Presentation on "Business Aspects of Social Software and Collaboration" from ICE / CIPS Edmonton conference now posted

November 12 2006

Last week, I delivered a presentation entitled "Business Aspects of Social Software and Collaboration" at the ICE Conference run by the CIPS in Edmonton.  I've posted the slides via SlideShare.



The presentation was intended to educate an audience overall on how collaboration and social software can apply to the business world, such as the CEO blogging instead of e-mailing, a wiki to manage a project, and real-time communications merge with other tools to form real-time business.  I also talked about some of the notions around the future direction of Notes, most notably situational and composite applications.

The hardest part of this presentation for me was removing the "sales pitch" and making this more of an academic discussion...I used IBM as an example and a case study but steered clear of making it a Lotus product pitch.  Hopefully the CIPS attendees found that valuable -- I saw a lot of heads nodding and had a few very good conversations after the presentation.  And while I wasn't able to get to the West Ed Mall per Bob B's suggestion, I was at its sister Mall of America in Minneapolis today, so we'll call that "close enough".

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  1. 1  Charles Robinson http://cubert-codepoet.blogspot.com | 11/13/2006 12:19:19 AM

    Thanks for sharing this. Starting at slide 16, what are you calling "services"?

    I hate to sound like all I do is complain, but the screenshots are unreadable. Maybe they got garbled in the translation to Slideshare.

  1. 2  Jonathan Boutelle http://www.jonathanboutelle.com | 11/13/2006 4:26:12 AM

    Loved this presentation!

    RE: screenshots. Yes, they aren't readable. We have to do compression of everything in order to make it stream over the web: a 20-meg ppt is fine, a 20-meg slideshow would make people cry!

    The side-effect of this is that images that have text inside them (like screenshots of user interfaces) often look crappy.

    We're working on it!

    -Jon Boutelle (CTO, Slideshare)

  1. 3  Bruce Elgort http://www.TakingNotesPodcast.com | 11/13/2006 7:44:44 AM

    It's great to see Ben Poole's DominoWiki application in there. Thanks for sharing Mr. B.

  1. 4  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 11/13/2006 10:28:26 AM

    @1 "services" = web services, components exposed as services.

  1. 5  Charles Robinson http://cubert-codepoet.blogspot.com | 11/13/2006 2:31:43 PM

    Thanks for clarifying that, I really didn't know what you were considering a service. Given all the IBM buzz about SOA lately I should have figured it was web services. This is good information and very helpful. :)

  1. 6  Spam removed | 11/13/2006 2:50:56 PM

    Well that's a new one -- Linkedin spam. Never saw that before. The same person left comments on my photo album as well, just pointing to his linkedin profile. Sigh.

  1. 7  Ian Irving http://www.FalsePositives.com | 11/13/2006 6:59:07 PM

    Great Presentation.

    Would it be possible to get a Power Point version of this? I would love to forward it to a client and see if I can get the juices flowing, and they would be more receptive to a PPT than a web slide show (or OPD file).

  1. 8  Bill Geimer  | 11/13/2006 8:00:41 PM

    Ed, I looked through your slides this morning. Tonight, when I got the mail and opened the Dec. Scientific American (okay, all groan geek here) and read the SA Perspective column by the editors, I thought I was having deja vu (all over again.) Their article on the impact of Wikis, social bookmarking and theri impact on the media, typified by background on the article about Selam's scull had a lot in common with your slides.

  1. 9  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 11/13/2006 8:27:55 PM

    @7 please send me mail @ work (ed_brill at us.ibm.com )...