all-around multi-talented guy, Jevon MacDonald has written a great and expansive report on the state of 2.0 in the Enterprise, including case studies and how you can start 2.0’ing the hell out of your organization today. It’s a great read, flip over to Jevon’s Blog (socialwrite.com) to download a copy of the pdf and let us know your feedback. This report is released under creative commons license.

Link: How can Enterprise 2.0 work right now?

for further reading: see also my earlier intro to Enterprise2.0 deck on slideshare

Left to right Gordon Nixon, CEO Royal Bank, Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman business school, and Bob Rae former Premier and now prominent Liberal.

The most remarkable thing about this event was almost none of the usual geek species in attendance – aside from a certain rabble of actual 2.0-ster troublemakers (who I accidentally invited to) crash the party.

Wikinomics has hit New York Times bestseller list, is flying off the “shelves” at Amazon, and looks to be a breakthrough hit both for all things Web/Enterprise2.0 and for Canadian business publishing. Don and Anthony (and all those behind them a paradigm) have put together a great book. Nothing overly groundbreaking for those already in the know but Tapscott and co. have a wonderful way of breaking down these big and important concepts into a format palatable to the mainstream – and with examples clear enough even a CEO could get it 😉

And plenty were in attendance.

Web 2.0 has finally arrived to the business mainstream my friends. As I was saying to those around me, this is the best advertising we could be getting. I hope you’re ready for the avalanche.

[ps. want a sneak peak a the next generation of mass collaboration for enterprise? sign up for the Firestoker mailing list. coming soon. ]

More coverage by Will Pate: wikinomics-book-launch/, Mark Kuzinicki: Wikinomics, Dave Crow: Wikinomics – A spark of openness

Will also took the best pictures.