This week a number of people from the CustomerVision team, including Cindy Rockwell, Cliff Monlux, Tom Wynne and myself, spent some time together in Seattle and towards the end of the week we went down to the Recent Changes Camp in Portland.
It’d already been a long week for us so we only managed to get in one day at the camp but it was great to spend time with some of the movers and shakers in the wiki world. We got to touch base with an old friend Ray King, participate with the inventor of the wiki idea Ward Cunningham in a small group session, and meet some of the other great entrepreneurs in the wiki world such as Mike Cannon-Brooks and Jonathan Nolen from Atlassian and Michele Ann Jenkins from Wikitravel.
A couple of interesting sessions we attended include Managing Large Scale Wikis convened by Ward Cunningham and A Pattern Language for Wiki Adoption convened by Mike Cannon-Brooks. Our CEO Cindy Rockwell convened a session on Bringing Wiki Passion to Corporations.
I was quite impressed with how effective the Open Space meeting format was. For anyone who has spent much time in corporate America the Open Space format can seem like chaos when you first see it but it ended up producing an agenda that was highly relevant and tightly aligned with skills and interests of both the presenters and the participants.
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