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DemoCampToronto11 - open to any?

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

I agree with Rohan: last night’s democamp failed to live up to expectations.The demos

The best demo was indeed Sunir’s demonstration of the Design Bibliography wiki, which had some pretty funky gadgets to support the application-specific workflow. Yet as I’ve said to Sunir before, there are plenty of wikis out there (40 new *wiki*.(com|org|net) sites are […]

Are you wiki consulting?

Monday, November 20th, 2006

It seems to me that there exists many different types of people doing “wiki consulting”. They differ by:
Background/goal:

Some are technologists, doing installs, writing plugins, etc.
Some are cultural anthropologists or statistians employed to provide insight on social interactions
Some are management looking to reduce the costs of running the enterprise
Some are HR types, looking to get better […]

Resuming Toronto Wiki Tuesday

Monday, November 20th, 2006

Its been a few months since our last TorontoWikiTuesday event. As you can see,by  averaging 12 people, we’ve never had tremendous turnouts.
Speaking with Seb Paquet last week I was stunned to hear that Montreal Wiki Night frequently has turnouts exceeding 50 people.
Its clear we need a new strategy. I suspect a pub venue (while mandatory […]

Web 2.0 is about participation, more than personalisation

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

I was in a conversation at Toronto’s Enterprise 2.0 Camp on Tuesday night with a guy in telecoms (sorry if someone knows his name please let me know) who said for him that Web 2.0 is personalisation. He sketched the following:
When I click a button on my phone to fetch a cab it would know […]