As you may have well read from my various twitterings during the course of yesterday, I am already here in Orlando attending what’s supposed to be the IBM conference of conferences worldwide: Lotusphere 2008. The actual conference starts today with the general speaker session, something that plenty of us are looking forward to big time, so much so that there will be a repeat of the session at a later time today as well, seeing how many more people than last year are attending the event. That clearly tells you something about the importance of what we are about to witness. And not to worry, I am hoping to be able to blog it, or, a least, twitter it.

But first things first. A couple of highlights from yesterday’s pre-event, with the Welcome Reception party and a few other things. If I were to summarise yesterday from my own perspective I guess I would be saying two different keywords: shopping and networking.

Yes, that is right. On Sunday morning, instead of going down to the lobby and get registered for the overall event, and from there onwards hanging out with some other folks, I have actually spent most of it shopping locally for some clothes and toiletries, because after a rather exhausting and extenuating trip that took me over 24 hours apparently, the couple of airlines I was flying with managed to lose my luggage! Yes, indeed! Orlando has got something really special about this because I have been a couple of times already and in all instances they have managed to lose my luggage. And that is over the course of years and with various different airline companies. Sigh.

On top of that, last Saturday there was, a lovely severe weather alert which resulted in me arriving at the hotel nearly four hours after the original time I was supposed to be there! Goodness, was I happy to be upgraded to a junior suite at the Swan hotel when I got here! That, folks, is what real customer service is all about!

So, after that bumpy start of the conference which ended up with me staying at a very very nice hotel room, getting some shopping done (Hopefully, my luggage would get here before I would need some more clothes… Fingers crossed…) and trying to sort out everything I’ll just go and detail the second highlight of the day which was getting myself into some serious social networking in real life!! And that experience, folks, was just awesome!!

Even though plenty of people were actually hanging out at the local bars catching up with some American Football (Yeah, I know exactly what you are thinking! Me, too!!) I eventually got to catch up with some folks I have wanted to meet up for quite a while. Alan Lepofsky (Who is going to be announcing something really cool during the conference… Stay tuned! Apart from something else I have been very very keen on getting my hands on for a little while now. W00t!), the one and only, Ed Brill (Who is way way too much fun and who apparently knows more about me that whatever I would have imagined! Ha! There you have it, social networking working its magic for you! heh). There have been plenty more folks I finally caught up with, and for those of you interested in finding out some more who they may well be, plus some other updates I’ll be putting together I have uploaded already a batch of pictures into my Flickr stream which will continue to go on during the course of the conference itself.

From there onwards I got to finally meet my team within the IBM Software group, the Social Software Programs & Enablement team! And that was just fantastic! Why? Because I only got to join the team about 2 months ago, and to be given the opportunity to meet them all up at a Welcome Reception party is probably the best of options to get to know them all and get busy with some serious team building!! I guess plenty of virtual teams would have the opportunity to get started the way I did last night! And yes, very very personal opinion, folks, but my team is just like no other! Wonderful bunch of folks really excited about getting things done while having some serious fun, along the lines! Yes, my ideal dream job!!

And, finally, if there was one other massive highlight from yesterday was the fact that I got one of my dreams come true as well and met one of the folks I have admired for quite some time now, more than anything else because of the kind of impact he has had, and still has, in most of us who have been following him wherever he may be going. Yes, that is right, last night, while we were at Kimono’s (A Japanese karaoke bar at the Swan hotel) I was actually sitting next, without knowing, the unforgettable Ze Frank. Yes, that same Ze Frank you are thinking about! How cool is that?!?!? You go into a bar with a bunch of your friends and all of a sudden you bump into Ze and start talking!! Whoooaaaahhh!!! That’s what just happened last night and must say that he is even cooler and way much more fun in real person! But I guess you already knew that, right?!?!

So that was it, a bit of a long blog post, I know, but plenty of things and excitement going on, don’t you think? Well, today there will be plenty more, I am sure! Stay tuned for my twitterings and blog posts because I am hoping to be able to share some more with you folks!

But so far, all of the really really high expectations I had about Lotusphere 2008 have been exceeded and big time!!! And that was just the pre-event! Imagine what it would be like over the next couple of days… Hang in there! It’s going to be a lovely ride!!

(Oh, here are some pictures of some of the folks I have met during the course of yesterday … Recognise anyone?)

