The Enterprise 2.0 Breakfast comes to Melbourne
Thanks to everyone who joined us for our Enterprise 2.0 meet up this morning, here in Sydney. One of the main themes in the conversation this morning was discussing our own experiences of the different organisational factors - such as internal politics, perceptions of productivity in the workplace, information security concerns and generational change - that get in the way of effectively introducing enterprise social computing.
Unfortunately, due a sporting injury, Alex wasn't was able to make it this time but hopefully he'll be recovered for our next meet up. If you couldn't make today either but would like to be invited to future meet ups, please get in touch with your twitter or email details so I can 'ping' you when we schedule our next event.Comments [2]
I'm here at GovHack today/tonight and will be adding the odd photo during the afternoon and tonight. If you are here too, come find me and say hello! I'd love to chat about Gov 2.0.
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... and very appropriate for an open house at Atlassian tonight. A great oppourtunity to network with the Atlassian crew, other Atlassian partners, clients and also @trib :-)
We also heard our Webinar is attracting lots of interest which is great to hear!
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SI Camp Australia came to Wollongong tonight - the group photo above includes three Wollongong based 'techos' James Purser and Andrew Thornberry and David Holloway (aka Metaverse Journal).
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Thanks to Tony Hollingsworth, our unorganised photographer for Us Now Sydney. There are a few more taken by me too.
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Based on the Twitter feedback at least, everyone enjoyed watching the Us Now movie and the panel discussion tonight at Us Now Sydney.
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On 6 July 2009, participants at Reboot Britain (www.rebootbritain.com) were invited to make their own idea of what would help to reboot Britain, in Lego.
Why? The idea is that building with the hands prompts different ways of thinking ... ideas emerge ... the process gives a voice to the regular delegates at this grand event with big-name speakers ... and everyone is drawn to view each others' interesting, clever, pretty models.
Make yourself a cup of tea and view the slideshow.
David Gauntlett, University of Westminster - www.makingisconnecting.org
I watched some of Reboot Britain's live feed last night... but as that and even the Twitter stream fade, this hands on social media is an interesting memory from the event. However, to the point above about giving 'regular' delegates a voice, Julian Dobson comments in his blog that all this participatory media (Lego or otherwise) means "bog-all out there in Britain's Twitterless wastes". I have some sympathy for his point of view, but this issue of cathedral and bazaar is not a new one. Technology is enabling more people to see inside the cathedral at least, but the onus is still on those where ever they participated to go out, share and create their own bazaars where they are really needed. Its also very easy to say that social media doesn't have any impact on real people or real issues if you haven't actually given it a try - as I imagine some people would say about the Lego, why would I want to represent my ideas in little plastic building blocks? Because if it comes to nothing, it hasn't cost you anything either.
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I was really, really disappointed that I couldn't make it to BarCampSydney#5, even more so after reading Kate's write up about the vibe of the day. She included a few photos and this is my favourite as it describes the BarCamp ethos so well, "open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants". Of course I was supposed to be there to rally the post #publicsphere discussion about Government 2.0, but luckily Rob Manson (who as far as I know, I've never met in person?) stepped in to help herd the cats after I put in a call for help. But then that's BarCamp, right?
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