8/8/8 is an auspicious day to mark transitions! I am fortunate today to have a big transition to announce. :-)

Today is my last day as Socialtext CTO. After today, I will continue to be involved with Socialtext as an advisor. And I will begin working full-time with Dreamfish, a unique organization headquartered in San Francisco.

Socialtext has been my baby and an overwhelmingly large part of my life since I co-founded it with Ross, Adina and Ed more than five years ago. It's been an experience like no other, with lots of excitement, and joy, and fun. We set out to change the landscape of collaboration in business, and I believe we have achieved that goal.

I want to thank everybody I've been involved with as part of Socialtext -- my co-founders and their families, our investors, all of the folks who have worked so hard building Socialtext, and especially, the Socialtext fans and customers -- there wouldn't have been a Socialtext without you!

The story of how this transition came to be is the story of two CEOs -- Eugene Lee at Socialtext, and Tiffany von Emmel at Dreamfish.

If you've been following Socialtext, you'll know that we hired Eugene about nine months ago. Finding Eugene was spectacularly cool. He's got just the right background for Socialtext -- deep experience in both startup and enterprise realms, and a personal mission to connect people using social software, like me. We had a big all-hands face-to-face meeting soon after he came on board. (The Socialtext all-hands f2f's are big deals, since we're a distributed company, and much of the company flies in from around the continent.)

When Eugene, with his enterprise background, went over his dream outcome for Socialtext -- enabling emergent distributed teams to create, share, and distribute knowledge faster and more effectively than ever before, and making a hugely successful company doing it -- I knew two things: that we'd picked the right person, and that I had reached my personal goal in starting Socialtext, to create a sustaining and growing business proving out the vision of enterprise social software.

During the nine months since then, I've been heads-down with two projects: making sure Eugene was up-to-speed with everything Socialtext (and he is now, and beyond!), and a new R&D project (which is still top sekrit, so I can't talk about it yet).

Dreamfish, and Tiffany, hit me like a tidal wave that came out of nowhere. Tiffany and I had met at a really cool collaboration workshop run by Eugene Eric Kim last year. We had fun workshopping together, but went our separate ways after that until recently, when Tiffany realized she needed a super-duper Internet technology maven who also had a lot of grounding in collaborative social process. I'm flattered to say she thought of me, and when we met to discuss Dreamfish, we immediately hit it off. We had a shared vision of social support for change, along with interests in sustainability, sociology and psychology of tools for group process, complex adaptive behavior of living systems, and thinking about new ways to express and manage exchanges of value between people.

I still dearly love Socialtext and its people and mission. Eugene's got things well in hand, though, and at the same time, Dreamfish and Tiffany are in that early startup phase that I love so much, and really need my help. It seems like the right time to move onward along my personal mission and transition over to working full-time on Dreamfish.

You can read more about what Dreamfish does on the website: http://dreamfish.com/services/. If you think Dreamfish might be able to support you and your organization in sustainable change, please get in touch with Tiffany or me at Dreamfish.

My family and I are going to take a short break, and go camping up in the Sierra foothills for four days, so I'll be offline until Wednesday, August 13th or so. To get in touch with me, you can still use my personal email address, kaminski@istori.com, and of course you'll always be able to find me via http://peterkaminski.com/ (which currently redirects to this wiki).

Thanks for reading, and stay in touch!