London wikiwed 8 March 2006: this is what happened
On the 8th March (ie the second Wednesday in March!) PwC have kindly offered to host our March meeting in Central London at which they will supply a room, refreshments (beers, tea, coffee etc), external internet access (possibly only via an internal laptop but WiFi is being assessed) and a LitePro will be available.
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Plumtree Court,
Just off Farringdon Street,
London,
EC4A 4HT.
Go to Reception and you'll be met and either directed to the room or someone will 'meet and greet'. We'll plan to start gathering around 1815 and we'll try to start having people each do a five minute "show and tell" from 1900.
To try to focus our efforts for this meeting I think it would be valuable to make this an event which is a "let's see what people are doing" kind of event which would give us a view on where the UK is at and who is using which approaches to do what things.
What thoughts and ideas do you have? Is there something you are keen to present to an interested audience?
Amongst the topics We'd love to see presented...
- Best UK-based wiki implementation
- Interesting corporate uses of podcasting
- Most bleeding edge combination of Communities of Practice approaches and social software
- Corporate mashups
Attendee ( ) / speaker ( ) / listeners ( )
1. John Barben - happy to talk on the application of Web2.0 to Communities of Practice Attendee (y) / speaker (y) / listeners (y)
3. Lars Plougmann - happy to discuss recent thoughts about granularity of content and impact on business priorities - attendee (yes) / speaker (potentially) / listener (always). 8 March ok.
larsplougmann. My email address is my name concatenated with @gmail.com.
My photos from the event here. Sorry that I didn't capture everyone presenting.
4. Mike Butcher - journalist, mbites.com (see Will the UK catch the Web 2.0 wave?)- listener (y)
5. Deirdre Molloy (editor / Beers & Innovation organiser, NMK) - attendee (y) / listener (y) Unlikely to make it now due to work committments
6. Matt O'Neill (Director, Activ-Media). attendee (yes) / speaker (yes) / listener (yes). Happy to talk about internal / external facing podcasting in corporations / trade associations / and international organisations. Shame about tommorow being postponed. 8th looks fine.
7. Robert Crompton Director Cogito Attendee (y) and keen interest in what might help drive mobile web use.
8. Ian Forrester - Attendee (y) / listeners (y)
9. Niraj Bhatt - Want to know about wiki. 8th will be fine for me. - Attendee (Y) / listeners (Y)
10. Jeremy Ruston - can cheerfully talk about TiddlyWiki concepts, technology, examples, community growth, etc. Attendee (y) / speaker (y) / listeners (y)
11. Riccardo Cambiassi - Attendee (y) / Listeners (y)
12. Dan Dixon - Attendee (y) / Speaker (possibly) / Listner (y)
13. Andy Roberts would like to share action research findings, maybe talk about wikis for communities of practice. Online exhibition also commences March 8th, Wiki barn raising starts March 10th Attendee (y) / Speaker (y) / Listener (y)
14. Paul Birch - Up for everything
15. Colin Donald - looking forward to showing and discussing Jigsaw, a new wiki to support the development of the UK new media industry - Attendee (y) / Speaker (y) / Listener (y)
16. David Terrar - we (that's Dennis Howlett and I) are just starting StartMEup which aims to be the premier, free, independent, wiki, business information resource for SMEs and start ups in the UK and Europe. It is kindly hosted by SocialText. If you follow the trail from here to here to here you'll see the idea started with a post late last Tuesday, so things move fast in this new world - I'll be coming along to tell a bit and learn a lot - Attendee (y) / Speaker (y) / Listener (y)
17. Nick Swan - Attendee (y) / Listener (y) - Happy to talk about anything IT related! Especially Microsoft SharePoint Stuff!
18. Robert Schumann - Attendee (y) / Speaker (possibly) / Listner (y). I'm implementing a wiki for a university division which presents some interesting challenges. New to the wiki thing, but willing to share what I'm trying!
19. Nizam Shaikh - Attendee (y) / Listener (y)
20.Mudassir Husain - Fujitsu Services - Attendee (y) / Listener (y)
21. Howard Harris - Attendee (y) / Listener (y)
22. Sungmin Park - Attendee (y) / Listener (y)