Tom Purves – Product Management, Fintech & AI

+Those paying attention to the sidebar may have noticed a few things lately. By request I’ve added a subscribe by e-mail feature for those who wish to receive my updates by timely e-mail. Powered by some guys name FeedBlitz. And no neither I nor them will do anything nefarious with your e-mail. Personally I’d argue you’d all be better off just getting on the bloglines wagon for your substitutions, but apparently, some people are still hooked on e-mail even in this day and age.

+I’m also playing with a location gadget on the sidebar inspired by plazes. Plazes is the web2.0 firm that lets you do handy things like… automagically geotag your eggs benedict. For anyone curious it’ll help you follow a track what city/country I’m in at the moment. But not without a little manual hacking of the XML source feed. Colleague Jevon calls this “early adopter behaviour”.

+Hmmm, plazes, feedblitz. In web2.0 naming conventions, it appears “z” is the new “r”. Can’t wait for someone to use both, maybe throw in a leading “i” as well? Sigh, seems that in a few years the only fresh domains still freely available could well be entirely spelled in some bastardized h4x0r argot.

+If you’re schedules not full yet this week, remember tonight is DemoCamp #7 (wow) and this friday CaseCamp 2.1 (yay!).

+As for an update on the Enterprise2.0 meetup last week. It was good! and there’s so much more to talk about so we’ll be doing another, larger event later in July (I’m angling for the week of the 17th)

+Further to my intermitent and arguably quixotic quest to champion the med/longtail of quality content… Saw these were playing recently, best two films I’ve seen in years. both intense, laser-smart and at moments deadpan yet wildly hillarious (if that’s how you like them, run don’t walk)
* Brick – trailer
* [Sympathy for] Lady vengance – trailer

+And lastly just back from a downing some refreshing barium milkshakes for breakfast this morning. extra large, slight banana-ish flavour with a little radiation on the side. mmm. Does Web2.0 actually give you ulcers? We shall see. (heart attacks though, are certainly a known hazard)

Thanks for Brent for passing this on to me yesterday. Mathew Ingram‘s piece in the globe and mail yesterday on Enterprise 2.0:

>The buzz around Web 2.0 up to now has mainly been about things like blogs, “social networking” and swapping photos, but businesses are slowly climbing onto the bandwagon and new Web-based applications aimed directly at corporate users are making an appearance. Some are calling it “Enterprise 2.0.” …

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Sorry for short notice folks, but I know that some of the some the readers of this site may well be interested. A colleague Martin Cleaver is organizing a local pub meetup to learn and talk about Web2.0 in the enterprise. I thought I would help him out by extending out the invitation to the local blogosphere. As for the subject matter, Martin himself sums up the case compellingly:

>In place of rigid processes changed only by strategists in the company and consultants , organizations that embrace Web 2.0 can make descriptions of key processes available to anyone in the firm to comment on, update and evolve. This makes the whole of the firm more aware of what works and what is broken, and instead of processes being periodically reviewed when management can afford time, they can be reviewed on a continuous basis when the people closest to the problems see them and commit to making a difference in solution implementation. Culturally the mass-socialisation aspect (all ideas visible) creates a dialtone of being heard, allows detailed and insightful feedback, reveals interested parties and encourages energy to follow issues. […but…]

>…enterprises that embrace this new paradigm face a plethora of new issues. To participate demands competency in distributed leadership, technical implementation, and collaboration. To not participate surely means making the choice to be out-competed by those who do.

As this is short notice and our first meetup, I do expect a modest turnout but should the meetup be successful look for more events like this in the near future [leave a comment or drop me a message if you’d be interested!].

7:00 pm, Duke of York Pub, Toronto

Details can be found here