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Enterprise 2.0 Conference – What to Expect – Day 1

Posted on Jun 17, 2009 | Categories: Collaboration, Communities, Conference Events, Enterprise2.0, IBM, Innovation, Knowledge Management, Social Enterprise, Travelling | Leave a comment

And we are off on to the first day at the upcoming Enterprise 2.0 event in Boston, starting next week Tuesday, 23rd of June 2009. I have already put together a couple of blog posts about what to expect from the general announcement and the pre-event day, so this one will be about what will be happening during the Day 1 of the event itself and, more specifically, what I will be up to myself. Basically, what session(s) I will be attending that draw my interest the most.

This is going to be a day with a fully packed agenda, and since I will be expecting to do plenty of live tweeting from most of the sessions I think I’m just going to keep things rather short and add a line or two next to the sessions I am planning to attend. That way you folks get an idea of what I will be up to, and, much more interestingly, you can already have a good sneak preview of the kind of topics Day 1 will have for us all. Thus without much further ado, here are the list of session(s) I’m planning to attend so far:

Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom: How Online Social Networking Will Transform Your Life, Work and World #e2conf9 with Matthew Fraser – Where I’d expect a good reality check on how social networking has got more to do with a lifestyle fully embracing the Social Web than just about a bunch of social software tools. No, I haven’t read the book just yet (On my To-Read list…)
Open Enterprise 2009 #e2conf11 with Stowe Boyd & Oliver Marks – Where they will both be presenting to us their key findings on the Open Enterprise 2.0 initiative they have been working on and which I have blogged about already a couple of times… I am sure this session is going to be one of the key highlights from the entire event! No doubt!
Winning Open Enterprise 2009 Case Study #e2conf12 with Stowe and Oliver, once again, where they will announce one company that "will emerge from this process as a business that truly exemplifies these goals and will present their case study at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference." Intrigued … (Is all I can say so far!)
Enterprise 2.0 Reality Check – What’s Working, What’s Not, What’s Next #e2conf10 with Matthew Fraser, Christian Finn, Nate Nash, Neil Callahan and Ross Mayfield – The first panel session of the day and, I am certain, the first reality check on where Enterprise 2.0 is, and where it is heading… I expect this one to be an eye opener for most of us…
Lessons Learned From Internal Communities #e2conf30 with Peter Kim, Jamie Pappas, Joan DiMicco and Patricia Romeo – My interest on this one? Well, I have been doing online facilitation, online virtual communities / community building since 2001 and I still feel I’m at the beginning of the learning curve. So I want to learn more! And I know I will with this session…
Transition Strategies for E2.0 Adoption #e2conf26 with Lee Bryant AND / OR Help! Marcom Doesn’t Get Social Media! #e2conf19 with Maggie Fox, Chris Almond, Gil Yehuda, Marius Ciortea and Robin Bordoli – Yes, I know! First double conflict of the conference that I will be facing, since both sessions look really good! There is very little that I’d probably have to say about Lee that I haven’t said it already; always insightful; always knowledgeable; in short, a must watch! But then what can I say about folks like Maggie, Chris and Gil, who I know and have followed for a long while now, and always learn something new from them? A perfect chance to get to know both Marius and Robin, don’t you think? Well, let’s see how I resolve this conflict …
How Twitter Changes Everything #e2conf21 with Jessica Lipnack, Bill Ives, Clara Shih, Isaac Garcia and Patti Anklam AND / OR Open Enterprise 2009 In Depth #e2conf37 with with Stowe Boyd & Oliver Marks – Arrrggghh! 2nd conflicting items in the agenda for the conference! My decision as to which one to make would pretty much depend on the morning sessions with Stowe and Oliver; right now I am feeling pretty inclined towards listening to folks I have followed and admired for a while in the Knowledge Management and Virtual Collaboration space, like Jessica, Bill and Patti, and excited to get to find out plenty more about Clara and Isaac! Plus most folks know already my everlasting love / hate relationship with Twitter, so wondering whether this session will finally make me go either way! We shall see…

And that’s it, folks, for Day 1! Pretty intense and exciting, don’t you think? Like I said, these are the sessions that I plan to attend and, as such, I will be looking forward to sharing further insights live, while we are there, through my tweets over at @elsuacon. Then later in the evening there are a couple of various different networking events, but, like I said, I will be putting together a short blog post detailing plenty more details about my favourite activity while at conferences… Stay tuned!

And get ready! In the next few hours I will be sharing the sessions I plan to attend for Day 2! And watch it, because there will be conflicts again! I told ya, *so* much to experience this year! Where will you be next week? I hope to see you there!

