Welcome to the home of Web 2.0 Goes to Work - the 'no slides' conference!

This is being used to support the two "Web 2.0 Goes to Work" technical briefings / un-conference conferences that happened in September.

For agenda see below.

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The Raleigh and Austin live conferences are over, but the conversation continues ....

One of the most important things we want to do is get your input - these were YOUR conferences, and we want your input in what you thought worked, what didn't work. And, we wanted to share with YOU. All the various sites, products, etc., that we demo'd can be found at our Resources Page.

Additionally, we want these conferences to be the start of an ongoing conversation about taking Web 2.0 to Work. What benefits are you finding? What challenges are you facing? Discuss.

For those who attended, the events started out with a keynote by Rod Smith, VP, Emerging Technologies, IBM Software Group and technology guru David Barnes  and featured a few demos of some of IBM's offerings (both actual shipping products and developing technologies as well), as well as some of the cool Web 2.0 sites out on the web. Find those links under Resources.

After Rod's keynote, we split into three separate 'working groups' or technical tracks or breakout sessions (feel free to pick the nomenclature you like best!), focused on each of the three pillars of Web 2.0: Application Creation, Collaboration (Social) and Information Technology.

 
Both events have now come and gone (and thanks to the sandwich-board-bearing NCSU students in Raleigh, like the one above) ... we had a great crowd and a lot of fun. (And NO slides - we actually did it!)

We'd like to continue the conversations we started. You'll find we've created pages for each of the breakout tracks, and YOU can add your comments. Please do ....

AGENDA

The general agenda for each session went something like this:

8:00 - 9:00      Registration, Coffee & break
9:00 - 10:00    Kick off - by Rod Smith and David Barnes
10:00 - 10:15  Coffee Break
10:15 - 11:30  Breakout Sessions:

• Application Creation
• Collaboration (Social)
• Information Technology           

11:30 - 12:30  Lunch - technology & product showcase**
12:30 - 1:45   Breakouts
1:45 - 2:00     Breakout Reports - five minute reports from each breakout "track"  (Austin only)
2:00 - 3:00     Panel Discussion: "How DO You Make Web 2.0 Real for Business?" (Raleigh only)
3:15 - 3:30     Wrap Up, Calls to Action and Next Steps.