Blogging Live From the Enterprise 2.0 Presence Conference

Analysis
Jan 18, 20084 mins

I’m speaking today at the Enterprise 2.0 conference. I’ll be updating with each speaker so you can be virtually here! Basically an outline format. I’ll edit after each speaker. I’ve never met any of the other presenters outside of seeing Phil at a few events and conversing with David online.

Note:

Stuart Henshall – Lifestreaming Presence

  • Focus on presence in everyday life.
  • Twitter as the epitome of social presence
    • Possible overuse – Do I really need to twitter going to the bathroom?All modern presence an evolution of the weblog
  • Various points of entry
    • blog
    • flickr
    • linked-in
    • twitter
    • skype
    • plaxo
    • “work” – (OCS)
    • wiki
  • Problems with Presence 1.0
    • Linked to the desktop
    • No integration
    • What do the “general” contexts mean?
    • No granularity to levels of access (addressed by Office Communicator)
  • Individual contributions (blogs, twitter, etc) as a microbrand. What does the microbrand bring to business
    • Scoble at Microsoft
    • Jobs at Apple
  • Stuart supports all replies to email to happen in a blog
    • I would say I’m not sure I agree with that statement, but I know I don’t. In a world of decreasing privacy, I cherish what little is available.
  • Stuart is like the cool dad next door

David Coleman – Collaboration 2.0

  • Author of Collaboration 2.0
  • Definitions
    • Context and definitions (see Tyson’s Blogpost on acronyms)
    • Detection – another person is there
    • Status – what are they doing?
    • Attention – willingness to interact
    • Identity – are they who they say they are. Trust is critical for credibility and collaboration
    • Presentity – see wikipedia and RFC 2778
  • What is a Conversation
    • Clear messages between all parties
    • Suspend disbelief
    • Hear others information and opinions
    • Verbal intercourse
    • Not necessarily in real-time
  • Holistic approach to Collaboration – People, Process and Technology
  • Does virtual world activity impact real world activity
  • As a side note, it seems David is a BIG IBM evangelist… interesting.
  • David’s a cool guy, he’s the Terrell Owens of the blogosphere.

Phil Wolff – Presence in the Social Stack

  • The social stack
    • ID
    • Sync (insite and intersite)
    • Actions (traverse multiple sites with singular/linked profile)
    • Search (on net and off net; gatekeeper)
    • Licensing
  • Why should we care?
  • Phil’s an interesting guy. we need to grab a beer sometime.

Kaliya Hamlin – Identity 2.0

  • Before she even starts her presentation Kaliya rubs me the wrong way.
    • She whines to me about using too much electricity on the projector and proceeds to use a dozen sheets of paper when she could just as easily use a less destructive resource
      • Just gave handouts… why not point people at a webpage and reach a larger, more diverse audience? Cool paperclips though
    • I think I have an aversion to people who present at a bleeding edge technology conference using old school paper on the wall. It’s perversely contrary to everything the conference is about.
  • Onto her presentation
    • Single identity for multiple communities
    • Orders of information
      • First order – one place one time
      • Second order – one place that refers to another
      • Third order – digital omnipresence
    • iNames are the manfestation of XRI
      • Linked to an iNumber
        • Never changes
        • Multiple inames can point to an inumber
    • SAML in the Enterprise
    • OpenID seems to make a lot of assumptions I’m not willing to make to become a ubiquitous solution.
  •  It’s been a bit difficult to follow her presentation. It’s very stream-of-consciousness

Verna Allee – Mobile workers and Value Networks

  • I got pulled away on client call for a bit and missed some of Verna’s presentation. I’ll blog on what I caught
  • Value Network analysis on mobile work
    • Employee perspective on aspects of off-site/mobile work.
    • tremendous wasted footprint in physical offices
    • review of first, second and third level interactions
    • Boeing case study on VNA
      • six-fold increase in productivity
  • Knowing roles and role interaction
  • Center for Advanced Value Network Analysis in the school of business at USC

Ross Mayfield – The Social Enterprise

  • Social computing versus personal computing
  • ramble, ramble, ramble…
  • should be called wiki 101… not terribly topical.

Phil Wolff