Austin Entrepreneur Network

2/5/2010 Collaborative Tools — Google Wave

Registration Link: http://2010aenshortcourse5.eventbrite.com/

Success in business increasingly requires success in collaboration, and collaboration is increasingly supported by a variety of online tools and environments. Email has been the fundamental collaborative tool since businesses started moving online, if only because it’s the default messaging application that everybody uses. Google proposes to replace email with Wave, described as a personal communication and collaboration tool. Wave merges features or patterns from email, wikis, instant messaging, and social networking in a robust system that is not an application, but a web-based service, computing platform, and communication protocol. We’ll discuss how Wave is structured, and how its structure can support successful, robust business collaboration.

Jon Lebkowsky
jonl@socialwebstrategies.com
A Social Web Strategies Founding Partner, Jon Lebkowsky is a culture and business strategist and thought leader focused on the Internet, the World Wide Web, and the social uses of digital technologies. An early online community moderator on The Well, and a founder of Fringeware – one of the first internet businesses, Jon has been a direct participant in the formative conversations that generated our contemporary global digital society. Writing on digital culture, technology, media, and global sustainability, he was one of the web’s first bloggers, having blogged regularly since 2000. He is an acknowledged authority on the social web, online communities, web development, public wireless broadband, and e-democracy. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Lebkowsky”
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