Tags: IBM, Lotus, Lotusphere, Lotusphere2008, Collaboration, Shopping, Social Networking, Social Computing, Social Software, Social Media, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Sharing, KM, Communities, Alan Lepofsky, Ed Brill, Flickr, Photos, Team Building, IBM Software, Ze Frank, Kimono’s, Swan Hotel, Orlando, Twitter, Blogging, Metablogging, Learning

While James Dellow, over at ChiefTech has put together a really nice and well thought out blog post under The Potential for Enterprise Metaverses where he is actually exploring further the role of virtual worlds (i.e. Second Life) to enhance the overall business collaboration and eLearning experiences in the corporate world, and while Jasmin Tragas has put together an incredibly enlightening article on Avatar Affinity, here I am again revisiting the world of the metaverse. Yes, that is right. Even though I have been in Second Life for quite some time now, in the last few months I haven’t spent as much time as I should have, or could have.

Well, things may change from here onwards, folks. Now it seems to be a good time. I think it is time to revisit it again and continue exploring its full potential within a working environment to help improve the way we share our knowledge and collaborate with other knowledge workers across the border in this distributed world. But to me there is one other special reason why I am going to hang out much more in Second Life this year. And that is my current avatar elsua Gaea. Allow me to explain further.

Back on the 6th of January, and while over here we were celebrating the Three Kings or Three Wise Men, I got pinged by Jasmin Tragas saying that there was a lovely present awaiting for me in Second Life and that I should check it out shortly. And I did. Whooooaaahhhh! I got a lovely new outfit for my avatar, which lately was a little bit left behind. Of course, I had to try it out and lo and behold somehow my inspiration to keep on making use of Second Life re-gained its full energy and commitment. So much so that I already got a couple of community events piled up for the next few weeks and I will be participating as well in a couple of interviews around the subject of social computing!

Earlier on today I actually spent a few minutes with Jasmin hanging out together chatting about a few things around knowledge sharing, social software and collaboration. First time we ever hanged out together in Second Life and before we knew it we went further with a photo shooting session, then we played drums and before we knew it time flew, when you are having fun!

Here are some of the pictures we took:

So, if late last year I lost the connection with my avatar, something that for one reason or another may have happened, I guess that thanks to Jasmin I got it back, not only for her spot on article on Avatar Affinity, but also because she spent quite some time and effort in putting together a really cool outfit for my avatar without asking anything in return. There you have it, the power of social networking and connecting with other knowledge workers regardless wherever they may well be!

And then they may say that virtual worlds don’t help get people together and connect, well, they may need to think about it twice now!

Fancy hanging out in Second Life some time soon? … I am ready

(Thanks ever so much, Jazzydee Raymaker, for the lovely present! It is greatly appreciated!!!)

Tags: Second Life, Avatars, Jazzydee Raymaker, elsua Gaea, Jasmin Tragas, James Dellow, ChiefTech, Wonderwebby, Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0, Social Computing, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Collaboration, Communities, Learning, Virtual Worlds, Metaverse, Affinity, Connections, eLearning, Remote Collaboration, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Sharing, KM, Fun, Play, Play at Work, Social Capital

As you may have well already read over at Dennis Howlett’s Irregular Enterprise blog, or through my various twitterings, this coming Saturday I will be travelling again to the US to attend my first conference of the year and must say that I will be starting with an awesome event that I have been looking forward to for the last couple of years. Yes, indeed, this coming Saturday, and till Friday afternoon next week, I shall be in Orlando, Florida, attending IBM’s Lotusphere 2008!!!

To say that I am incredibly excited about the whole thing is probably an understatement, because I know I am off to a wild ride (Never better said!)!! This time is going to be a special occasion as well, since I will not be presenting at the event itself. I will just be splitting my time in attending as many of the sessions as I possibly can and hanging out at the "Social Software @ IBM" booth where I will be talking to a whole bunch of customers on the topic of social software, social computing and how IBM is making use of such tools to improve the knowledge sharing and collaboration across the enterprise.

