Our three podcasts today really pumped me up. You could get an Education 2.0 by faithfully listening to each podcast in our jam (if I do say so myself). We started off with Geeky Mom Laura Blankenship covering the very real barriers to *2.0 adoption in higher education. Then future thinker Ken Camp told us that VoIP is already essentially dead as a service–look for unifed communications bundled into 2.0 technologies instead of siloed offerings requiring client-side installs like Skype. Finally, Brenda Michelson of Elemental Links suggests a practical path towards Enterprise 2.0 in the form of an IT toolkit consisting of an Excel front end pulling from a service-oriented architecture back end. Excel? Desktop apps? That’s not Office 2.0, is it? You know what that is: realistic, feasible, doable. End users like Excel because they can develop their own custom analysis and database applications in it.
Tomorrow the actual Office 2.0 Conference starts with a keynote interview of Esther Dyson. Assuming the internet access works, we’ll have live reports in the jam chat room on the keynote from Elisa Camahort. That’s at 8 am pacific, 9 am mountain time, 10 am central, 11 am eastern… I’ll let Leisa work out Greenwich Mean Time.
In the afternoon, Tara Hunt will report into chat with her experiences of the conference. Check into the podcast jam chat at 5 pm pacific time to hear from Tara.
Throughout the day, if you are at the conference or otherwise have an interest in Office 2.0 topics and find yourself with a free moment and an internet connection, stop by the chat to see what’s happening. You never know who you’ll run into or what you might hear about. I met Craig Cmehil of SAP in the chat room on Sunday and am still waiting in suspense as to exactly what he’s demo’ing tomorrow.
Of course we’ll have podcasts too, from Sandy Kemsley, Leisa Reichelt, Scott Mark, and Michael Coté.
If you want to do some reading about what we’ve learned in doing the podcast jam, check out Leisa’s comments on the experience of creating a podcast and Amy’s observation that every conference should have an OPML reading list.
