I finally got my presentation uploaded and synced with the slides. The presentation, "Social Media Developments in the Real-Time Economy" is in finnish (but slides are in english) and was given at the Real-Time Enterprise Summit, Finlandia Hall, 6th of October 2008.
The presentation can be viewed here.
Most of the 1990's and early part of the current decennium was the period of achieving real time in information management and decision making within the organization. Real time in this context often means "within a day". Looking into processes between organizations (e.g. supply chains and networks) e-invoicing and e-payments are internationally the most discussed real-time enterprise solutions today. Even there the penetration of eInvoicing is at very early stages in Europe and Scandinavian ..
The typical conference is still the same: rows of seats and a sage on the stage. Everyone listens to the guru for 30-45 minutes and then it's time for a few minutes of questions & answers. The day is full of such sessions and you have a rushed coffee break somewhere in between wher you try to "network".
Now, imagine that we have all of this technology and how it could be used to improve a traditional conference like this:
