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Community Power
2008-08-24 16:01:00
Losing our Diamond Sponsor 10 days before the conference was definitely a huge blow ($75,000), but it forced us to be creative, and focus our efforts on what makes this conference unique, as Susan and Gadi so eloquently pointed out ? its community-driven nature. The Office 2.0 Conference would not exist without the help it receives from its sponsors, but many early-stage startups cannot afford even our entry-level package ($2,500). In fact, they can barely afford the cost of flying to California today. Yet many innovations come from the smallest companies with the tightest budgets, and we've always been looking for ways to engage with them. The Office 2.0 Launchpad might be the answer. Less than 24 hours after announcing it, we confirmed the participation of 8 companies, and are reviewing another 5. With a little bit more help from the bloggers community, we should easily reach 20 to 30, creating a nice balance with our more established paying sponsors. This is a perfect examp...
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Office 2.0 Launchpad
2008-08-23 13:29:00
You've started a new company developing a cool Office 2.0 product? Your company has 5 employees or less? You want to show your product to investors and media representatives? The Office 2.0 Launchpad is for you! Hosted by the Office 2.0 Conference to take place in San Francisco, CA on September 3-5, the Office 2.0 Launchpad will let you schedule one-on-one demos with over 50 members of the VC community, and more than 100 analysts, bloggers, and journalists, alongside potential customers and thought leaders from the Office 2.0 industry. If you're interested, please send an email to ismael at monolab dot com. The first ten applicants come for free. The next get in for $995, barely enough to cover food and hotel costs. Hurry up, for we only have a limited number of spots available! What's included: One full attendee passListing on the Office 2.0 Launchpad pageAccess to the one-on-one demo scheduling systemDedicated page on the office20.com website for one yearVideo recordi...

Confirmed Speakers
2008-08-22 19:22:00
Here is the first round of confirmed speakers for the Office 2.0 Conference: David Allen, CEO, David Allen & Co.Sam Angus, Partner, Fenwick & WestCharles Beckham, Chief architect, Java Enterprise Tools, Sun MicrosystemsRob Bernshteyn, Vice President, Global Product Marketing & Management, SuccessFactorsDaniel Brusilovsky, Editor, Apple UniverseDon Bulmer, Vice President, Industry and Influencer Relations, SAPRobin Carey, President, Carey Publishing GroupDean Carlson, CEO, ViewpathGuillaume Cohen, CEO, VeodiaDavid Coleman, Managing Director, Collaborative StrategiesMichael Copeland, Senior Writer, FortuneDorianne Cotter, President, Cotter Consulting ServicesDaniel Druker, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, IntacctRobert Duffy, Online Communities Strategist, IntelZoli Erdos, Editor, Zoli's BlogPete Fields, Senior Vice President, eCommerce Division, WachoviaAndrew Filev, CEO, WrikeAaron Forth, Vice President, Product, Mint.comJosh Fraser, Vice President, B...
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Faith, Friendship, and Freedom
2008-08-21 19:53:00
Someday, you're having a bad day. Nothing seems to work out, no matter how hard you try. Today for example, we parted ways with our former Diamond Sponsor, for reasons I do not care to elaborate on. Since we planned for a break-even budget this year (like we did in the past two years), my wife and I will have to make up for the lost revenue. This year's conference remains the best we've put together so far, but our plans for fancy vacations might have to be reconsidered. While this was happening and I was meeting customers and partners in Japan (165,000 qualifying miles to date this year), I have been working hard to close Intalio's last round of funding. Even though I have done it many times in the past, this round is the first one for which I have had to put a good fight in order to preserve my team's fair share in the company. And while all parties involved seem to be acting in good faith, getting everybody's interests aligned is proving more challenging than expected....
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Zoho Party
2008-08-16 17:05:00
This year, the Zoho Party will take place in the Vitrine, on the hotel's 4th floor, on Thursday, September 4, from 6PM to 9PM. All attendees are invited. Many more Zoho-related news coming soon...

