Tom Purves – Product Management, Fintech & AI

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

Paul is calling Dabble “the first truly ‘Enterprise 2.0’ company”

The first you say? heh, it certainly won’t be the last…

In the past few months, I’ve really come around on this whole Web2.0 idea. Thus far, the hype has all surrounded the explosion of consumer apps in Web2.0 and has moved on to the modern fads of web2.0 and blogging for marketing. Many of these ideas are interesting, some now indispensable, others entirely dubious while all, as I see it, really just just foreplay.

It’s becoming evermore clear that the real and enormous potential for web 2.0 (aka social media) is in enterprise. From basic internal encyclo(wiki)pedias to internal blogging, communication and collaboration tools there is enormous opportunity to connect and empower the latent human capital within any organization. And watch for me to be posting more on this subject in the coming weeks.

Yes, it’s taken a long while, but were finally getting close to showing what the world wide web was really meant to do in the beginning. Watch for huge productivity gains ahead. Just don’t forget to get on board. And meanwhile of course, e-mail me anytime if you’d like to chat about any of these ideas further.

The Word is out, DabbleDB has gotten funding. Ventures West was the firm savvy enough to snap this deal up. I had the chance to see these guys demo their stuff at DemoCamp a few months back and what they’re doing is some spectacular bits of technology. Imagine all of those non-math things you bastardized Excel to do like keep lists of schedules, contacts or semi-organized action logs and so forth. Dabbledb takes all your data and you can play with it through just-like and Excel interface while in the background it magically sorts, cross-links and organizes everything into a database without you the user having to know how the hell it’s doing it. And then, like google spreadsheets, it’s web-based so you can access and collaborate on the data without the hell of version tracking and e-mailing around document versions and who’s got the latest version and so forth.

Om broke the story and Paul Kedrosky of ventures West adds a few clarifying points here.