Comments on: Social Networking for Business – More details on Conference (Jan 2008)

By: Dave Mc Farlane

Dave Mc Farlane — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:16:48 +0000

Hiya,

I’m interested, if you could let me know where and when, I’ll be there

Thank you

Regards, Dave

By: Johnny - LCEB

Johnny - LCEB — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:05:54 +0000

Hi Damien,

When is this? I would like to attend.

Johnny

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:20:13 +0000

Any news on this Damien?

By: Marco ten Vaanholt

Marco ten Vaanholt — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:54:55 +0000

If you are interested in the Consumer to Consumer space, or even the Music business to consumer space, facebook and my space are good places to start looking at their platforms of collaboration. If you are interested to understand what happens.. there will be a web2summit in Berlin later this year where all those companies will be talking about their business models… http://www.web2summit.com. I just went to the SFO venue… pitty it is by invitation only… Both the consumer space as well as the business space are changing… I concur with what Dennis says above.

By: Brendan Hughes

Brendan Hughes — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:07:34 +0000

Damien. From the perspective of someone focused on b2c from a large company I think you’ve hit the nail with this conference. If that’s who you’re after then I think you’ll have a full house. I think there are definately lessons to be learned from the big organisations’ internal use of social networks, but it would be great to see some externally focused case-studies too.

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:54:40 +0000

Don’t know what happened re: double posting of part of my last diatribe – must be me…

Damien – what *you* are interested in (or I for that matter) and what *might* be interesting are not necessarily one and the same thing. Putting ‘business’ in a title has meaning and it is in that context that I made the suggestions/remarks that I did.

Internal is a misnomer – SAP’s SDN network is 950K people. 90+% are external developers and other types. Same at BPX. Check: http://www.sdn.sap.com

Sun/IBM etc, a lot is in the public domain.

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:47:32 +0000

Damien,

I didn’t call your conference lame.

You hadn’t responded to Dennis’ suggestions so I was merely adding to them in case you were interested in following that line.

By: keith bohanna

keith bohanna — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:53:25 +0000

All this stuff happens on two levels and they run in parallel but with very different dynamics. Two different audiences and good not to confuse the two.

Run with yours as you say Damien and let multinational enterprises have their own day

keith

By: Damien

Damien — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:23:46 +0000

Tom,
I think there is definitely a good opportunity to organise an Enterprise level conference on Social Networking/Social Computing/Social whatever, not just for Ireland but for probably the whole of Europe. I have zero interest in something like this though and Accenture’s, SAP’s or IBM’s walled off Intranet 2.0 initiatives, rebadged as social networks also don’t interest me.

My “lame” conference will continue with the same structure.

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 11:53:00 +0000

Damien, the Accenture example that Dennis referenced was discussed in For Immediate Release back in April (http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/index.php?/weblog/comments/the_hobson_holtz_report_podcast_234_april_23_2007/).

IBM also has some interesting stuff going on – not sure who would be good to talk to there but Mathias Zeller in Adobe (http://www.matthiaszeller.com/blog/) is an interesting guy in this space.