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Curiouser and Curiouser! on stes http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic stes Copyright 2006 Matt Mower Squib/0.1 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb Cybaea star over STES Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:26:31 +0100 Was chatting with <a href="http://www.cybaea.net/">Allan Engelhardt of Cybaea</a> in #kmtalk about promoting the <a href="http://www.kmcluster.com/lon/LON_Summer_2004.htm">Social Tools for Enterprises Symposium</a> and he not only had the great idea of registering some <a href="https://adwords.google.com/select/">Google Adwords</a> but went ahead and paid to do it.  You're a gentleman and a scholar sir!  Many thanks. http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002336.html STES promos Thu, 17 Jun 2004 22:29:57 +0100 <a href="http://www.socialtext.net/stes/index.cgi">We're</a> still looking for ways to promote the Social Tools for Enterprises Symposium being held here in London on July 12th.  <a href="http://www.cybaea.net/">Allan</a> has been great setting up Google AdWords and now we're offering an early bird discount for those who <a href="http://www.kmcluster.com/lon/LON_Summer_2004.htm">register</a> by July 1st! http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002345.html STES writeup on Social Software Weblog Fri, 18 Jun 2004 13:54:18 +0100 <blockquote><a href="http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/entry/9894671702491102/">Social Tools for Enterprises Symposium in London</a>. I was IM chatting with Matt Mower recently and he reminded me that the <a href="http://www.socialtext.net/stes/index.cgi">Social Tools for Enterprises Symposium</a> (STES) is coming up very soon (Monday, July 12, 2004) and so I promised that I would blog a reminder. Yesterday in my tip jar I received another reminder from Allan to blog about the STES and so here is an endorsement in Allans words: <blockquote> <a href="http://www.socialtext.net/stes/"><img alt="stes_banner" src="http://www.weblogsinc.com/common/images/5618373282760240.GIF?0.9422719571363751" align="right" border="0" height="180" hspace="4" vspace="4" width="120"></a> Matt Mower has just announced an <a href="http://matt.blogs.it/2004/06/17.html#a1501">Early Bird Discount</a> for people who <a href="http://www.kmcluster.com/lon/LON_Summer_2004.htm">register</a> before July 1, 2004. The agenda with speakers is available on the <a href="http://www.kmcluster.com/lon/LON_Summer_2004.htm">Symposium web site</a> and it looks like it will be a cracking event. Top thought leaders and expert practitioners from the business, consulting and academic worlds will introduce social tools in the context of how they can be used within large organisations and demonstrate the positive changes they can effect. <a href="http://www.kmcluster.com/lon/LON_Summer_2004.htm">Register</a> now. </blockquote> If you will be in or around London in the July 12th timeframethis is a NOT TO BE MISSED event! The presenters include: <ul> <li>Stowe BoydReady for the Enterprise? </li><li>Euan SempleWorking In A Wired World </li><li>Marc EisenstadtKnowledge Workers: Maps, Enhanced Presence, Instant Messaging </li><li>Phil WolffUnderstanding the Payback: A workshop to create Aha! Moments </li><li>David GurteenSocial Software Cafe </li> </ul> Dont forget to register before July 1, 2004 to catch the early bird discount. (:= [<a href="http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/">The Social Software Weblog</a>] </blockquote> Great write up, thanks Judith, and thanks for making the <a href="http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/">Social Software Weblog</a> such a great resource (just compiling the <a href="http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/entry/9817137581524458/">meta list</a> is a job in itself!) You've also highlighted a snafu on my part.  <a href="http://www.socialtext.net/stes/index.cgi?lee_bryant">Lee Bryant</a> doesn't appear on the programme (although he is on the <a href="http://www.socialtext.net/stes/index.cgi">Wiki</a>).  I'm fixing that up (with apologies to Lee for any confusion caused.) Over the next couple of days I'll be adding more in-depth on the programme.  We've got some great sessions planned and I want everyone to know about it! http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002351.html STES weblog launched Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:42:27 +0100 <img src="http://paolo.evectors.it/myImages/stesMinilogo.gif">Today we launched the <a href="http://stes.evectors.com/">STES weblog</a>.  In the coming weeks we hope this will be a great resource for learning about the event and the excellent group who will be leading our sessions. http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002373.html Mon, 05 Jul 2004 22:15:06 +0100 In <a href="http://www.blogtalk.net/">BlogTalk</a> 2.0 <a href="http://randgaenge.net/">Thomas</a> & crew have, once again, brought together a lot of interesting people & wherever possible conversations are flourishing as evidenced by tonights get together. It was good to meet <a href="http://www.dijest.com/aka/">Phil</a> again after a year and to meet <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0100875/">Mikel</a> for the first time, especially as his talk prompted lots of interesting ideas we might look at for <a href="http://www.evectors.com/itkcollector/">K-Collector</a>. After a day where I had felt very tired and jaded I found the atmosphere quite reviving. I had the pleasure of dining with <a href="http://paolo.evectors.it/">Paolo</a>, <a href="http://www.markbernstein.org/">Mark Bernstein</a>, <a href="http://www.sumofmyparts.com/blog/">Stephanie Hendrick</a>, and <a href="http://blog.humlab.umu.se/therese">Therese Örnberg</a>. Mark gave a very interesting keynote this morning which provoked lots of questions for me. Stephanie & Therese gave, I think, the most stylish presentation of the day (including an amusing near-death audioblog to end) and their discussion of presence and spaces was stimulating. From my perspective a happy coincidence that we all ended up together. We had an interesting discussion about a range of topics spanning language, blogging, literary discourse, topics, flame wars, comments & trackbacks, software tools and how you build them, tinderbox, Dave Allen, and test first development. Taking antibiotics means I cannot drink alchohol so my opinions whilst maybe better formed were far less robust than usual & I was open to colonization ;-) I got persuaded that comments are bad and that even trackback requires considerable architectural revision to work properly. Mark's suggestion of making trackback default to being private (i.e. you get a file of trackbacks and you decide what, if anything, to do with them) seems to be a good one. I think this can be assisted by some sort of intelligent filtering of trackback contents & authorship to help you decide about those you do & don't want to handle. I think emulating the LinkedIn FOAFOAFOAFOAF network model could be useful in this regard. Also, based on comments by Stephanie and Mark, I have finally concluded that I must do something in K-Collector for the <a href="http://blog.mathemagenic.com/">Lilia's</a> and <a href="http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/">Jim McGee's</a> of this world who used (and maybe still cling to) <a href="http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=livetopics&btnG=Search">liveTopics</a>. I think that part of my problem has been misunderstanding where they are coming from. liveTopics, for me, was a stepping stone towards a larger vision which, at that time, I couldn't achieve. But for them it was actually what they were looking for. No wonder then that I've had a hard time convincing them that K-Collector is better. I haven't quite worked out the answer yet but I think it may be as simple as offering some kind of discriminator where you can choose whether K-Collector should default to showing you only your own work, or the work of the community as a whole. We may even have enough smarts in the database to do this without requiring additional work but I'll have to get some clear space (i.e. after <a href="http://stes.evectors.com/">STES</a>) to think this through properly. http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002398.html Lee Bryant on weblogs to build communities where people help each Tue, 06 Jul 2004 10:17:51 +0100 <a href="http://www.headshift.com/moments.cfm">Lee Bryant</a> is giving what I think is the best presentation of this conference.  Plenty of real, credible, user experience being presented to demonstrate some powerful points.  I'm really pleased we have Lee involved with <a href="http://stes.evectors.com/">STES</a> next week.  The event is going to be very conversational in nature (think Late Night with Letterman) so we'll have a great opportunity to dive into the details. http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002403.html