The Common Discourse and You

Wavin’ at you!
I got the embedded wave to work on my new Wave page! Finally!! I’ve been playing with it for a couple of weeks (off and on) with no success, but I upgraded both Wordpress and wavr (the plugin I’m using to make this work) and today it finally appeared (only for those with Wave accounts, I think…). The real trick to it was getting the right google wave URL (in my case it consisted of id=”googlewave.com!w+2_yvJou8O”). When you copy the URL from Google, it urlencodes that + sign to a %252B, so you have to change that to +, remove everything before the googlewave.c

The week in Tweets
*makes note to auto-send @stevelawson emails randomly throughout the week* # @MegCanada hot tea, honey, maybe some lemon and the whiskey of your choice. Drink enough of it and you'll forget you have a cold! in reply to MegCanada # GWave invites – DM me with your preferred email address if you still don't have one, but want one. 10 left…

Social Media in the Enterprise – ITEC Lunch session
*SOCIAL MEDIA IS NOT A TREND*- it’s a fundamental change in the way companies reach their audiences. Overview of social media landscape – what tools are out there. Blogs – lots out there, becoming mainstream news (Huffington Post); case study about the Direct2Dell site that came directly from a blog post that coined the term “dell hell” and was picked up within 2 days by NY Times and Business Week. Microblog – Twitter has 4.5 Million users; uses of Twitter: live discussion, reinforce your brand, promote content, speed linking, content syndication (hi everyone who is reading this because I tweeted my n

IT Disaster Planning -ITEC
Now I’m in (in Theater 1, which has wireless…) an IT disaster planning session. He’s starting off discussing BCDR (BC? – DR = Disaster Response) and his company’s (Starfire Technologies) experience in creating them. To begin, he discussed the different types of disasters that could befall us (small, medium and large “never-happen” disasters). Medium disasters are the ones we should be planning and testing for. Smaller ones happen often enough (accidental email deletions, etc.) that we should be in practice. Medium disasters (server failures, etc) should be planned for. Large disasters include facil

Practical Web 2.0 Tools For Business – ITEC
TJ O’Connor led this session on using Web 2.0 tools inside the enterprise. He mentioned a couple of tools I was unfamiliar with – Clearspace (which has apparently become SBS since he created his slides) and Present.ly -and then talked about using blogs, microblogs (that’s where Present.ly came in), IM (we use Gmail’s chat for just about anything Present.ly could do, but I appreciated the pointer anyway!), RSS Feeds and Wikis. He finished by talking about how to get 2.0 tools adopted in the Enterprise. (*foster grass-roots adoption, encourage emergent behaviors, combine with top-down s