Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum With Coveritlive

February 23, 2009 By

CoveritliveOn Tuesday, February 24th (Sydney time), I’ll be blogging live from the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum (E2EF) in Sydney.

It’s ambitious, perhaps even a little rash, to promise this, because on previous efforts to do live blogging form conferences I have struck a few challenges, including getting the technology right.

I’m confident that this time I’m better prepared. I’m even taking a power cord so that I have a better chance of getting through the day without battery problems.

Topics for the day include:

  • Implementation: practical guidance on how to build a case and drive value creation
  • Governance and policies: managing risks and benefits
  • Business value: how to drive efficiency , productivity and innovation
  • Mobile participation: how mobile workflow is increasing productivity
  • Social networks: policies for Facebook and implementing internal social networks
  • Managing change: supporting collaboration and user adoption

I’m using Coveritlive. I’ve seen it used by others to very good effect. According to the instructions on the Coveritlive site, a view window should pop up when you Click Here

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I certainly don’t expect to provide anything like full coverage of the event,  but I am taking a Flip camera and plan to get some instant interviews from speakers and others and post some or all of those here.

You can read more about the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum here.

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Metaverse Journal Partners with Enterprise 2.0 Thinkfest

February 15, 2008 By

Photo by OwnMoment

Luna Park – For More Than Fun

For generations, the Big Dipper and other rides and entertainments at Sydney’s Luna Park (“Just for Fun”) echoed with the delighted, sometimes happily terrified screams and yells of children and people otherwise known as adults. When you walked in under the enormous teeth of the Big Face, you knew you were leaving the cares of the everyday world behind for some fantasy and fun.

The fact that Luna Park, now with conferencing facilities as well as amusements, will be the venue of next Tuesday’s Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum does not mean that the presentations and deliberations will be anything but serious – and seriously business-focused.

But in an interview I recorded last night, David Holloway, Editor-in-Chief of The Metaverse Journal, alluded to Luna Park’s iconic value for Sydneysiders and visitors as a place of fantasy and escape, which he related to perceptions in some corporate circles when the subject of Second Life or, more generally, virtual worlds, comes up.

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David Holloway

David and The Metaverse Journal are official partners for the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum. And IBM, a company very actively engaged with the development of business applications for virtual worlds, is the Platinum Sponsor for the event.

Writer, musician and composer, David has a Master’s in Nursing and is currently working on an MBA.

David Holloway, with multiple award-winning composer musician David Hirschfelder, after an interview in 2006: photo by Graham Body, used here with permission (David Holloway is on the left, the less hirsute of the two Davids).

Interview Highlights

In our half hour conversation we touched on:

  • the use of Second Life (SL) for US Presidential candidates, notably in support of Hillary Clinton’s campaign
  • Australian telco Telstra’s international success in sustained development of its SL initiative
  • IBM’s immersion in Second Life and partnership in other virtual world developments
  • realistic timeframes for return on investment to be measured in years
  • the challenge of finding developers who can deliver an appropriate product
  • the promising Brisbane, Australia newcomer (no, not the new Prime Minister), OpenLife
  • China’s embrace of and serious investment in virtual worlds
  • corporate skepticism and fear about virtual worlds
  • a highly amusing (well, for me anyway) and instructive example of a health-related metaverse development

Click here to download…

This interview is also posted on my new Social Media Show site and is the second in a series relating to the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum to be held in Sydney on February 19, 2008.

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