End Users at the Office 2.0 Conference
2008-08-15 13:52:00
This year, executives from many large end user organizations will speak at the Office 2.0 Conference , including GE, Stanford Univeristy, Sony, Sun Microsystems, Tesla, Xerox, and Wachovia. Our Agenda is almost complete now, and our demo scheduling system should be released sometime next week. We're also shipping the first HP 2133 Mini-Note PC devices to paying attendees today. Registrations are going strong, and the hotel is almost sold out. Make sure to register and book your hotel room soon if you want to join us for what should be our best event to date.
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Migrating the Office 2.0 Database to Clearspace
2008-08-13 20:21:00
Our goal is to turn the office20.com community website into a premiere destination for everything Office 2.0. For this reasons, we're currently looking at migrating the Office 2.0 Database to Clearspace. At present time, it's powered by a WordPress server on the front-end, and a Dabble DB database on the back-end. We'll definitely migrate the front-end component, creating a custom Clearspace document for each application and using it as a place holder. But for the back-end, we're not exactly sure. We need an online database that supports JSON for data syndication, and offers the ability to share rows with individual users ? typically the person in charge of marketing at the application's vendor. I don't think Google Docs supports row-level sharing in spreadsheets, and I've not followed the development of Zoho Creator or Zoho DB closely enough to know whether they do or not. Any idea?
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Dealmaking at the Office 2.0 Conference
2008-08-13 20:07:00
The Office 2.0 Conference is not really focused on dealmaking, unlike a couple other industry events taking place around the same time. Yet from time to time, something along these lines happen, and we're happy that our little contribution could make a real difference in someone's life. Today, I learned about Jotlet's recent acquisition by Jive Software, which happened as a direct result of Jotlet's participation in last year's Office 2.0 Conference. I'm not in the news breaking business, so I won't tell you what these guys are up to, but I can't wait to see what a good calendar built into Clearspace might look like. This is definitely something that we could have used this year in order to schedule demonstrations between sponsors and attendees. In the meantime, we'll build our own mashup. If you have suggestions on how to do that with a minimum amount of work, drop us a line!
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Sharing Documents with Groups
2008-08-13 01:10:00
The entire Office 2.0 Conference is managed using online tools exclusively. This eat-your-own-dog-food approach allows us to see what works, and what does not. We learn quite a bit from these experiments, and share our fidings with vendors. Most of the time, they listen, and improve their products based on our feedback. First, let's talk about what works: we've been using Jive Software's Clearspace 2.5 for about a week now, and I must say that we love it! Using this great piece of software, we managed to build an entire community website over a week-end, and are already starting to get some nice contributions from attendees and speakers alike. Second, let's see what does not work, or could work better. Clearspace lets us create Word-like documents, but does not have native support for spreadsheets (beyond simple HTML tables). For some documents, such as a media list with the names, emails, companies, and websites of media attendees, a spreadsheet is what we need. ...
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Moderro at the Office 2.0 Conference
2008-08-12 20:12:00
 In its original incarnation circa 1996, the concept for a Network Computer (NC) did not really make sense. It offered a fraction of the functionality provided by a regular Personal Computer (PC), at a similar purchase price. But most importantly, nobody really cared. The web was just starting, and the promoters of this new platform (Oracle and Sun Microsystems) found it difficult to make a case for it beyond their common distaste for anything Microsoft. Today, the concept for a Network Computer is back en force. Some call it Web Computer, others Mobile Internet Device, but whatever you call it, it makes perfect sense, now that we can do pretty everything in a plain vanilla web browsers. One of these devices is the Moderro Web PC, and we're happy to announce that the company behind it is joining the Office 2.0 Conference as a Gear Sponsor. If everything goes as planned, the Moderro Web PC should be demonstrated to the public for the very first time during our event, in the Gea...
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Intacct at the Office 2.0 Conference
2008-08-12 16:41:00
 For the past two years, we've been looking for an accounting application that would be available as a service, would work with any web browser, would support multiple currencies, and could be integrated with Salesforce.com. After much research, we came to the conclusion that only one option was available: Intacct. Today, I am pleased to announce that Monolab, Inc. will deploy Intacct Small Business to manage our conference business, while Monolab|Workspace, Inc. will deploy Intacct Enterprise for managing its upcoming network of workspaces. Intalio is looking at it as well in order to manage its fast growing business (125% year-over-year growth for the past two years). Last but not least, Intacct is joining the Office 2.0 Conference as a Silver Sponsor, and will bring some customers along to present some very cool use cases. Many thanks to Gadi Shamia for his help in getting this partnership off the ground.