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Enterprise 2.0 Conference – What to Expect – The Pre-Event

Posted on Jun 16, 2009 | Categories: Collaboration, Communities, Conference Events, Enterprise2.0, IBM, Innovation, Knowledge Management, Learning, Social Enterprise, Travelling | 4 Comments

Continuing further with that series of blog posts I mentioned yesterday I would be sharing during the course of this week on the upcoming Enterprise 2.0 event taking place in Boston next week, here is the first of a couple of entries where I will be covering briefly the actual agenda of the event and, perhaps much more interestingly, what you may expect from each of the sessions per day. And, in this case, I will also be blogging about each of the sessions I will be attending myself based on those expectations.

So, instead of putting together a massively long post, I’m just about to start a bunch of shorter ones, detailing what my current planning for the event would be like starting with next week Monday, the pre-event day itself, if you allow me to call it like that, and that way you can see what is driving my interests at the moment (Specially in the areas of Social Computing, Knowledge Sharing, Learning, Collaboration, Communities and, of course, Enterprise 2.0), as well as providing some insights on what you may expect, just like me, from the event of events! Thus let’s get the ball rolling!

Implementing Enterprise 2.0: Exploring the Tools and Techniques of Emergent Change #e2conf1 (With Dion Hinchcliffe)

The pre-event day is always the one about workshops; perhaps one of the most interactive days and, as such, I am sure this year is not going to be any different. And this specific one is the one I plan to attend during the course of the morning. As usual, it will be hosted by my good friend, the always insightful and resourceful, Dion Hinchcliffe, who will be sharing with us "an in-depth overview of the state of Enterprise 2.0 from grassroots, emergent collaboration to large-scale social media strategy".

He usually does this session every year before the event really gets started and, to be honest, for those folks who may not have been exposed to Enterprise 2.0 just yet, or for those folks who would want to know what else is happening out there, it’s one of those workshops not to be missed! If not, check out the section on "You Will Learn" listed at the main agenda. Always plenty of new stuff to learn about, whether you are a primer into, or well versed in, social computing, you know it’ll be worth the time!

Reality 2.0: Getting Started With Enterprise Social Networking #e2conf4 (With Mike Gotta)

And this will be the second workshop of the day that I plan to attend, the one in the afternoon, and one that I have been looking forward to diving in plenty more, and for a while now, since Mike has already blogged about what he will be touching base on under "Enterprise 2.0 Conference, Social Networking Workshop" and it surely sounds like one workshop not to miss out on either!

I know, and have followed, Mike for several years now and I consider him to be part of the pool of some of most eloquent and amazingly talented industry analysts in the Enterprise 2.0 scene. And surely finding out plenty more about the recent study the Burton Group conducted around Social Networking will be the key highlight from the workshop itself. I am sure. Specially, if you read further on the section on "You Will Learn" that I am reproducing below:

"What are the critical issues confronting social networking project teams, and how organizations are responding to those challenges and opportunities

How project teams are dealing with the business case for enterprise social networking, including concerns over ROI and metrics

What cultural issues do social networking projects tend to surface, and how did organizations in the study address legal, HR, compliance and security considerations

What difficulties project teams will likely encounter as they try to convince employees to adopt social networking platforms (e.g., profiles), and what adoption tactics were used to jumpstart participation (e.g., expertise location, communities).

How interviewees felt their IT organizations were handling with the topic of social networking, along with high-level impressions from participants regarding their experiences with different tools (e.g., IBM Lotus Connections, Jive Software, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server)"

Doesn’t it want to make you be there like today? It certainly does it for me! And that’s the reason why I am really looking forward to his workshop, as well as that one from Dion. I bet it’s going to be quite an amazing couple of workshops! And to top things further, at the end of the day, I will be participating in the first, of several, TweetUps! Yay! But that will be the topic for another blog post on the various networking activities I will be participating in and hanging out at… Like I said … There is just *so* much going on this year!

For now, though this is what I plan to do during Monday 22nd 2009, at the Enterprise 2.0 pre-event in Boston. But how about you? What will you be up to?

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Trip to Boston to Attend Enterprise 2.0 Conference Event

Posted on Jun 15, 2009 | Categories: Collaboration, Communities, Conference Events, Enterprise2.0, IBM, Innovation, Knowledge Management, Learning, Social Enterprise, Travelling | 5 Comments

As you may have seen already from my Dopplr account it’s that time of the year where it looks like I will be on the road again. And this time around to attend what, to me, still is considered the Enterprise 2.0 event of events: Enterprise 2.0, in Boston, MA (Taking place June 22nd to June 25th 2009). Yes, that’s right! This coming Saturday, June 20th, I will be on my way to Boston to go and prepare for plenty of exciting things happening during the course of next week. Just wonderful!