At the same time I will be spending quite a bit of time demoing, while talking, of course, some of the most interesting IBM social software tools that have been coming along over the last few months, as well as giving folks a teaser about a couple of them that haven’t seen the light publicly just yet, but of which you will find out some more about very very soon! One of them, specially, is the one holding me from sharing the slide deck and pitch I did at the recent IBM iForum event in Zurich that I have been talking about quite a bit. Stay tuned because that one is coming up shortly as well! Thus if you are around and are willing to spend some time seeing what’s going on in that space come over to the "Social Software @ IBM" booth and say "Hi!"

As I get myself more and more exposed to various different details, I shall be sharing them over here. However, there are already tons of materials available all over the place that you can check out to see what the event is going to be like.  As a starter check out the Technorati tag for the event: Lotusphere2008. Then you can head over to Planet Lotus, which I am sure is going to be raving with commentary throughout the event (Already got started!). There is also a Ning space built up for the occasion as well as a Twitter channel. And the list goes on and on and on…

Also, and while you are busy trying to figure it all out, you may want to check out the link to the Tracks and Sessions to see some of the outstanding materials that will be presented throughout the few days the conference lasts. I would be, of course, very interested in following up with all of the different sessions related to social software and social computing (InsideLotus - Lotus, Portal and Collaboration Software has actually put together a very nice summary in this case, if you would want to read further on it right away).

Oh, you may be thinking that checking out all of the different sessions and tracks through the Web site is not really that friendly, right? Well, here is Genii Software coming to our rescue and putting together a superb Lotus Notes database with which you can navigate through the entire event and find the sessions you would be interested in! Here is another link to one of the most recent blog posts on the topic where you would be able to read some more about it. This would certainly become really handy, while I am stranded in airplanes for over 20 hours this coming Saturday, don’t you think?

Finally, there is one other thing that I would want to share further with you. Stay tuned for the various multiple updates that would be coming from various prolific Lotus bloggers, because I am sure they are not going to stop a single minute before, during and after the event. Special attention to Ed Brill’s blog, Alan Lepofsky’s, Chris Reckling & Ted Stanton’s InsideLotus, Mary Beth Raven’s blog, Rocky Oliver’s Lotus Geek and The Taking Notes Podcast blogs, amongst many many others, because I am sure they will all keep you busy for quite a bit. Oh, and I, too, would be looking forward to Blogging community birds-of-a-feather, of which you can read plenty more over at Ed’s blog.

In short, it looks like it is going to be one of those events difficult to forget! Plenty of good fun all around! And since it is my first Lotusphere I bet I am going to enjoy it even more! More than anything else because I am seriously looking forward to meet up with a bunch of folks I work with in this distributed world day in day out, also meet up with some of the folks I have been reading of their blogs for so many years (It surely is going to be nice to put a face behind the quality writings); and finally get together on to some really good discussions with various different people on social software and social computing! What else can I ask for?

Oh, yes, I got myself an extra battery for the MacBook Pro I’ll be bringing in with me, so it looks like I am all set! Let’s hope that the network connection would work as you would expect (So that I can blog about some of the stuff that would be going on during the event); that I get the chance to show the demos the way I intend to (Yes, indeed, I will be using the Mac for those, too!! ) and that I am able to find the folks I want to meet up amongst the several thousand people attending!! So if you are around in Orlando during that time (Starting this coming Saturday and till Friday morning) and want to say "Hi!" or go together for a drink or two while doing some massive social networking … stay in touch! You can comment on this blog post, contact me through Twitter, or Facebook, or the Ning Lotusphere space, or e-mail, or … well, you know where to find me

See you there!

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What happens when you find out that your Internet connection has been down for two days in a row and with very little you can do about it to try to fix it? I guess some people would take a couple of days off, others would get some stuff done around the house and, finally, some others would be anxiously waiting for it to come back to life as soon as possible and therefore would keep playing around in front of their computers for hours and hours no end. Well, in my case it was different. Yes, that is right. The last couple of days my Internet connection has been down. Again. Something that I couldn’t do anything about, or so I was told. Since Saturday afternoon till Monday late noon I haven’t been able to do anything other than watching the magic screen hoping it would pop up a message when ready to go. But nothing came through till a few hours ago after two painful days without being connected. I guess you tend to appreciate what you have, when you don’t have it any longer, right?

