Via a combination of Twitter and my Lotus Connections Installation guide, I’ve been invited to join a conversation with IBM, Handly Cameron and Mitch Cohen on how to improve the Lotus Connections Infocenter. If you would like me to pass on any feedback to IBM, or highlight any specific issues, please leave a comment, email me (jonmell at me.com), or let me know via Twitter.
Am off on holiday for a week so no posts for a while. See you when I get back!
After just over a year of working at Trovus – I am excited (and somewhat sad!) to be able to say publically that I am moving to Headshift to join their Enterprise Practice. As some of you know, Trovus has changed a lot (as any startup does) over the last year and we have moved toward a product geared around web analytics telling you who has visted your website, as opposed to Web 2.0 / Enterprise 2.0 consultancy.
It’s been great fun working with Trovus, developing the Trovus Revelations product, repositioning the company around a product and launching the new website, but my interests lie firmly in the Enterprise 2.0 / social software world, rather than web analytics. This is exactly what Headshift focus on, so I’m really excited to be joining their team.
So I’ll be starting at Headshift on the 15th September after a holiday in Edinburgh (which will include Will Critchlow‘s wedding!)
It’s been great fun at Trovus, and I wish Caspar and Ed all the best – they have a great product and a great future ahead of them!
Had a great chance to discuss using Web 2.0 for fundraising with William Hoyle and Simon Fairway of Charity Technology Trust, Simon Berry of RuralNet and Danny Anthrobus of South Yorkshire Funding Advisory Board. You can see a video summary of the discussion here.
Also – I strongly recommend you check out Simon Berry’s ColaLife project. It’s an inspiring campaign to get Coca Cola to use their distribution network to provide rehydration salts to people that need them the most.
Was talking to a friend at the weekend who works for one of the big four as a tax advisor. Luckily for her, she was going on a business trip to the Bahamas, which would span over the weekend. Problem was, her team was coming back on the Friday and she would be stuck with the Bahaman team, who she didn’t know. Asking what they were doing at the weekend could be problematic as they might already have plans. Here is a great example of where Enterprise 2.0 could help with more productive meetings with people in a large company who you don’t know. If there was a corporate Facebook-style application, my friend could get to know her colleagues before she flew out there, so that social interaction would be a lot easier, which would lead to a more productive working relationship, and a much more productive trip.
I experienced this first hand when I went out to Varese – having interacted with Stewart, Luis and Emanuele ahead of time on Twitter and Skype, made it much easier to ‘break the ice’ and make more productive use of our limited time together.
Social software, both in the enterprise and in consumer world, is not about virtual relationships with people you never meet. It’s about reducing the friction in those relationships where you only see each other infrequently – keeping a social connection which would otherwise fade over time, meaning that you feel less inhibited to call on someone who might be able to help you, and the time you do spend physically together is more productive.
