The Future for Collaboration

& Social Computing

Geoffrey Bock, Lead Analyst for Collaboration& Moderator

November 28, 2007

A Practitioners’ Panel

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Today’s Line-up

Jeffrey Beir, Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners

Lee Buck, CTO, Near–Time

Bryant Shea, Director, Content Management, Molecular

David Weinberger, Fellow, Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society

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The Context for Today’s Panel

A plausible business situation

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Kinangop Global:An Enterprise 2.0 Opportunity?

Collaborative computing venture Private communities

among business partners

Initial wins in high tech manufacturing

Community members share design requirements, manufacturing specifica-tions, delivery schedules, etc. over the Web

Company is looking for new strategies to expand beyond shared workspaces & multimedia wiki capabilities

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