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Oracle and SAP at the Office 2.0 Conference, Together...
2008-08-11 17:23:00
As competitors go, it would be difficult to find a more unlikely pair than Oracle and SAP, at least as far as enterprise software is concerned. Nevertheless, the good folks at Social Media Today managed to convince them to bury the hatchet, at least for the time of the Conference . Thanks to the work of Robin Carey, Kirk Petersen, and JoAnn McGrath, we're pleased to announce that Don Bulmer, VP, Industry and Influencer Relations, SAP, and Mark Woolen, SVP, CRM Product Strategy, Oracle will join the Online Community: Who Should Own It? panel. The moderator and a couple more panelists will be selected in the coming days.
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Oracle and SAP at the Office 2.0 Conference
2008-08-11 17:23:00
As competitors go, it would be difficult to find a more unlikely pair than Oracle and SAP, at least as far as enterprise software is concerned. Nevertheless, the good folks at Social Media Today managed to convince them to bury the hatchet, at least for the time of the Conference . Thanks to the work of Robin Carey, Kirk Petersen, and JoAnn McGrath, we're pleased to announce that Don Bulmer, VP, Industry and Influencer Relations, SAP, and Mark Woolen, SVP, CRM Product Strategy, Oracle will join the Online Community: Who Should Own It? panel. The moderator and a couple more panelists will be selected in the coming days.
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Dynamism at the Office 2.0 Conference
2008-08-11 16:55:00
Back in 2001, my good friend Doug Neal introduced me to Dynamism, a US based company importing cool devices from Japan. While nothing can replace regular trips to Akihabara if you're a true gadget lover, frequent visits to the dynamism.com website are the closest match you can get, especially if you're on a budget. This year, I am extremely pleased to announce that the good folks from Dynamism will join us for the Office 2.0 Conference . We will give them the largest table we can fit in the Gear Gallery, and they will demo their coolest gadgets. Many of them cannot be found in any domestic retail stores, hence this will be a great opportunity to discover some new form factors up close. Many thanks to Doug (Neal) for the introduction, and to Doug (Krone) for his participation. We look forward to seeing you both at the conference.
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Ipevo at the Office 2.0 Conference
2008-08-11 16:25:00
 I am pleased to announce that Ipevo joined the Office 2.0 Conference as a Gear Sponsor, and will demonstrate their ultra cool VoIP devices at the event. They will join a handful of vendors in the Gear Gallery, to be located on the 4th Floor next to the Terrace at the St. Regis Hotel. As part of this sponsorship, Ipevo is giving us 50 FREE.2 Skype USB Handset, to be gifted to the next 50 people who will register for the conference.
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Office 2.0 Unconference
2008-08-11 13:25:00
The Office 2.0 Unconference will take place at the St. Regis Hotel on September 3rd, 2008, from 9AM to 5PM. Attendees of the Office 2.0 Conference can participate for free, without any additional registration. Anyone else can join the Unconference for $50 by registering on the www.regonline.com/unoffice20 website. The Unconference will also host David Coleman's Collaboratory Experiment.

MindMeister at the Office 2.0 Conference
2008-08-11 11:51:00
One of the best online applications for mind mapping is German-born MindMeister, developed by MeisterLabs. Today, I am pleased to announce that MindMeister will join the conference as a Bronze Sponsor, and offer a Premium account worth $49.90 to every attendee. In order to benefit from it, just register for a free Basic account, and add the license key that will be sent to you by email in the coming weeks. Thomas Burg, CODEMART's new Marketing Manager, will be at the conference.
