CTC 2006 Press Coverage
CNET: Corporate America wakes up to Web 2.0
By Martin LaMonica
June 26, 2006
Big companies have for years installed industrial-strength content management systems in the hope of sparking collaboration among workers. There was just one problem: People didn't use them.
Ed Brill: Collaboration, technology, travel, and more: RSS: The new intranet protocol?
By David Berlind
June 26, 2006
David Berlind, triggered by some of the coverage coming out of the Collaborative Technologies Conference last week, analyzes what "collaboration" really means in today's technology terms...
ZDNet: RSS: The new intranet protocol?
By David Berlind
June 26, 2006
In a story he headlined Web 2.0 sews grassroots collaboration, CNET News.com's Martin LaMonica wrote:
Like others, Seely Brown expects to see a wide range of techniques common on consumer Web applications–including blogs, collaborative Web page editing through wikis, tagging and RSS (Really Simple Syndication)-based subscriptions–to bleed into mainstream business applications….new Web standard products could push people to stop using e-mail to share documents and instead collaborate through shared workspaces like wikis….The onus is back on the incumbent providers, especially IBM and Microsoft, to (react). This stuff is beyond good enough, and it's easy to work with," [said Burton Group analyst Peter O'Kelly].
EContentMag.com: I Column Like I CM: When to Wiki, When to Blog
By Bob Doyle
July 11, 2006
More and more often I hear clients who want a new website saying, "Why can't we use a wiki?" or "shouldn't we just start a blog?" This is particularly true of businesses and other large organizations that already have significant websites but aren't satisfied with them for some reason or other.
BlogHer: NGOS, Collaborative Technologies, and Interesting Women!
By Beth Kanter, Annette Kramer, Learning Lab Blog
June 23, 2006
The Collaborative Technologies Conference sponsored by CMP took place in Boston this past week. I didn't go (too expensive for my budget), but I had the pleasure of having dinner in Boston's North End with Nancy White (who was attending and leading a workshop on virtual meetings) and a few other conference participants, including two fascinating women who work in the areas of collaborative technologies, online learning, and NGOS.
Learning Lab: Improving Everyday Business Practice: Collaborative Technololgies Conference
By Annette Kramer, PhD
June 23, 2006
This week, I attended the Collaborative Technologies Conference (CTC) in Boston sponsored by CMP.
The focus was emergent practices, tools, and ideas about collaborating across enterprises and elsewhere. In other words, everyone was talking about how to connect more effectively, particularly in teams and meetings.
Prediction Markets Blog by Consensus Point: Using Prediction Markets for Collaboration
By David Perry
June 23, 2006
I was in Boston this week where I spoke at the Collaborative Technologies Conference about how prediction markets are being used as enterprise collaboration tools. The panel was called “Large Scale Collaboration: Prediction Markets & Social Networks” and I was joined by Mike Wing, VP of Strategic Communications at IBM and Jessica Lipnack, CEO of NetAge, Inc.
Connecting the Dots: Collaborative Technologies Conference: Day 3
By Steve Borsch
June 22, 2006
This morning was my session on "Business Continuity and Collaboration" (Powerpoint delivered as PDF here). My mandate was to lead an open discussion about an admittedly very deep and broad topic and be a "conversation starter." There was alot of conversation and people really participated.
Phil Windley's Technometria: Collaboration Technologies and Timezones
By Windley
June 21, 2006
I've switched venues to the Collaborative Technologies Conference, also in Boston this week. I'll be giving a talk in Identity 2.0 tomorrow morning at 8:45. The conference is at the Seaport, a very nice hotel near the Boston World Trade Center. I was able to take the T from MIT, where we were this morning, right to the WTC for $1.25. What a bargain. The silver line is this weird underground bus thingie; first time I've ever seen that.