Now this was happening right after I came back from holidays and it was probably the last thing I wanted to go through, specially contemplating the massive catchup I had to go through. Still, it happened. So after the massive catastrophe I’ve been experiencing with the loss of loads and loads of feed reading materials with Omea Pro, I thought about taking a much more proactive approach towards things and, finally, decided to venture into trying out what I think is one of the most impressive applications from the new Mac Leopard system: Time Machine.

You would remember how in the past I mentioned how I have successfully upgraded my MacBook Pro to Leopard in just a few simple-enough-to-follow steps. Ever since I did it I have been enjoying some of the really nifty new features put together, but I never thought I would be trying out Time Machine so soon. Yet with the huge mess I’ve just been through with Omea Pro I thought what a better way of getting things going with Time Machine today, now that I cannot really do much work without being connected to the Internet? WOW!! What an experience!!

During the Christmas holiday, I actually got two external hard drives as presents and after having moved all of the information away from my Windows machine, I thought I would engage further with the next challenge: making use of Time Machine on the Mac. Well, I am using the word challenge here, but must say that it has been everything but that! In just a few very easy to follow steps I have been able to put one of the hard drives to good use and start backing up my essential Mac files. And all of that within a matter of seconds!!

Then a couple of hours later to finish off doing all of the backups and before I knew it everything was ready to go!! As easy as that! I have now got all of my Windows and Mac stuff fully backed up with Time Machine and I surely feel much much better! Backing your stuff in real time should be as effective and efficient as this particular application does. And the way to navigate through it to find your stuff? Goodness! That is even better!!! I am surely loving it!

And now that I come to think about it, having lost over three years of Web feed readings may have been a good thing, after all, because thanks to that unfortunate incident I decided to take the plunge and start making use of Time Machine, way before I was even thinking about giving it a try. And so far it is looking incredibly better than whatever I would have expected in the past! Just brilliant! If backing up stuff from your computer was ever designed to be elegant, smart, graceful and effective then Time Machine is your solution! And without a single doubt!!

I just wished that such an option would have been available for my Windows notebook. Unfortunately, the two backups I had didn’t work and therefore lost it all. Hopefully, now that I got everything sorted out to work with Time Machine I may no longer be running into the different issues I’ve gone through the end of last year and beginning of this one.

If you haven’t tried out Time Machine just yet and you are using Leopard on a Mac, let me take this opportunity to encourage you all to get yourself an external hard drive and start making use of it. It will all just as easy as plug and play, select a couple of options and start backing up! Nothing else needed! Oh and all of that taking place in the background, while you may be working on something else, and without taking a huge amount of resources! Another big plus!! Once again, just getting stuff done! Because that’s how computers were designed to work in the first place, right? … And I am surely glad that someone has taken that task and provide us with an application that, if anything, is state of the art, unprecedented and a must-have at all costs. Just the way I want it: stuff that works! And beautifully!

Tags: Mac, Apple, MacBook Pro, MBP, Time Machine, Backup, Back up, Omea Pro, Productivity-Tips, Productivity-Tools, Effectiveness, Efficient, Elegance, Ease of Use, Smart, Beautiful Design

If you have been reading this particular blog for a while or if you are one of the folks who have asked me in the past to suggest or recommend an offline feed reader client, you would probably know that for a good couple of years I have always been saying that Omea Pro (From the folks over at JetBrains) was just it: all you needed to have, a powerful offline feed reader that would allow you to keep everything under control and without the hassle from some other clients. Well, that statement is just about to change and here is why. Something that happened during the holidays and which I may never recover from, although I am starting to think that it may well have been a good thing, after all. Who knows…

Anyway, it all started with making use of Adobe AIR to play around with a couple of Twitter clients: Snitter and Twhirl, which was causing some kind of weird white screen Windows crashes. Looks like Adobe AIR Beta 3 still produces those crashes on the Windows machine. And lo and behold one of those crashes, while I have been away on vacation, is the one that has caused me an enormous deal of trouble.

Yes, that is right. I thought, ok, Windows crashed again. No problem, used to it for a while now, I would re-restart and back to normal. Or so I thought. When trying to get Omea Pro back to life I got a nasty error that didn’t allow me to start up the application as normal. It was asking me if I would want to load the data from previous backups. I tried a couple of them I had from the past and to no avail either. I still couldn’t load it and slowly started to get worried about the whole thing.

