On the heels of a Chris Messina’s Status Update from 1940, here’s another story of how ultimately familiar this emergent use of Twitter-as-global-network is.
Last week after Web 2.0 I spent a sunny Autumn morning wandering around in Brooklyn, including a stop at a favorite thrift store in Williamsburg. Pouring through their collections of old photos and postcards, a friend found something rather strange.
I got a chance to speak at Web 2.0 last week about designing social software and the role of anthropology and sociology that process. It’s basically a paired down version of the piece at Core77, so if you read that through don’t expect see anything new 
The experience was a great one for me personally — I haven’t done many speeches to that size or critical an audience — but I do find myself wondering what the benefits of giving a keynote at a conference ultimately are. I know this is a trite subject for those who frequent the conference circuit but it still gives me pause…
Yesterday I had the honor of speaking at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco, and before my session I caught a pretty rich dialog on the main stage between Andrew McAfee and some of the leadership behind Booz Allen Hamilton’s Hello, a home-grown intranet not unlike IDEO’s Tube.
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Come on in. The party’s just getting started, which is a little awkward for everyone. The good news: the uncomfortable state of beginning doesn’t last forever, and it’s the early visitors that get to play the biggest role in shaping what this becomes.
If you’re visiting from the Core77 article, it probably won’t surprise you to hear that this is an experimental work in process. Continue reading →
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