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CTC Boston 2006 - People

I met some great folks at CTC Boston 2006. Here’s a sampling:

• Dr. Andrew McAfee is an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Business School, and author of the recent MIT Sloan Management Review article Enterprise 2.0: The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration and a great article entitled The Trends Underlying Enterprise 2.0. Dr. McAfee gave an amazing presentation at CTC. If your CEO or other executives in your company do not get Enterprise 2.0, if they do not understand how your company can benefit from flattening its management structure, work out a way to get Dr. McAfee to come in and speak to them.
• Stu Downes: Stu hails from the north of England, is an expert at Loutus Notes Development, and runs a great blog. His article on IBM’s new Web 2.0 tools for the enterprise is worth checking out.
• Dr. Phillip J. Windley runs the blog Technometria and is the author of the seminal Identity 2.0 book entitled Digital Identity. If your firm needs to understand how to deal with identity issues, get in touch with Dr. Windley. His presentation on Identity 2.0 provided a great explanation.
• Raju Vegensa is one of the many rock stars at Zoho. Zoho has built every whiz-bang Web 2.0 tool you can imagine: Word Processor, Spreadsheet, etc. They have a MajikWidget style mashet called Zoho Polls that is seriously cool. More on that soon.
• Lars Plougmann has justed started a Web 2.0 consulting firm that aims to help U.K. based companies create better, more productive, collaboration teams. The firm is called Zonoma, and judging by my conversations with Lars, I am sure Zonoma will be a hit.
• Jeffrey Treem writes Inside the Cubicle. Great blog!
• Mike Andrews is VP of Sales at Trumba. Trumba is 2nd generation Web 2.0 tool. It assumes you have a blog and have a need to communicate with your audience, and keep them up to date on important calendar events. I like it. It’s easy to use. It integrates with most calendars out there.
• Jnan Dash has 16 years of IBM and 10 years of Oracle under his belt. While at Oracle, he was Group Vice President, Systems Architecture and Technology. Super nice guy. Today, he is providing executive consultanting services to a series of start-ups. In the end, Silicon Valley is a small place, and the top guys all know each other. Jnan Dash is one of them.
• Dion Hinchliffe gave an amazing presentation at CTC. If you haven’t checked out Dion’s blog, I suggest you do so right away. If for no other reason that to see the amazing way he diagrams the interplay of Web 2.0 technology.
• Stowe Boyd was responsible for getting me to CTC in the first place. I’d like to say a very public thank you. I didn’t have much time to talk with Stowe, but it was just enough time for him to take me to task on the term “mashet”. Stowe thinks that these combinations of widgets and mash-ups should be called “Widge-ups“.
• John C. Beck from the North Star Leadership Group. They help companies implement learning through games. What more could you ask for?
• Ranvir Gujral who is the founder and CEO of stealth start-up InsightPath. I’m looking forward to seeing what he comes up with.
• Stephen Faris who is the CTO of HealthGate. HealthGate has a simple but powerful blog/wiki like communication system targeted at the health services industry.
• Ross Mayfield: famed blogger, and CEO of SocialText. Ross spent the conference perfecting his Phil Donahue impressions.

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