Phil Windley's Technometria: Getting People to Use Collaborative Tools
By Windley
June 21, 2006
The Web 2.0 session was postponed until tomorrow, so I went to a session called “Collaborative Workspaces: Making the Transition.” The panel was moderated by Jessica Lipnack, CEO & Co-founder, NetAge Inc. Other panel members were Tor Eneroth, Culture Manager, Volvo IT; Mike Wing, VP, Strategic Communications, IBM; and David Wires, Partner, Wires Jolley LLP.
Eric Mack Online: Foldera Lives!
By Eric Mack
June 21, 2006
My buddy, Michael Sampson, the new World-Wide Director of something or other, blogs that Foldera has starting the public beta of their web-based organizer and messaging/collaboration service.
Irwin Lazar's Real-Time Blog: Collaborative Technologies Conference Underway
By Irwin Lazar
June 21, 2006
I've made it to the Collaborative Technologies Conference being held this week in Boston. The event appears to be well attended, I've heard estimates of around 800 total attendees, which is about twice the attendance of last year.
Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check: Collaborative Technologies Conference Boston 2006 : CTC Presentations
By Peter O'Kelly
June 21, 2006
Collaborative Technologies Conference Boston 2006 : CTC Presentations My Burton Group colleague Mike Gotta and I presented a session titled "Microsoft vs IBM Lotus: Comparative Analysis" at the CTC 2006 event yesterday. You can download the presentation pdf here. 42 slides in 45 minutes -- and we even had time for Q&A... I counted at least 4 attendees from IBM and Microsoft in the room, and nobody threw anything at us, so apparently we managed to keep it fairly balanced...
Full Circle Online Interaction Blog: Linda Stone at the Collaborative Technologies Conference
By Nancy White
June 21, 2006
Usual live blogging disclaimers - misspells, missed statements and mis-typos! I'm here at the Collaborative Technologies Conference in Boston. There is a wiki and I will place these notes in the wiki in a bit.
The Webinar Blog: CTC Wednesday sessions
By Ken Molay
June 21, 2006
I attended a couple of afternoon sessions before flying home today. One session talked about basic issues in implementing the virtual workforce. I was a bit frustrated because the two speakers, both associated with consulting businesses in the collaborative arena and both with backgrounds in formal psychology, presented facts and sound bites without ever expressing a point of view. It must be significant that while virtual work arrangements are growing at many companies, HP has scrapped their home-worker program and brought their employees back into a traditional office environment. Yet this was briefly mentioned as a throwaway factoid and never discussed again.
The Webinar Blog: A Few More CTC Exhibitors
By Ken Molay
June 21, 2006
I had a chance to talk to the Cisco product marketing manager for their Unified Communications group. Mike Fratesi took me through their web conferencing components as part of the larger unified communications product set. Cisco is a strong believer in the integrated voice/data/web technology vision. They have some very fancy telephone presence detection using their dedicated installed hardware. The web conferencing piece is primarily targeted at internal collaborative meetings rather than external formal webinars. For instance, they don't support an integrated event registration facility. The software itself comes in two flavors. Cisco MeetingPlace Enterprise has plugins to permit easy group scheduling from enterprise calendaring programs like Outlook. It also ties in to telephone presence and audio conferencing through Cisco's voice networking. MeetingPlace Express is their "simple, powerful conferencing" solution, using Flash technology for install-free browser based conferences. That sounds good, and when Mike started showing me the interface I suddenly realized it was Macromedia Breeze! Cisco OEM'd the software, added some bells and whistles for integration with their networking products and took out the registration stuff. So you get all the standard Breeze functionality inside a web conference, using the Macromedia configurable "pods."
Heise Online: Wikis und Blogs für "Enterprise 2.0" (in German)
By Jo Bager
June 21, 2006
Teamwork, im Branchenjargon auch gerne Enterprise Collaboration genannt, ist ein wichtiger Produktionsfaktor. Darin sind sich die Redner des ersten Tages der Collaboration Technology Conference in Boston einig. Die Teilnehmer, darunter Software-Schwergewichte wie Microsoft, IBM, Adobe und EMC, Open-Source-Hersteller und Entscheider aus Großunternehmen, diskutieren dort über neue Ansätze bei der Teamarbeit.
