Meetings, conferences and web collaboration applications
In a recent blog post, online marketing guru Seth Godin proposed a new standard for meetings and conferences. He based his proposal on factors like oil reaching $130 a barrel, increased security measures at airports adding two to three more hours to business trips and online conversation and video conferencing tools getting better and better all the time. Godin asserted that, given today’s business realities,
- a speaker owes an audience that travels to engage in person: more than they could get by just reading the transcript.
- a conference organizer owes the attendees: surprise, juxtaposition, drama, engagement, souvenirs and just possibly, excitement.
- if you’re a knowledge worker, your boss shouldn’t make you come to the (expensive) office every day unless there’s something there that makes it worth your trip.
User Experience researcher Dan Rockwell picked up and expanded on Godin’s original post on his own blog, where he cited the rise of collaborative web apps as another factor that will affect and change meetings, and mentioned Octopz as an example.
The latest collaborative app we’ve used at work is called Octopz, and ya know it was pretty decent. Wyatt at work seems to give me these kinds of mini fire drills, we need to find a cool app fast that does x, y, z, p, d, q and so forth. We landed on Octopz after trying PalBee, Brio and a few other flex like apps that basically help bring people, web cams and content to talk. You’d think just use WebEx right? I feel like thats pretty bland and I dunno, I’m always on the hunt for the newer stuff.
Update: ZDNet.com’s Oliver Marks also blogged about the high cost of oil, more expensive and longer business trips and the potential impact on business and collaborative technologies.
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