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Thanks to everyone for being such an engaging audience last night - it was a pleasure to talk to you all. If any one has any questions or wants to argue against anything I said feel free to email me or post a comment here. You won't offend me by disagreeing with anything I said, I welcome debate and am not too proud to surrender to a well reasoned argument - debate helps us all understand better.

As always with these things there are points I realize I should have made and other things I realize I should have expanded upon but time is always such a limited commodity. If any one can make it to the next Leeds open coffee we can talk further.

Thanks for some really interesting questions and conversations after the presentation.

As promised, the presentation (as a PDF) can be download from here:

Also, below is the reading list I recommend and also the list of Web 2.0 apps that are worth taking a look at to see if they can help you in your business. If you find any others you like, please post about them in the comments section and share with everyone else.

Reading List:

Books


Shaping things - Bruce Sterling


WiKinomics - Don Tapscott


Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing - Adam Greenfield


Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution - Howard Rheingold


The Laws of Simplicity - John Maeda


Ambient Findability - Peter Morville


The Long Tail - Chris Anderson

Web


Ripe for use - Web 2.0 apps an SME could use right now:

Document Sharing and Archiving
Google Docs

Customer Relationship Managent
Salesforce.com

Publishing
Blogger, Word Press, TypePad

Project collaboration
Basecamp

Invoicing
Blinksale

Meeting Coordination
Time & Date, Dopplr, Calendar Hub

File Transfer
Dropsend, Yousendit

Storage
Xdrive, Omnidrive

News/Feed tracking
Bloglines

Recruitment/Staffing
Linkedin, odesk

Information Tracking/Sharing
Del.icio.us

Event publicity
Upcomming

Social Network
Ning,

Office suite
Zoho, Thinkfree, Google Docs

Collaboration
YuuGuu, Social Text

Conferecing
YuuGuu, Webex

Telephony
Skype, Grand Central


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Anonymous said…
Great talk last night Ian - Many thanks
10:39 am
Anonymous said…
I have a few photos here and a short video here too :)
10:44 am
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