I searched and searched all over the place for similar symptoms to the one I was experiencing and found nothing! I reported the problem in the Omea Pro forums nearly a month ago and not a single word! I contacted several folks from the support team and still nothing! I just couldn’t get Omea Pro started to get back to my archives and daily feed readings.

By then I was seriously doubting I would ever be back to normal with my favourite feed reader client. No response in the forums, nor from the support team, nothing I could do to fix it that I didn’t try out already. Yes, I know, plain desperate!!

Well, for those folks who may have been using Omea Pro for a while you would remember how it used to an application that you would have to pay some money for. Then after a while something happened and it became freeware and, supposingly, Open Source. And, unfortunately, that is where it went down hill, because from there onwards the lack of support and commitment to a great product has left it in shambles and without a clear guidance of where it will be heading. Perhaps the next step would be to kill it. Permanently. Forever.

I know that is not a good thing, nor a good signal for the thousands and thousands of people who are currently using it. But let’s face it, if you are in trouble, you are on your own. No support, no commitment to help out. Nothing. You and your machine hoping it will be fixed. But it won’t. That is just what happened to me in the last few weeks, while I was away during the holidays.

End result? Hummm, how can I say it? … I still cannot access Omea Pro, getting the same error messages, help is not coming any time soon from anywhere, not even from the people who supposingly fully support it. And to my increasing frustration, while all of this was happening, I realised that I would no longer be able to access over 100,000 articles from several hundred feeds over the course of the last three years that I have been accumulating! All of that is now… gone!!! For good! But that is not all of it.

One of the great features from Omea Pro was the fact that you could create various different annotations for each of the articles, so over the course of the last few months I developed the habit of drafting blog posts directly into Omea Pro which I could then paste into my favourite offline blogging clients and share across various different blogs, both internally and externally. Alas, that is also now gone!!! All of those drafts I had put together and which were going to hit my blogs at some point in time are now locked and cannot get them back! OUCH!!! That is exactly how I felt when I first realised about it!

By that time I was in full panic mode. Losing over 100,000 articles of feed readings is not pleasant at all, but losing the several dozens of drafts I had is just something I am not going to get back any time soon either! Double ouch!! So … fast forward to today, nearly a month afterwards. Still cannot access Omea Pro, lost the over 100,000 articles from all of my feeds from the last few years, lost as well all of the different drafts I had piled up over the course of months. Lost my faith in technology. For good. At least, till I can ever manage to get that data back, which is not looking good thus far, I must say.

Oh, and all of this happening as well with the several dozen feeds I have got for behind-the-firewall resources. So if anyone out there was hoping I would be sharing a particular blog post, both internal and external, on a particular blog entry from last year, I am afraid that is a thing of the past! It’s not going to happen. At least, not any time soon!

So is this the fate of freeware, Open Source? Can we rely on such applications where the support goes from being incredibly good to incredibly bad, or non-existent, in just a few weeks? I surely hope that this is not the case, but right now I feel like I have just lost three years of my Internet / Intranet history. Just like that! In a split second! And without remedy!!

And to think that I have been recommending Omea Pro all along as one of the best, if not the most powerful, of offline feed reader clients?!?! I think that this is going to change. And now! If you are one of the folks who I have been recommending this particular feed reader for some time, I guess that by now you may be worried about what might happen. Yes, you should be. I wouldn’t want any of you folks having to go through the same thing I have gone through in the last few weeks. Thus here I am, writing this blog post encouraging you all to start moving away from Omea Pro and as soon as you can. Because once you encounter a problem, you are on your own, with no further help, nor support and wishing you had changed whenever you had the chance.

My chance was when I moved to the MacBook Pro and started making heavy use of Vienna, which I really really like at the moment, and which has made my life easier back again. I mentioned I had the chance, because I wanted to migrate the stuff from Omea over to the Mac, but I didn’t do it fast enough and now I am facing the consequences. Never again, I tell you. So much so, that was the last drop that filled the glass for my final move away from Windows. Right after that happened I haven’t looked back! I haven’t even turned on any longer the Windows box. Perhaps wanted to save myself the grief of knowing the data is there, but cannot access it. Perhaps it was just the right move and start with a clean slate for 2008. No regrets. Who knows.