Foldera Blog: Collaborative Technologies Conference; Dia Uno
By Oliver Starr
June 21, 2006
The CTC got off to a brisk start on Monday. It is my first time attending this particular event and I have to say I was surprised by how well attended it is, both in terms of conference attendees as well as exhibitors.
37 Signals: Getting in too-much touch (interruption is not collaboration)
By Baschon
June 21, 2006
I just got back from the Collaborative Technologies Conference in Boston. I was there to talk about some of the ideas behind how we collaborate at 37signals. You can download a PDF of my slides. They’re spartan so they may not make a whole lot of sense unless you were there, but I said I’d post them for everyone at the conference so here they are.
Collaborative Strategies:
By David Coleman
June 21, 2006
Instant Messaging 2.0?
At the CTC conference yesterday I ran into Stowe Boyd, who, like me, is on the advisory board for the conference and running a few panels here. We had a short conversation about Yahoo Messenger, WebEx/AOL's upcoming release of their IM, the Mac, and what all this means.
I have written about Mashups a lot over the past few months, and Yahoo just had another "Hack day" last Thursday (they seem to have these about every 6 months). With hundreds of new ideas emerging from these sessions, many of these ideas are good enough to get funded and later become features or new applications.
TimeBridge: Impressions from CTC2006 / Boston
By Yori
June 20, 2006
I am at the Collaborative Technology Conference (CTC 2006) in Boston (where the temprature is now– pretty interesting crowd in here. I was speaking on a panel organized by Michael Sampson previously one of the best collaboration bloggers out there www.shared-spaces.com [rip] and now with Foldera [good luck, Michael!])- and moderated by Larry Cannell from Ford titled “Calendaring: Time for an Update”.
IBM Lotus Notes / Domino Hints and Tips : Collaborative Technologies Conference
By Eugene Eric Kim
June 20, 2006
Today was the first day of the Collaborative Technologies Conference in Boston. Almost all of the conferences I've previously attend are either Lotus related or MS related. This was totally different, instead it was an "industry event". The list of speakers was incredible. (still is, the event has 2 more days). There were multiple keynotes this morning, with presenters including John Seely Brown former Chief Scientist at Xerox PARC, Mike Rhodin the General Manager of Lotus, Matthew Glotzbach Head of Enterprise Products at Google, Jason Fried CEO of 37 Signals, and others. (see the agenda for full details).
Inside Google / Inside Microsoft: Collaborative Technologies Conference: Presence-Enabled Real-Time Communication
By Nathan Weinberg
June 20, 2006
The whole conference appears to be about 30 minutes behind schedule, with sessions starting late and ending late. Nothing lost, although it does seems to force the speakers to get to the point a lot faster, so maybe this is the right way to do it.
This panel is about communications, most of which is enabled through Microsoft products like Outlook, Messenger, Office Communicator, Sharepoint, so I’m quickly realizing this session belongs on the Microsoft blog, so the post is over here. I’ll link here every time I post something on the conference there, but you really should just read both blogs.
Inside Google / Inside Microsoft: Collaborative Technologies Conference: Settling In
By Nathan Weinberg
June 20, 2006
So, I’m waiting for a session on real-time communication technologies to start. Just sat in on a panel on blogs and wikis for companies. I’m not going blog it, even though it was interesting. Anil Dash from Six Apart was up there, as well as Ross Mayfield from social text and Peter Thoeny of Twiki. Good stuff, but nothing I didn’t really know.
Thoughts so far: Good-lookin’ conference, I see lots of booths being set um I’ll surely visit when it opens at 4:00. Wish the press center was larger and in an enclosed room (plenty of reporters like to do interviews, and this area isn’t suited for it. Plus, if I was already podcasting, I’d want a quiet space for that). Wi-fi is weak. First post is not so interesting (that would be this one, dope). Expect a nice report in an hour.
By the way, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 is da’ bomb for conference blogging.
