When I proposed podcast jam six weeks ago, I didn’t really know what I was getting myself into. This project has overrun my life and my hard drive. I have podcasts everywhere.
Next week I’ll write up lessons learned after I dig myself out from under all the work that’s landed on my desk since the jam began. But for now, let’s keep on jamming!
Yesterday we heard from Elisa Camahort and Tara Hunt who were speaking at the Office 2.0 conference. Elisa reported on Esther Dyson’s keynote interview and Tara joined us at the end of the day to reflect on how enterprise focused the conference seemed. She noticed that her grass-roots perspective wasn’t what many of the attendees had come to hear. Tara suggested the book The Starfish and The Spider for anyone who wants to think about organizations getting things done without the hierarchical bureaucracy that seems so opposed to 2.0 technologies.
If you found the Office 2.0 conference or coverage to be too heavily enterprise focused for your tastes, no worries, you can get another perspective at the podcast jam. Today’s podcasts are interviews, representing user experience/design and the nonprofit world:
- Leisa Reichelt interviewed Flickr designer George Oates, covering such diverse topics as building community, customizing workflows, and the flower-covered meadow that is Web 2.0. I think I need a Flickr pic to go along with that, but frankly, my dears, I am too tired to find one.
- I interviewed Judi Sohn of the Colorectal Cancer Coalition on her organization’s implementation of Salesforce.com for fundraising and donor management.
Tomorrow we wrap up with three short bites to get you thinking:
- I will share my ideas about collaboration and why it’s not an unalloyed good.
- Leisa offers an argument against the minimalist approach to web functionality in “Less Is Not Enough”
- And Stowe Boyd challenges those who say that Web 2.0 is at heart the same as Web 1.0.
