So, my highlight of last week was
having dinner with a bunch of folks who were participating in the 2006 Collaborative Technologies Conference
(CTC), which was held here in
on June 19-22.
I was invited to the dinner by Kathleen
Gilroy (CEO, Otter Group), and we had
a wonderful evening with great food (at Rendezvous) and lots
of “geek-speak” (chit-chat) together with six other people, including: Rod Boothby (Innovation Creators), Ross Mayfield (Social Text), Ian Wenig (Zoho),
Vic Nishi (XStream
Software), Stu Downes (Lotus
Collaborative Specialist), and Lars
Ploughmann (Zonoma).
I was unable to attend the
conference myself, but I heard lots of good/interesting stories about it from
the folks at dinner. For example, I heard there was a “wisdom of crowds” game
that involved two groups competing against each other collectively, in order to
determine which “crowd” worked better together (personally,
I would have thought that “crowd” versus “expert” would have been more
appropriate). Also—and I got a chuckle out of this one—apparently Stowe
Boyd informed Andrew McAfee
of the wrong date for his presentation, so they had to change the schedule
around (hmmm…I thought Stowe was an expert on this social
collaboration stuff).
There were also plenty of other
stories and “what do you do?” or “what do you think of…” questions
going around the table, but since there was good food and wine involved,
conversation also strayed on to topics like the future of
why Red Snapper is the new Black Bass.
Anyway, instead of dishing out second
hand news that I gathered from people at the dinner table, here are some really
good resources and reviews of the CTC 2006 event, including the official audio/video
recordings…
1. Official CTC 2006 Presentaitons (PDF)
- All speakers
2. Official CTC 2006 Video (WMV)
downloads:
- Jason Fried (37 Signals)
- Matthew Glotzbach (Google
- Michael Rhodin (IBM)
- John Seely Brown (former Chief
Scientist, Xerox)
- James Surowiecki (Author, The
Wisdom of Crowds)
- Tom Malone (MIT Sloan and Author, The
Future of Work)
3. Official CTC 2006 Audio (MP3)
downloads:
- Interview with Luis Solis (CEO of
Group Systems)
- Interview with Richard Lusk (CEO)
and Jnan Dash (CTO) (Foldera)
- Jana Eggers (GM of Intuit's
Quickbase)
- Reid Conrad (Near-Time Systems)
5. Rod
Boothby’s concise comments about the people he met/interacted with at CTC
6. A comprehensive
overview of various sessions at CTC by Jeffrey Treem (Edelman)
7. Lars
Ploughmann’s seriously cool mindmaps of the CTC presentations
8. Stu Downe’s take on CTC 2006
9. Ross
Mayfield’s thoughts on John Seely Brown’s talk at CTC 2006
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