So the jam launched today with an awesome podcast by Richard MacManus. I was too excited about my interview with Rosemary Stasek to hold it back for later in the week. Eric Severson’s discussion of the rules of Office 2.0 in the context of content management and XML single-sourcing provided a solid introduction to the enterprise perspective with insight into what’s missing, so his contribution rounded out Day 1.
Tomorrow, we’ve got another amazing and enlightening set of podcasts:
- Geeky Mom Laura Blankenship offers a reality check on Office 2.0 in higher education. She identifies three ways in which the Office 2.0 paradigm doesn’t fit with the university environment. Her points hold beyond the educational setting, so if you’re an Office 2.0 app developer, you’ll want to pay close attention.
- Ken Camp of Digital Common Sense talks about Voice over IP, IM, Video and Presence. Ken’s extremely experienced in the communications landscape and is a great resource if you want to know what’s the best tool for a particular communications job. (Now everyone’s going to bug you, Ken, sorry!)
- Business-driven architect Brenda Michelson of Elemental Links suggests an IT 2.0 toolkit that combines an Excel-based front end with a service-oriented architecture to support do-it-yourself business mashups.
And still waiting in the wings, we have podcasts from Stowe Boyd on the Pew Internet Study, Greg Olsen on Going Bedouin with Office 2.0, and an interesting conversation about moving Web 2.0 apps behind the firewall from Michael Coté and Scott Mark. That last one includes a bonus made-up word, so listen closely, and tell me what you think it means.
Did you know that Stowe Boyd is such a master networker that you could have gotten a $30 discount on Office 2.0 conference registration just by entering his name? Wow. Some day I hope that invoking my name will be worth thirty bucks. For now, I’ll have to be content with hanging out with my sock puppet in the Office 2.0 Podcast Jam chat room.
