Enterprise 2.0: Soylent Green or Sustainable Nutrition?
34 years ago a vision of 2022 emerged, culminating with the cry: “Soylent Green is people!”
Today, I’m proposing my own vision of 2022: “Business is people!”
As in 1973, when we contemplate the future, it’s simple: people.
The difference? We believe firmly in sustainability, a secure environment and global collaboration - for we have seen the results of mismanaging our resources.
This week the future of technology is unfolding at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston. And there’s a movement starting there that hearkens back to the same late 60’s and early 70’s that birthed Soylent Green and the “summer of love” (talk about a great catalyst of collaboration and change):
It’s the Enterprise 2.0 Uncoalition - and it is forming in real time on the floor of the conference. I am anxiously awaiting floor reports, but here’s what I know about the Uncoalition:
Participants believe in moving RSS beyond simply sharing news feeds - allowing people to send documents and files (e.g. spreadsheets, presentations, graphics) through feeds to people in a secure manner. Opt-in to your corporate PR feed and get the latest financial results presentation delivered to you as it is posted…
Participants believe in adding productivity to RSS feed reading - allowing an employee to post directly to their blog or wiki from their feed reader - whether it be from Outlook, their Blackberry or enterprise IM service. Post your product’s press coverage from your Blackberry to the people on your team’s wiki.
I am looking forward to the Uncoalition logo popping up all over the web. Watch for it on an enterprise 2.0 site near you.
Power to the people…