Stu Downes: Successful Adoption of Collaboration
By Stu Downes
June 19, 2006
Tags: ctc2006, Collaboration, Adoption
Ask a room of about 70 people:
a) How many of you have an IT function? 75%
b) How many of you have recently introduced new collaboration technology? 75%
c) How many of you have acheived over 80% adoption? 0%
Interesting results. The audience were more geared towards managing change than specific technologies, but all the same an interesting adoption rate!
/ Message: CTC2006
By Stowe Boyd
June 21, 2006
Event Hell
At CTC2006, I was dismayed to hear Jen Pahlka state in her opening comments that there would be no breaks until lunch. Gah!
We are in event hell, where we get no chance to chat about what is going on until way too much later. I want more loose space, more schmoozing, not more powerpoints!
Inside the Cubicle: CTC - "Identity 2.0"
By Jeffrey Treem
June 21, 2006
The first session I attended on Thursday was given by Dr. Phillip Windley from BYU and titled "Identity 2.0."
Why does identity matter? In today's world where service transaction are increasing, and hard goods transactions are decreasing, identity matters.
What is an identity? credentials, attributes or traits that are associated with a particular identifier
Inside the Cubicle: CTC - "Real-Time Communications Dashboards: Making Real-Time Collaboration Real"
By Jeffrey Treem
November 30, -0001
This talk was moderated by Johna Till Johnson, President, Nemertes Research and included
- David Bieselin, Director of Software Development, Cisco Systems
- Doree Duncan Seligmann, PhD, Director Collaborative Applications Research, Avaya Labs
- David Marshak, Senior Product Manager, IBM
Johna:
The number of people who are virtual workers has increased 800% over the past five years, A virtual worker is someone whose boss or manager is in a different location.
Inside the Cubicle: CTC - "Generational Shifts: Brain Drain and Youth Culture"
By Jeffrey Treem
June 21, 2006
Next up was a panel discussion on generational shifts: Stowe Boyd, Managing Director, A working Model moderated with comments from John Beck, author, Got Game and Jim Ware, Executive Producer, Work Design Collaborative
Inside the Cubicle: CTC- Linda Stone
By Jeffrey Treem
June 21, 2006
To kick off Day 2, we heard from Linda Stone, who discussed "Attention in an Always on World."
We are operating in an increasingly noisy world.
Yet the sweet spot of opportunity is the meeting place of human desire and new technology.
Inside the Cubicle: CTC - "Social Software"
By Jeffrey Treem
June 21, 2006
This session on social software was run by Ross Mayfield, CEO of SocialText. As a fan of Ross' blog, I was looking forward to this presentation and he did not disappoint.
If the notes are a little disjointed, I apologize as it was more of a conversation than a presentation (which is a good thing). Not all of these notes are from Ross, some are from participants, but they are all lumped together.
Social software – software that creates group interaction
Web 2.0 is made of people. There is a critical mass of people on the internet now to make things happen
There is a significant trend of people who feel comfortable sharing identities and be more transparent.
Inside the Cubicle: CTC - "The Social Life of Learning in teh Networked Age"
By Jeffrey Treem
June 20, 2006
For the second time today, I got to hear the esteemed John Seely Brown speak about collaboration. Here are his comments from the session "The Social Life of Learning in the Networked Age."
For a more in-depth report, check out Ross Mayfield's account of the presentation
The end goal is to create a culture of learning
The traditional view of learning is the Cartesian view (I think, therefore I am) - knowledge as substance. The result is pedagogy as transferring knowledge.
Inside the Cubicle: CTC - Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps
By Jeffrey Treem
November 30, -0001
Below are comments from Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps of NetAge.
"We can't solve 21st-century problems with 19th-century organizations" - quote from member of CIA.
Inside the Cubicle: CTC - Jason Fried
By Jeffrey Treem
June 20, 2006
Below are comments from Jason Fried, CEO of 37 signals (side note: Jason was a great presenter who stirred up the audience)
Small is good.
