Participants in this week's Enterprise 2.0 conference, hosted by the ODNI's ICES group and the CIA's WIRe team, were treated to a shared experience that is hard to capture in a blog post. So I won't try. But I will say this, we all had some great collaboration and coordination lessons and context, and we were able to participate in creating that ourselves because the conference organizers established a great ambiance and gave us access to wiki's, blogs, twitters and WiFI that knitted that all together. I really appreciated being there.
One lesson I'd like to note now was underscored by Fred Hassani. Fred found a great way to make us all think about the variety of collaboration tools at our disposal. In a musical analogy he underscored how hard it can be to make music with instruments that don't traditionally play well together. But in a sign that the spirit of the community is strong, we all saw how a cowbell can make really really great music if you put your heart into it. And we the community of professionals can make use of any tools we are provided to collaborate, even if they are not our favorites. We will always make due and will always overcome. One way we will overcome is through mashups. Just like in music you can mashup piano's and cowbells, in IT you can mashup imagery data and SIGINT data and analytical data etc.
Which brings us to a great video that underscores this point-- not from thte WIReICES conference, but from a group of spirited collaborators from SNL who many of us in the community look up to.
So please check this out and as you do please think of the IT tools in your enterprise. I guess the point made for CTOs is that we need an enterprise that allows mashups of all tools and all data. You never know when the maestro will call for more cowbell.
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