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Corante Symposium on Social Architecture Wrap-up

I'd like to see conferences like this make more use of the available social tools to create pre and post conference opportunities for interaction and learning.

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It's probably best to just quickly state likes and dislikes about the Corante Symposium on Social Architecture:
  • Likes:
    • The cocktail party the night before at the Harvard Faculty Club was great.
    • Lunch was extremely good, a whole table of people who just wanted to talk on topics of interest.
    • The general quality of attendees, in particular the people who were not speakers.
  • Dislikes:
    • After lunch, I thought the explicit exclusion from participation of people sitting in the back section of the auditorium was ridiculous. The fact that the exclusion was repeated by two marquee speakers was just over the top.
    • The level of audience participation was good, but might have been even better.

I really learned some things at lunch and the cocktail party. I really liked the people I talked to and their openness to conversation. Now, let me spend a moment detailing how I might fix some of the things I did not like.

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Bud posted this on November 15, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (1)

How Will the Social Web Change Media?

When you run a conference where people pay to attend, don't be a snob to them.

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Still at the Corante Symposium on Social Architecture. Intriguingly, JD Lassica starts of suggesting that we re-invoke the Liz Lawley rule, namely that people who want to participate need to come to the front of the room. Remarkably, this comes after Liz's observation that there is only so much room at the front.

Do these guys realize how they come off? Clearly not, there is no feedback loop. Maybe, they just do not care. After all, they are the ones not paying the conference fee while the rest of us are. We are here to participate with them, not the other way around.

I'm not sure I entirely endorse the view I just expressed, but it certainly goes through my mind as I sit here. I think both JD and Liz would just like to be closer to people. Why don't they walk into the audience? Frankly, when you are creating a market, you need to go to the people as much as you tell them to come to you.

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Great Lunch with Kaliya Hamlin and Kevin Marks

I think getting to know Kaliya Hamlin means getting her to exhaust her array of possible business cards on you.

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I started out with Kevin Marks and shared with him my misgivings about his session, namely that there was no there there. I did point out to him that he had succeeded in getting me to contribute to the IRC room by putting it on screen, something I never do.

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Is Social Software a Mirror or a Lens?

Humorously, Liz Lawley's greatest contribution to this talk is to exclude everybody but the inner circle who is surrounding her.

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Liz Lawley is leading this. She notes that there is a tendency for people in the blogosphere to just hang out with birds of a feather. She also notes there is a core group that comes to all of these events and some new people. Liz is an absolute jerk by demanding that people who want to participate come to the front half of the auditorium. Hey, not my fault the auditorium is set up the way it is. Unimpressive and overly exclusive, paying to go to a conference and having someone tell you you are not part of their space.

Tina Sharkey and a guy (Joe ?) who used to run Friendster are also on the panel. Tina remarks that AOL wants to facilitate meta-social interaction (people figuring out how to interact and making connections vs. talking on topic). Joe remarks that people in different cultures use the services differently.

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How Do We Scale Meaning

You don't scale meaning by putting an IRC chat window on the presentation screen during your talk. You ablate meaning.

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Hosted by Kevin Marks and Mary Hodder. Kevin is making the case for why we have centralized top-down control in communications. There are just too many voices.

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Is Business Ready for Social Software

To achieve its highest value, social software has to exist outside of the corporation.

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Participants are: Stowe Boyd, Seth Goldstein, and Kaliya Hamlin. The central question seems to be why is business adopting social software now? Stowe Boyd thinks there is huge potential for businesses to transform themselves. My question is this: do existing institutions want to change? Or is it that new institutions will arise?

Seth Goldstein seems to think it is the API. How many people know about APIs? I don't know of any managers who are thinking about APIs. My wife who now uses social software does not know about APIs or any of the mash-ups they enable. She just likes to communicate. She also likes being able to look back on past conversations

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At Corante Symposium on Social Architecture

Is this conference a new old boys network? Breaking the temporal barrier to participation might help that.

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I'm at the Corante Symposium on Social Architecture being held today at the Berkman Center. Things are rather informal and plans are evolving as it moves forward. I think this format is fine for people in town or nearby but hard for people coming from out of town.

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