I am going to start a series of articles about the
Office 2.0 conference we just attended. I am starting with the only two negative items that left unpleasant feeling. I want to point those two elements out as I care about this event, and I want to help make it better. Everything else that I am going to write about is positive and was quite useful for me and for all the
WordFrame partners participating at the 3rd edition of the conference
The first problem I saw were the sales pitches. Many people complained on twitter about it – I make not exception. Please, Ismael, try to eliminate the sales pitches as much as possible for the next time.
And the other thing that I cannot miss mentioning. I just cannot help it. Ismael’s closing speech kind of almost killed the advertising and sponsorship efforts by Sam Lawrence at Jive. We did laugh a little about it, and I am certain Ismael meant no harm as Jive is a real player in the space and respectful business entity – it just came out quite wrong. Ismael said that Last year’s version of one of Jive’s products was quite difficult and hard to understand for the Office 2.0 participants and they did not use it because of that. Well, there are two possible reasons: either the people attending were stupid and inexperienced using online collaboration / communication systems or… the software was… too “advanced and complicated”? The other comment was about the Office 2.0 system this year – the device the participants got (
HP mini note 2133) wasn’t powerful enough to browse or work on the Jive enabled site – the 1.0Ghz processor, Linux Suse 10 and Latest version of Mozilla Firefox could not do it … “Too complicated code and java scripts” as Ismael mentioned. Great advertising for one of the key sponsors.
I hope Ismael and the other organizers make a note on these two items…