There is a tendancy to build more software, but software gets in the way most of the time.
37signals' products do less than competitors on purpose.
These views are unonventional and viewed by some as backwards, reckless, unprofessional, etc. That's fine.
Inside the Cubicle: CTC - Matthew Glotzbach
By Jeffrey Treem
June 20, 2006
Below are notes from the presentation by Matthew Glotzbach, Head of Products, Google Enterprise (emphasis is mine)
Enterprise technologies are built by the experts, for the experts. They rarely take the end-user into consideration. The innovation actually becomes more complicated.
The traditional boundaries of time, 9-5, Monday through Friday, are actually going away. The difference between work life and personal life are blurred.
The result is that we want to be able to use the same tools in business world as we do at home.
Inside the Cubicle: CTC 2006 - Mike Rhodin
By Jeffrey Treem
June 20, 2006
Here are the notes from the talk by Mike Rhodin, IBM Software Group, General Manager, Lotus Software
“Collaboration in the Age of Mashups”
Future of productivity comes from your ability to innovate
The world is becoming more and more connected, in ways we never thought of before.
In an environment where everyone is potentially your competitor, you must ask “What makes you special?”
Inside the Cubicle: CTC 2006 - John Seely Brown
By Jeffrey Treem
June 20, 2006
Today is the official beginning of the Collaborative Technologies Conference in
Boston
One might ask, why would a public relations practitioner be at a conference full of IT managers?
Well, as I have written before, I believe that communications professionals have to move beyond the traditional role that pigeonholes us as media relations people or message crafters. We have to be involved in aligning operations with business strategies. We have to communicate change and the need for it. We have to use our communications skills to drive collaboration and support innovation.
WebProNews: CTC Keynote: Thomas Malone
By Ross Mayfield
June 20, 2006
Notes from the Collaborative Technologies Conference in NYC, mirrored in the wiki, from a talk I've heard before by Thomas Malone, the author of The Future of Work -- but also with a quick video conference with Jimmy Wales while talking about Wikipedia.
ZDNet: Living a dual life - desktop and cloud
By Marc Orchant
June 14, 2006
Digg This!
David Berlind nails it in is discussion of the inexorable move to the cloud. Discussing the recent connection between spreadsheet godfather Dan Bricklin's WikiCalc and SocialText, he perfectly describes the "dual modality" many of us are operating in with an increasing number of essential web-based applications slowly but surely encroaching on our use of desktop fat clients.
ZDNet: Blogs Office Evolution: Seems to be the week for announcing big changes
By Marc Orchant
June 13, 2006
First Scoble. Now Om Malik. This seems to be the week for announcing big changes. I had planned to wait until the end of the month to announce my big change but in light of the week's events, I figured I might as well join in the fun.
Mind This: Collaborative Technologies Conference in Boston
By Lars Plougmann
June 14, 2006
Next week, I will be at the Collaborative Technologies Conference in Boston. The first CTC in New York in 2005 was a great meeting with the latest thinking in collaboration. Not only did the conference organisers, MediaLive (now CMP), stage a well-executed event, it was evident that the team felt passionately about collaboration themselves. Following the conference, a blog about collaboration was launched with contributions from MediaLive staff and authorities in the field (check out Larry Cannell asking why blogs and wikis are often mentioned together when they are very different creatures).
Portals and KM: Collaborative Technologies Conference – Boston June 20-21, 2006
By Bill Ives
June 11, 2006
Here is a good event for the Boston area. The Collaborative Technologies Conference will be at the Seaport Hotel June 20 - 22. There are many great speakers including the following that I know or have heard speak (with some of their conference bios):
Jessica Lipnack co-author of Virtual Teams (Wiley, 2000), The Age of the Network (Wiley, 1995), and co-founder and director of NetAge has been reporting on and working with networks as organizations for 25 years.
