Archive for March, 2007

Any questions for Neville Hobson?

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tom
on March 29, 2007
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Cross-posted from my main blog - apologies if you see this twice.

Neville Hobson is co-host of For Immediate Release, one of the better podcasts on the net at the moment and one I try not to miss.

Neville is a big proponent of the virtues of Second Life and is heavily involved in a company called Crayon, which specialises in helping customers make sense of all the new media out there. Crayon held their launch in Second Life.

I will be interviewing Neville tomorrow morning (March 30th) for a podcast here. If you have any questions you would like me to put to him, please leave them in the comments of this post.

Ross Mayfield podcast

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tom
on March 12, 2007
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Episode 52 of the PodLeaders show - 39 mins 25 secs

My guest on the show this week is Ross Mayfield. Ross is the CEO and co-founder of SocialText - one of the leading Enterprise wiki applications.

I invited Ross to come on the show to talk about wikis in general and Socialtext’s offerings in this space.

Here are the questions I asked Ross and the times I asked them:

Ross, can you tell me a little about SocialText, how did SocialText come about, what brought you into this space? - 0:42

There are now many competitors in the wiki space - how did this come to be and how are you dealing with it? - 03:19

Neither the SocialText Unplugged nor the SocialCalc are available in the main product, is that the case? - 08:18

Questions from readers:

Dennis Howlett
What’s the spread of take-up of SocialText? And what does a typical SocialText user ‘look’ like? - 11:12

John Collins
Enterprise 2.0 - what does it mean and is it a useful term to use? - 14:25

Ina O’Murchú
Where do you see the future lying with all the social networks evolving especially with regards to their interoperability? - 20:33

John Breslin
What do you think about Semantic Wikis - 22:55

Paul Watson
how do I migrate 1000 pages of my Wikimedia powered wiki to Socialtext. - 27:23

Do you see a lot of resistance to the use of Wikis within organisations, and if so, how do you overcome that? - 30:32

You wrote on Twitter that you are finding that your blog is becoming a slog - are you starting to suffer from “blog fade”? - 34:54

Unfortunately there was a lot of echo in parts of this podcast - consequently I had to cut out large swathes of it including a question from Bernie Goldbach, my final question and half of the answer to Ina’s question :-(

Download the entire interview here
(18.1mb mp3)

Any questions for Ross Mayfield?

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tom
on March 6, 2007
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Tomorrow afternoon I’ll be interviewing Ross Mayfield, co-founder and CEO of Socialtext for a podcast on PodLeaders.com.

Socialtext makes enterprise social software for collaboration - i.e. Wikis, for corporate customers mostly.

If you have any questions you’d like me to put to Ross, please feel free to leave them in the comments of this post.