Tom Purves – Product Management, Fintech & AI

On 7/23/06, Eli Singer < *** @primus.ca> wrote:
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> Hey Thomas, people were really buzzing at my office about Enterprise 2.0
> (Brent went, did you meet him?)
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> Anyways, I’m super curious about how it went. Drop me a line or give me a
> call. Haven’t seen anything on your blog…
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> Cheers!
> ES
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> Eli Singer | m: 416.xxx.2322 | http://www.singer.to

Enterprise 2.0 went great! thanks for asking. Only just now got to do a quick blog post after being tied up all weekend. It’s an idea whose time has definitely come. there’s almost no big business out there (or even small business for that matter) that couldn’t do with better connected employees. and the crowd there really seemed to get that.
The ongoing question though is still the challenge and technique of making the leap from the promise of it to the actualization… and the capturing of value. Two of really open questions left from this evening included how does one quantify the value created? and what are the minimum set of tools required to realize benefits? Will it ultimately be about providing an integrated platform of social media tools ? or can enterprises get away with mixing and matching?

There’s also a debate about the trade offs (how much productivity do I gain versus lose in taking time to read and author internal postings/blogs/chats etc.) an interesting replied raised by DebHartmann (the agile consultant) about the idea of businesses learning to let go of efficiency and embracing effectiveness.

in any case, it’s exciting times and we’re just at the cusp of it. The next step is to start taking the conversation to the next higher level and engaging more of the business and academic audience. stay tuned, and let me know when the next casecamp is coming up!

your friend,
tom.

Thanks to all who came out to Enterprise 2.0 on thursday. we were expecting about 20, but by the end of the evening we had just over 30 people. Thanks also to our three excellent speakers:

1. Bryce Johnson led a discussion on “getting real on the enterprise” covering development practices, how corporate intranets are changing and the role of sharepoint and Office 2007 fit into the Enterprise 2.0 ecosystem.

2. Sacha Choa talked about how social media transformed her experience as a graduate researcher and employee of IBM. The money quote of the evening from Sacha “social media transformed my perspective of IBM from cold and overwhelming organization to and organization full of individual people and friends”.

3. Martin Cleaver talked about the strategic implications of Enterprise2.0 from both the vendor and the client perspective and how the shift from “top-down control” systems to “bottom-up participative” creating both opportunities (and a few new problems) for vendors and vendee’s alike.

All three presentations yielded a great deal of conversation and discussion (lasting ultimately until almost last call at the bar, heh). it was great to see the audience jumping in and getting involved in the conversation.

By popular demand, we’re looking for to doing another event sometime after the summer. Watch this space and the barcamp homepage for news.

Good news everyone! and thanks to those who’ve been pestering me to get a new one up. Here it is, my summer walking tour of all that’s cool as I’ve discovered in Indie rock this season (a.k.a. The Best Damn Music You Won’t Hear on the Radio). But it’s also a little autobiographical, these are the tracks that have had the biggest impact on me – and for better or worse I can’t stop playing.

If you’re subscribed already, just go in to Itunes and click update. Or if you’re not subscribed yet (what the heck’s wrong with you?!) just follow the instructions:

Link to the podcast (in itunes click Advanced–>”subscribe to podcast” then paste in this url): https://www.thomaspurves.com/music/feed.xml

You can click the song name to download the individual mp3 or if you’re interested in actually supporting the artist, I’ve included links to where you can buy them digitally. (this season, the score is: itunes 10, emusic 9)

Artist	Song	Time	Available
Shearwater	Seventy Four Seventy Five	0:00
Sufjan Stevens	Springfield	3:40
The Lovely Feathers	Pope John Paul	7:35
Tokyo Police Club	Nature of the Experiment	11:25
Sunset Rubdown	Us Once in between	13:27
Camera Obscura	Lloyd, I’m ready to be heartbroken	17:40
Be Your Own Pet	Adventure	22:15
Tapes ‘n Tapes	Insistor	21:27
Nomo	Nu Tones	28:24
Sound Team	Movie Monster	32:03
Tuning	Woodcat	36:15
Nano	A suivre	39:10
Beirut	Mount Wroclai	43:49
El Perro Del Mar	I can’t talk about it	47:00
Shearwater	Johnny Viola	49:50

Or if you’d rather go low-tech download the mix as one big mp3 file and burn it to CD or something. And, by popular demand, all these tracks available as one big-ass zip file.

enjoy!

and if you missed the spring edition… it’s here

If you’re not already joined, link for 25 free Emusic tracks (in sweet drm-free 192bit mp3 format): link