Video conversation with Euan Semple on Enterprise 2.0 governance and peer-to-peer

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On Friday I caught up with Euan Semple in London. It was great to meet, as we’d just conversed over email, voice, and video up until then, and of course had him present over video at our Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum in February.

It recently occurred to me that when I catch up with interesting people, I should make a brief video at the end of the meeting to summarize the most intriguing ideas that had come up in the course of our conversation. This is the first time I have tried it, though I hope to do this a lot more regularly now. One of the biggest benefits is capturing for myself the most interesting insights from the conversations I have. It’s also great to share these with others.

In this case I did a very poor job of making the video. First the tape ran out in the middle of the conversation. Then I rewound the tape, and ended up going over the beginning of the earlier conversation. Hopefully I have learned my lesson from this – there are still some very interesting points made by Euan in the video. Forgive the discontinuities.

One of the interesting insights from doing the video capture at the end of our meeting was that taking notes (which neither of us did) can be very helpful in working out what actually is the most valuable from a conversation. We did in fact discuss Evernote, which we are both exploring, as a possible tool for capturing insights along the way.

In the video Euan talks briefly about governance for Enterprise 2.0, which is one of my key themes at the moment, and Euan thinks organizations are ripe for, and the application of peer-to-peer principles across every aspects of business and society. He also raises the view that we both have that Enterprise 2.0 and social computing are going to play out over 5-10 years or more – we are early in a long-term shift, and it’s not going to happen as swiftly as some others think. This brief video only touches on the breadth of what we discussed, but is definitely useful nonetheless. I’ll continue to experiment with these ‘video conversations’ to capture useful insights from meetings I have.