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Social Network Media Summit: Business Blogs and The Engelbart
Hypothesis

On behalf of the San Francisco and Silicon Valley Cluster sponsors,
it is with great pleasure to post this update on, "Next Practices
Series: Business Blogs." Your local team has done a terrific job or
orchestrating this event. They have even added a special day, "The
Engelbart Hypothesis: Beyond Collaboration to Boosting Collective
IQ," specifically for community or practice leaders and social
network media (wikis, blogs, CoPs, enterprise RSS, podcasts, SNS,
etc.) stakeholders.


Social Network Media Summit: http://www.kmcluster.com/sfo/


Social Media are considered by many a "Disruptive Innovation" for
communities of practice, enterprise collaboration and knowledge
management.


These tandem events are an excellent, practical, non-vendor, non-
commercial way to begin the successful adoption of Social Network
Media for yourself and your organizations.


"Forrester believes that blogging will grow in importance… Blogs
will become marketing vehicles…Blogs build strong, efficient
teams. Forrester envisions the day when new employees on their first
day will be handed a sheet of paper with their phone number, email
address – and a URL for their blog." Charlene Li, Blogging:
Bubble or Big Deal?, Forrester Research, Inc., November, 2004.



Day One of your Summit is "Business Blogs: Next Practices." It
covers independent, non-vendor, case-based advice on the best
approaches to implementations, rules of the road, communities,
success stories and Next Practices for individuals and enterprise
blogs.

http://www.kmcluster.com/sfo/SFO_Summer_2005_BfB.htm

Event participants receive a full license for an electronic copy
of "Business Blogs: A Practical Guide," and all of the important
case studies, implementation guidelines and research.

http://www.businessblogguide.com/



Day Two of your summit is a World Café with the theme "The
Engelbart Hypothesis: Beyond Collaboration to Building Collective
IQ."

In 1962 visionary Dr. Douglas Engelbart wrote a paper "Augmenting
Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework" that lead to many of the
innovations taken for granted today in modern social computing:
hypertext, networked collaborative computing, multiple windows,
videoconferencing, the integration of word processing and graphics,
and his most famous invention, the computer mouse.

Engelbart's main idea, to augment the Collective IQ, has not been
fully explored. We will present an overview of The Engelbart
Hypothesis, present case studies of how Englebart's work is being
applied, and ask participants to participate in exploring what long
term and short term steps we can make to improve our individual and
collective capabilities. This is an important process for you to
develop the capabilities for leading success social computing
initatives.

http://www.kmcluster.com/sfo/SFO_Summer_2005.htm

These tandem events are an excellent, practical, non-vendor, non-
commercial way to begin the successful adoption of Social Network
Media for yourself and your organizations. Business Blogs and The
Engelbart Hypothesis are designed by your local San Francisco and
Silicon Valley sponsors to operate together and as a follow-up to
the NVHA conference theme. They will give you the methods and
techniques to create wining implementations. While desgined
together, separate registration is available.

PayPal (preferred): http://www.kmcluster.com/sfo/PayPal-Summit.htm

Secure form: http://www.kmcluster.com/sfo/Reg_SFO_Summit.htm


Note: Cluster communities are not-for-profit, non-vendor and non-
commercial. Network sponsorship fees are for administration,
sustainability, speaker travel, meals, venue, equipment and other
network expenses.

Testimonials: http://www.kmcluster.com/testimonials.htm

Cordially,

/jtm/

John Maloney
IM/Skype: jheuristic
ID: http://public.2idi.com/=john.maloney