There is just so much happening before, during and after the event itself that I doubt I would be able to fit it all in a single blog post. So this year I have decided to take a different approach and perhaps put together a bunch of blog posts over the next few days that will detail a little bit what it is that you would be able to find over there, if you get a chance to attend the event live or remotely, if you can’t make it this time around. But let me tell you that it will surely be plenty of good fun! All over the place!

You will be able to get a glimpse of the quality of the keynote and breakout sessions if you peek quickly through the agenda itself. Later on this week I will be sharing with you folks my already selected agenda of the stuff I will be looking forward to. It hasn’t been an easy choice, I tell you, but I am sure it will be worth it. And very much so!

At the Enterprise 2.0 Blog you will already be able to get a taster of some of the amazing stuff that will be happening there, during the event, like witnessing the Launch Pad Final Four main stage presenters that will be there (Watch out for Manymoon as one of the most impressive new ideas coming out there in the Enterprise 2.0 space!) or checking out for yourself some of the key findings that both Oliver Marks and Stowe Boyd has been going through with their Open Enterprise 2.0 initiative, launched earlier on this year, and whose results they will presented during the event.

And the list of happenings goes on and on and on! Non stop! Like I said, I will be blogging over the next couple of days on some of the really good stuff you should go, check out and follow up further with, because there is just so much to share across and talk about that one or two entries are not going to do justice to the kind of stuff we will be exposed to as we are getting closer to the kickoff of the event!

As usual, and, like I have been doing at most face to face conference events that I have attended so far, there is a great chance that I will be live tweeting at @elsuacon, more thank live con-blogging (I will be putting together blog posts with highlights on a per day basis digesting through my notes captured through the live tweeting itself). This time around there is going to be a fundamental change on how the conference has been running all along. The focus, this time around, will be around making use of Twitter to help folks enhance the face to face experience(s). And to such extent, if you check out the agenda itself, you will notice how each keynote and breakout session has got its own hash tag! Thus following up with each and everyone of the sessions will be much faster and easier for everyone, whether you are attending live or virtually.

But there are some other really cool things happening. All of the sessions will be recorded through video and made available at some point. So there is a great chance that we would be able to catch up through various different highlights on what the sessions were like, if we can’t be there in the same room. W00t! At the same time all of the keynote speaker sessions will be live streamed, too!, so you will have a chance to get a taster on what to expect from the rest of the event itself. Double w00t!

This year, at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston, there will be more case studies than ever before, giving a chance to those attending face to face to find out plenty more how pioneering companies from all over the world have been able to deploy successfully Enterprise 2.0 techniques getting all the benefits from this new model of engagement, both inside and outside of the firewall.

I have been assured that the wi-fi during the event will have some really high expectations that it will be working just right this time around, as opposed to some of the irks we experienced last year, which, to me, is music to my ears, because there will be plenty of really good stuff we would want to capture live, while in there, and spread it around as much as we possibly can! And that’s something I’m more than happy to experience beginning of next week, when the event kicks off… Fingers crossed that everything will work out just fine!

Phew! Already going on the long side for this blog post. I told you, there are just so many more cool things to share about Enterprise 2.0 in Boston next week! I will wrap up, for now, mentioning that I will be arriving into Boston on late Saturday evening and will be there till Friday afternoon, before flying back home. So if you would want to get together for a drink or two, or hanging out for a while, you know how you can contact me

Finally, last, but not least, in case you may be a bit undecided just yet about making it to the Enterprise 2.0 event of events, go ahead and use this code (CNAPEB27) for 30% off a conference or workshop package, or a free Pavilion Pass, which sounds enticing enough to perhaps give it a try, if you happen to be around the area during the course of next week.

Either way, not to worry, in upcoming blog posts I will be trying to share with you folks some further insights on what to expect from the Enterprise 2.0 event in Boston, and how I plan to spend it while I am there! So far the overall agenda is piling up quite quickly, so hoping to be able to share the final details in the next few hours…

Are you going to miss out on Enterprise 2.0? I hope not. I just can’t wait for it to get started and begin to absorb plenty of key learnings on where Enterprise 2.0 is heading and where we all are at the moment. Ready for an Enterprise 2.0 reality check? I surely am, baby!