An interesting article was sat on vunet this morning as i waited on platform 5 at Reading station.
In it Bill Gates talks about collaborative working and more specifically ‘blogging’
Speaking at Microsoft’s Chief Executive Summit the company’s chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates predicted that ‘bottom-up’ collaboration would be the new way of working.
Describing the corporate dilemma over how to give staff freedom without creating problems for the business, he said: “The next generation of collaboration is about bottom-up collaborative websites, where the IT department doesn’t get involved.”
He also pointed to blogging and Rich Site Summary (RSS) notifications as easing the sharing of information.
“What blogging and these notifications are about is that you make it very easy to write something that you can think of, like an e-mail, but it goes up onto a website. And then people who care about that get a little notification. The ultimate idea is that you should get the information you want when you want it,” he said.
Gates outlined Microsoft plans to use knowledge it has gained from the Microsoft Developer Network to create community-centric Office features.
The idea of corporate blogging is a great one where ’shared’ information is important but a fast simple subscribable method of delivery is paramount.
Many times I’ve suggested a set of ‘technical’ blogs in our company, but it falls on deaf ears…
posted on the 7.17 from Reading to london
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