InfoQ: Collaborative Technologies Conference, Boston, June 19-22
By Deborah Hartmann
June 6, 2006
Community Agile / Topics Artifacts & Tools , Teamwork
When implementing Agile methods, teams are usually encouraged to reorganize to maximize face-to-face communication, whenever possible. For example: rather than running a team on two continents, do enough knowledge transfer to allow running two teams, one on each continent - to minimize time zone issues and other communication challenges. But even co-located teams need tools to facilitate knowledge capture and sharing - a Wiki server being a common tool used by Agile teams, both locally and organization-wide as electronic "information radiators".
Carl Tyler's Blog: State of the Real-Time Enterprise
By Carl Tyler
May 22, 2006
I will be presenting at the Collaborative Technologies Conference 09:13:51 PM
I will be presenting at the Collaborative Technologies Conference in Boston next month, and I need your help.
I will be presenting the session
The State of the Real-Time Enterprise
Collaboration Loop: CTC 2006 Video: Jason Fried, CEO of 37Signals
By Alex Dunne
June 22, 2006
A plenary address at the Collaborative Technologies Conference on Tuesday was delivered by Jason Fried, the CEO of 37Signals. His lecture was titled, "Small Is Beautiful." Here's the lecture, in its entirety.
Collaboration Loop: CTC 2006 Video: Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps of NetAge
By Alex Dunne
June 22, 2006
A plenary address at the Collaborative Technologies Conference on Tuesday was delivered by Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps of NetAge. Their lecture was titled, "Show and Tell: Collaborating in the Networked Organization." Here's the lecture, in its entirety.
Collaboration Loop: Linda Stone on Attention in an Always-On World
By Stowe Boyd
June 21, 2006
I have written extensively about Linda Stone's thoughts about continuous partial attention (CPA), and living in the always-on world (see Linda Stone: The New Millenialism, and A Chat with Linda Stone, for example).
I remain unpersuaded by Linda's thesis that CPA is a transitory phenomenon, soon to be replaced by some other, more evolved attention strategy. I believe that CPA is a return to a pre-industrial, hunter/gatherer mindset -- what anthropologists call cyclical time, a return to something earlier. Boomers may be doing a bad job of adjusting to the connected world, but I don't see that in teenagers or young adults who have been bred in this brave new world.
Collaboration Loop: How Do We Know We Are In a Knowledge Economy?
By Jonathan Spira
June 21, 2006
It seems that every time we pick up a newspaper or business journal, the term knowledge economy is being discussed. But what exactly is the knowledge economy and have we in fact migrated from an industrial economy to a knowledge economy? If so, how do we know? If not, are we somewhere on the path to a knowledge economy and if so, where along the path are we?
Collaboration Loop: CTC 2006: John Seely Brown Video
By Alex Dunne
June 21, 2006
Yesterday at the Collaborative Technologies Conference, Xerox's former Chief Scientist, John Seely Brown, delivered the opening plenary. His lecture was titled "Globalization, Innovation and Collaboration in the Networked Age." Here's the plenary, in its entirety. More of yesterday's plenaries to come, as I encode them.
Collaboration Loop: Healthgate's CEO Talks About New Collaboration Engine
By Alex Dunne
June 21, 2006
Last week, Healthgate Systems launched the Healthgate Collaborative Engine, a web-based suite of communications and content management tools targeted at the medical community. As a vertical solution, the CE addresses specific processes that are common to doctors and hospital administrators, as well as companies that work with medical professionals -- such as insurance companies. At the CTC this week, Healthgate is demonstrating CE, and I talked to Bill Reece, the Chairman, President, and CEO of HealthGate, about their new collaborative suite.
Collaboration Loop: Google's Matthew Glotzbach on Consumer Collaboration
By Stowe Boyd
June 20, 2006
Matthew Glotzbach of Google Enterprise gave a mercifully light-on-the-Powerpoint presentation at the CTC today that provides a dramatically different insight into the future of collaboration. In a nutshell, he suggests that today's workforce is dominated by a new sort of person, the self-directed innovator. This person is very different than the knowledge worker of the '80s and '90s.
