Shifting Expectations

...in the big picture??? I was reading Stewart Mader's excellent blog on wikis and his post on where wikis fit in the overall scheme of things. This article linked to a blog by Erica Driver on some work the Forrester people have done on looking at Web 2.0, its core technologies, its applications and most importantly, what they let you do and what that means for people, business, life. I was particularly taken with the third concentric circle, Behavior Changes, and Erica's statement that " Not everyone is out there blogging and tagging; we've found that people fall into several buckets: creators, critics, collectors, joiners, spectators, and inactives. " This came to me just as I was contemplating similar thoughts myself in respect of me. While I blog a little (very little and very badly!) and I tag a bit (a bit of delicious and some flikr) I'm not really sure I'm a fully fledged creator . I comment rarely on blogs, so probably not much of a critic eithe...

I'm a little bit excited! I attended a workshop at presentation at work today on Unified Communication & Collaboration or UCC for short. The presentation was given by one of our partners, HP . An outline of HP's view of UCC from a corporate perspective can be found here . The essence of the technology is that it allows communication in any way (ie with any connected device), at any time and from anywhere. It incorporates technology such as Instant Messaging, VoIP, Videoconferencing, Email all bundled up into one. The actual technology that is being looked at is Micosoft's Office Communications Server with Microsoft's business-based instant messaging tool, Communicator. This is going to be great . We're going to try this out in schools, just a few, to see how they get on with it. We're going to start with teachers, but the pupils will follow close behind, and we're going to see what the schools come up with, how they feel they can use it and what benefit...