Web 2.0 Roundtable

September 14th, 2007 by JD Kathuria

A Web 2.0 Roundtable was held this morning at the Tower Club. Some of the comments and insights are:

ROI vs- ROE: This group consisted of mostly large companies in need of products with ROI, Janet Hall of TMNG Global suggested that every company will not only weigh the Return on Investment but will carefully assess the customer’s Return on Experience (“ROE”) as factors for continuing projects.

Sameer Sharma of Lockheed Martin indicated that Web 2.0 is in the very early stage of mass collaboration which to the agreement of the group, will enable a much higher degree of connection and leverage. Tom Hall of EDS and Janet Hall of TMNG suggested that much of the Web 2.0 early adoption is framed and tested initially for internal use only.

Burton Kloster of Brainware indicated that another area gaining Web 2.0 traction is in the Political field. Andy Hoskinson, of Unisys referenced, Barack Obama’s Linked in questionnaire issuance and the level of intelligent responses that were received as an early bell weather of change in this field. Joe Trippi the 2004 Howard Dean campaign manager and now the web coordinator for the John Edwards campaign will take this discussion deeper at the November 1 conference.

A number of attendees including; Derek Plansky of Lexis Nexis, Scott Stephens of The Push Group, Brian Williams of Viget Labs and Swamy Narayama of CGI commented to the trend of application development extending to the “seed and grow” phase and that community managers and community librarians are valuable enablers to the process, as long as they remain “honest brokers” of information and are not perceived as superficial marketing vehicles.

Daniel Chenok of SRA and Dr. Angela Wilson of Sekon remarked about the continuing need for access control, privacy and security in governmental installations. They also mentioned the self-regulation occurs in government secure intranets like Intellipedia; where posting information has a direct impact to reputation. Ralph Crozier of Grow Fast Grow Right, was excited to hear that Kevin Turner, Chief Operating Officer of Microsoft is speaking to an Executive Biz gathering on September 21st at the Reston Hyatt.

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