BlogWalk Chicago this weekend
BlogWalk Chicago is happening this Saturday (22nd Jan 2005). The furthest-away visitor, Lilia Efimova, is already here and will be visiting with Denham and some others in Indiana during the week. Given the weather forecast, our "walk" will likely be in a local museum. There are still spaces available for BlogWalk. If you are in or can get to Chicago for the day, please contact me.
The topic for the discussion is "social software in corporate/organizational settings." This covers a lot of territory, and the attendees range from librarian(s) to consultants to researchers to technologists. For me, I am interested in how internal communities can benefit and extend their capabilities with the social software tools that are available today. Are blogs and wikis significantly different from SharePoint, eRooms, discussion forums, bulletin boards and other "big" tools for communities? Of course, the question of how to make it happen is important too, particularly as I begin to work with clients who are interested in building better communication mechanisms.
This topic is partially a revisit of the BlogWalk 4, though I am sure we will come up with different ideas because we are different people and a lot has been said about this topic in the past six months. I recap BlogWalk 4 comments here, based on Suw Charman's excellent summary:
We ended up with 11 different groupings which reflect the core issues brought up by the day's conversations:
- Emotional feedback
- The influence of context on groups & individuals
- Value and productivity
- Groupthink
- Risk and loathing in the corporate blogosphere
- Ethos
- Audience and expectations
- Micro/macro-benefits and potential outcomes
- Gradients vs. Boundaries
- Filtering, aggregation and metadata
- Futurespeak
For the very curious, here are some other BlogWalk 4-related entries via September 2004 BlogWalk Topic Exchange: Lloyd Davis, David Wilcox (and here), Martin Roell, Paul Goodison, Julian Elve, Ian Glendinning, Bru, and Lilia. Where is the wiki of the notes?
Update: here are full notes on Headshift.
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In my experience, blogs and Sharepoint/eRoom (aka team workspaces) are very different. The most striking difference is the lack of context in team workspaces and the lack of document sharing in most blogs. If you could effectively put the two together, you'd really have something.
Jack, I guess you forgot to ping topicExchange... Could you add this post there?
Lloyd, I'm not that bad! Walked for 5 min in Chicago today and it was enough :)
The more I read about KM, the more I wonder if anyone knows what it really means. It seems to be a catch-all phrase for almost anything new in organizational affairs. If you know something, then it must be managed.... Read More
Well I'd ruled out extreme cold as a factor in slowing you down since that bitter night in Amsterdam. I guess Chicago really is that much colder!
Anyway I'm just envious of you guys - London is cold, wet and grey I'm onsite with a very dull client all day!
Jack,
all the notes of BlogWalk 4 in London can be found in the blogwalk wiki at:
http://blogwalk.interdependent.biz/wikka.php?wakka=BlogWalk4WindowWiki
Suw copied them from Headshift to there.
Oh and, just like Lloyd, I envy you guys. Next time perhaps.
best,
Ton
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Jack, you may find yourself forced to rethink just walking in a museum under extreme pressure from Lilia. I've had three lovely walks with her, but boy can she walk!!! I'd recommend agreeing some groundrules beforehand - perhaps "No crossing state borders!"
I'm really envious of you all - looking forward to seeing the blogs of the day.