Dinner with Ross Mayfield

Allan Engelhardt and Lee Bryant organised a Social Software in the Enterprise dinner with Ross Mayfield.

Lots of interesting people and lots of interesting conversations over a very nice meal at the Cantina del Ponte on the Thames. Didn't actually get to talk to Ross, but hey. Briefly chatted with Dave Green, had a lot of fun chatting with Ian (didn't get his last name) and David Smith, both of whom are teachers at Radley looking to do interesting things with blogs and wikis in the classroom. and chatted quite a bit with Livio Hughes, who, together with Lee "spare a cigarette guv'nor?" Bryant, founded Headshift. Seemed like another annoyingly smart, interesting and nice person. Also chatted to Lars (lost last name again) and Allan - seems like many of us are coming to the conclusion that we need to rename some of our tools / platforms...lots of agreement that the words "wiki" and "blog" don't come across well in the corporate environment. I'm already calling both "small scale content management", but I'm not sure that phrase accurately reflects blogs and wikis, and neither does it distinguish what are still quite separate applications.

Fun fun fun, and just what I needed to re-energise myself a little.