For those that know me, I love maps. If you have seen my home office you'll see photo's of our home from the air, topographical maps, and satellite images of places in my life. Years ago, Microsoft created TerraServer as a showcase for SQL Server. TerraServer let you view a large part of North America by satellite. I was thrilled. Funny that now its so commonplace that I can view anyplace on the planet as it appears from space by visiting a handful of consumer sites.

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I was thrilled to have been asked to speak at a TiE event last night. Great crowd, thoughtful discussion. The topic was "Broadband 2.0: where are the opportunities for new companies in the Boston area?". As a company that has recently received funding and relocated its head office to the Boston area, I suppose I was a fresh perspective.

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Wow, not to shabby when you consider a large part of our dev team is from the University of Waterloo. I think we have the right people thinking about Enterprise Social Media then.

http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?id=idgml-b6039765-7357-4f6b&Portal=e92e3ad5-e795-42e5-a1a7-2949dfb40789 Š‚=229066

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I'm the first to admit we do not exploit our application enough on the public side of our site. Internally, we do some really good things. In fact its pretty competitive as to what team can use iUpload Customer Conversation System in the most interesting way. We want everyone on staff to understand that enterprise social media is more than just blogs and wiki's. That being said we got a pretty negative comment recently and let it through. My dilemma is this...

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I'm not sure what changed.. but Facebook has gone crazy amongst my friends. It seems specific to Microsoft people. Many of you know I was an employee of Microsoft Canada from 1989-2000. Literally in the last 2 weeks Facebook has taken off and I find a request or two to "be friends" everyday.

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OK, after an eternity of resisting, I'm getting a Mac. A laptop I suppose, although which one I do not know. This is huge for me. I was at Microsoft for 11 years... lets say it was not an option then since at one point I was a product manager on the Windows 95 team.

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Having spent way too many days on a plane and adjusting my watch to different time zones, I was pleased to see a local Enterprise 2.0 Conference right here in Toronto.

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Update: Looks like this event was cancelled.

I'll be at the Enterprise2Rave in New York on May 22nd. It looks like a great thought leader event. If you are coming., look me up.

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I hear the terms used when talking about web 2.0 and social media, so I thought I'd chime in and share a client example.

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Recently my father passed away. As part of the funeral arrangements I scanned in a bunch of photos of my Dad. The funeral home told us if we wanted to bring in a CD or DVD of photos that they had an LCD screen that could play them. Wow, a tech savvy funeral home, pretty cool I thought.

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