The thing is that I am surely never going to recommend Omea Pro any longer to anyone who may be asking for options. I know I lost three years of Web feed reading and several dozens of draft blog posts, so the last thing I would want to do is to send you through to the same hassle. No, I am not going to do that. If you are looking for a Windows based offline feed reader, I have been hearing lots of good feedback with regards to FeedDemon, which, by the way, is now available for free, and which I hope doesn’t go through the same situation that Omea Pro ended up in.

Oh, and if you are using a Mac, Vienna still rules.

Finally, one other thing you may want to do is to have a backup plan. I got myself two actually: BlogLines and Google Reader. Although right now I am not using either of them. Still prefer the Mac & Vienna experiences. And if you haven’t tried them out, by all means, go ahead and do that. You will see what I mean.

And with this long blog post (I really needed to get it out of my chest) I can certainly conclude that my full migration into the Mac environment is now completed. Yes, I know, it was a painful ending, a very painful ending, but … the future is bright and that is what matters.

Tags: JetBrains, Omea, Omea Pro, Syndication, Feed Reader, RSS, Atom, Windows, Adobe, Adobe AIR, Snitter, Twhirl, Twitter, Technology, Web, Internet History, Mac, MacBook Pro, MBP, Apple, Google Reader, BlogLines, Simplicity, Ease of Use, Productivity Tools, Vienna, Freeware, Open Source, Knowledge Snippets, Knowledge Tools, Information Tools, Productivity Tools, Support, Lack of Support, Commitment, Lack of Commitment

Well, at least, mine is. Yes, that is right. Today was my first day at work in the New Year (Happy New Year to everyone out there, by the way!) and the whole day I have been rather busy catching up with work and everything else that has been going on since I took my vacation three weeks ago. And still going on for another day or so, because it seems like plenty of things have been happening, both on a personal and work levels. But I am sure you will be finding out shortly, because regular blogging activities will resume over here very shortly.

However, I just wanted to create this particular blog post here today to share a couple of quick links with you that I am sure you would be able to find rather useful, in order to keep things going, while I am getting back into the swing of things and continue with my blogging activity as I get back on track with the New Year.

The first link I would want to share with you is one that Martin Koser blogged about a few weeks back and which we are still right on time to help contribute into the overall effort. Check out Social Software as Change Management Infrastructure where he is referencing an online survey from the department of organizational design and behavior at the University of Stuttgart on "New Media on Change Management". Here is an excerpt to give you an idea of what the online survey is about:

"New media like weblogs, internet-communities, wikis and web based trainings are not only fundamentally influencing operational business and communication structures within and between companies, but also strategic processes like innovation and time based competition. The question is if and how successfully these new media are able to support change projects. We want to analyze this “beyond hypes and fads” by an online expert survey."

The survey finishes on January 15th, so we still have got a few days to go. Thus if you have got 5 to 10 minutes I bet that we could all provide some very helpful input that would help draft some interesting ideas on how social software and social computing in general can influence a discipline as static and strict as Change Management has been all along. Fancy going for it? … I already submitted my input heh

And the second link is a follow up from a series of blog posts that I have shared a few months back on the subject of the Enterprise 2.0 debate between Tom Davenport and Andy McAfee. It looks like tomorrow, at 11am EST, there is another debate on that very same subject of Enterprise 2.0 and it surely looks like an interesting one. Hopefully, with a bit more meat than the last one.

You will be able to find all of the different details about it, including the link to register for the event, which is free, by the way, at the FASTForward Blog post Andrew McAfee and Tom Davenport webinar on Viability of Enterprise 2.0 from Hylton Jolliffe.

I will probably be able to attend the actual event and although I am not sure whether I would be live blogging it or not, will depend on how well I get on with the massive catchup. I am sure though I will be live twittering it to some extent. Thus stay tuned for some more to come. Oh and get ready for some other exciting announcements I’ll be making over the course of the next couple of days, because they are surely going to include some massive changes over here in this blog. But that would be the story for another blog post …

(It’s good to be back…)

Tags: 2008, New Year, Happy New Year, Vacation, Holidays, Work, Martin Koser, Frogpond, Social Software, Social Computing, Social Networking, Social Media, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Change Management, Knowledge Management, KM, Knowledge Sharing, University of Stuttgart, Organisational Design and Behaviour, Enterprise 2.0 Debate, Tom Davenport, Andrew McAfee, FASTForward Blog, Hylton Jolliffe, Twitter, Webinars, Learning