Our Social World Conference

Our Social World wants to bring business leaders into contact with visionaries and tools that are creating a new social environment, one which spans continents, timezones and cultures.
Our Social World is about enabling conversations between businesses and their customers using the new tools made possible by the WWW.

With this conference OSW wants to get businesses into blogging and wikis by giving them the oppertunity to learn about web logs and related applications.

organized by: Our Social World
date: Friday 9th September 2005
time: 8h30 – 17h30
place: Cambridge, England
location: The Moller Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK

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Speakers:

Ben Hammersley – setting the scene with a brief history of blogging from 1700 to some point in the near future.
Johnnie Moore – John Lennon said life is what happens while you’re making other plans. So lets explore what happens when we leave the script behind… will it lead to chaos or engagement? This is a certified, powerpoint-free session. Dress acausal.
Simon Phipps – Welcome to the Participation Age – Unleash your staff to join the conversation with the What, Why and How of setting up blogs.sun.com – Making a community of 30,000 employees.
Hugh Macleod – ‘Marketing Hackers’… how marketeers are going to have to act more like techies, and less like pony-tail ‘creatives’
Julian Bond – The culture of the Office Memo, Implementing OSS in large organisations and hence the difficulties in doing ‘community’ in business.
Colin Donald – The new media landscape in a world where everyone can be a media producer/distributor.
Max Niederhofer – Blogging and The Ludicity of Online Communities, relating some of the more ludic aspects within a blogging community such as 20six (which now has over 300,000 European bloggers!). User ‘play’, as in non-formalized gaming, is a key aspect of what makes communities successful (see Flickr’s history with GNE). Essentially, I’ll explain what makes blogging ‘fun’
Suw Charman – Dark Blogs: Using Blogs Behind the FirewallEuan Semple – Working In A Wired World – how the introduction of social computing changes the workplace forever.
Lee Bryant – On-line social communication specialist with a focus on knowledge development talking about negotiating language and meaning with social tagging.
Loïc Le Meur – Executive VP & Managing Director of Europe, Six Apart, the Company behind TypePad and Movable Type.
Jason Calacanis – Engadget(Building a blog business)
Simon Grice – CEO Midentity, Personal Digital Identity – the next paradigm shift
Tom Coates – BBC Radio and Music Interactive
Ross Mayfield – CEO Social Text
and others..

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