Presentation from Paul Carruthers of Manchester Business School at the TALK Innovation and Transformation event in London on October 14th, 2008.

1. TALK - What is it?
Paul Carruthers
Manchester Business School

2. the basic stuff
It's a wiki.
+ +
It lets you work together.
It's about people sharing knowledge.
Encourage more open communication
across boundaries.
and
another thing!
N
Y
It's secure.
Public, private or a melding of the two.You
choose. ✗
✓ ✓

3. the structure
Everything hinges around the
'space'.
Create a space for yourself, your project
or your 'group'
In fact, any situation where you need
people to work together
Spaces are boundaries.
Security is down to you.You decide who
sees it/has access

4. other bits of technology
Video
Images
Push content
RSS, favourites, watches, email updates
Tagging
Good old text. remember that?
Platform is extensible with a lively open
source community

5. the fit
A number of LA's innovating with
social media
Activity and prominence steadily
increasing
Individual use for individual purpose
This is great!
But what happens when LA's want
to work together?

6. the fit, part II
When collaboration is needed,
who...
Sources, provides, manages, funds the
platform?
Builds the tricky connections between
socmed boundaries?
TALK in the middle
TALK sits in the gaps between LA's and
provides the platform

7. where it stands
x 600
spaces x 50
PK blog over 43,000 hits in 12 months

8. where it’s going
Extendable, customisable
Social network connections
Community themes
Podcast channels
Building TALK on the web
Twitter, Delicious, Flickr, Blip, Facebook,
Slideshare

9. interesting or not?
Yes. tell me more.
Grab me or any of the other TALK
people here over lunch
Sign up at www.talknet.eu
Request a space
Get TALKing
No. you’ve lost the plot my friend
Grab me or any of the other TALK
people here over lunch
Tell us what you think we need to do