At the EFMD External Relations meeting yesterday and Thursday at CASS Business School (it's for business schools around the globe... and briefly, some thoughts:
a. shocking that in the heart of the City of London, in a room just one floor down from street level (and a big open atrium joining all levels next to the room) there was no mobile reception. This is important why?
Well, I was trying to tweet about EFactor's workshop and how the founders, who are not Gen Y by any stretch of the imagination (and neither am I it must be stressed), are at the cutting edge of integrating social networks and other web 2.0 tools.... and for the first time in my four visits to the annual conference.... members of the audience actually knew what Twitter was. However, the mobile couldn't send the tweet until I left the building several hours later that day! The infrastructure needed to truly get everything and everyone connected is still decades away... probably.
but,
b. the fact that members of the audience seemed to know about social networks and tweeting and the rest of it... this gave me encouragement that slowly but surely the Web 2.0 stuff is moving past the 1994 stage and perhaps we will approach that critical mass of general public knowledge and acceptance a little earlier...
and,
c. I've still to see a proper conference conducted using proper video/virtual conferencing tools. I understand how the conference organisers need to use the conference as a revenue stream, so there's little impetus for them to take the lead... and it was good to talk to a lot of the people face to face... but I'm not going to see them again for another year so maybe it would help us all if we got used to connecting through the ether?
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