PodLeaders - Thought Leaders podcast

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)