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Office 2.0 Blog
2008-08-09 20:45:00
Two and a half years ago, I started the IT|Redux blog, which primarily covered two topics: Office 2.0 and BPM 2.0. Today, the Office 2.0 thread is moving to the just released office20.com website (powered by Jive Software's Clearspace). It will host the Office 2.0 Conference taking place every September, and continue the conversation throughout the year. The BPM 2.0 thread will eventually move to a new blog managed by Intalio, where it really belongs. The office20.com website is more than a blog. It's a very advanced platform that can host multiple communities, offering some pretty cool social networking features that we could not build with a simple blogging tool. Our goal is to turn it into the premiere destination for anything Office 2.0. The Office 2.0 Database will be migrated there in the coming days, and we'll add a couple more applications soon after the Conference. If the Office 2.0 topic is what drove you to the IT|Redux blog, please register to the site now, and follow...
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Office 2.0 Blog Feed
2008-08-09 18:21:00
The Office 2.0 Blog is now using the feeds.feedburner.com/office20 feed that was generously donated by Dan Itkis, author of the Office 2.0 Reviews blog. If you were one of Dan's subscribers, please use this new feed instead. Many thanks to Dan for his help! Now, I'd love to use the twitter.com/office20 Twitter feed as well. If you know the person owning it, please make an introduction.
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Welcome to the Office 2.0 Blog
2008-08-09 17:32:00
Two and a half years ago, I started the IT|Redux blog, which primarily covered two topics: Office 2.0 and BPM 2.0. Today, the Office 2.0 thread will move to this new website (powered by Jive Software's Clearspace). It will host the Office 2.0 Conference taking place every September, and continue the conversation throughout the year. The BPM 2.0 thread will eventually move to a blog managed by Intalio, where it really belongs. Lately, the IT|Redux blog has been home to a lot of discussions related to the Monolab|Workspace project. These will be migrated to another Clearspace instance hosted on the monolab.com domain name. Such a distribution of threads should make it easier for readers to participate in the conversations that interest them the most. This will leave IT|Redux pretty much speechless. Nevertheless, I will make sure to provide an aggregated feed for the most devoted of my readers. And if you really want to know everything that's hapening in my life, feel free to read th...
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Office 2.0 Conference Website
2008-08-07 04:05:00
When we launched the first Office 2.0 Conference in the Summer of 2006, we thought we did everything in a rush. The event was announced on July 26, 2006, and a website was released on August 16. Less than six weeks before the event, which took place on October 12-13. But in retrospect, we really took our time, for until now, we did not even have a website. And the conference is less than a month away. Well, it was fun while it lasted, but some prospective attendees recently started to wonder whether we were going to have an event at all, so we fired our keyboards and mice this morning, and developed a brand new website in about eight hours. [Continue...]
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Monolab|Workspace San Francisco
2008-08-06 04:09:00
While our Palo Alto space is filling up nicely, we're starting to get more and more requests for a similar space in San Francisco . We gave our requirements to our real estate agent (Cornish & Carey), and they located some pretty cool properties. One of them in particular drew our attention, and I am happy to report that we might have found the perfect spot for the Monolab|Workspace San Francisco. [Continue...]

Second Extreme Productivity Seminar
2008-08-01 07:07:00
Ever since we launched the Office 2.0 Conference, summer months have been pretty busy for my wife and I. But this year is particularly interesting. Intalio is growing very fast now (the team doubled over the past six months, and is expected to double again over the next six months), the first Monolab|Workspace was setup in a record time, and the 2008 edition of the Office 2.0 Conference is generating a level of interest never seen before. Unfortunately, days only have 24 hours, and it does not look like it's going to change anytime soon. Only option: do more with less, and this is why we're continuously working to improve our personal productivity system, adding new tools, and streamlining workflows. If you want to learn more about them, I invite you to join us for the second Extreme Productivity Seminar . [Continue...]

David Allen at the Office 2.0 Conference
2008-07-31 18:02:00
Three years ago, I read David Allen 's Getting Things Done seminal book on personal productivity. Finding ways to implement David's extremely powerful yet deceptively simple workflow quickly became an obsession, and one of the primary motivations for developing the Office 2.0 concept. I later implemented my own version of David's framework through the Extreme Productivity System, but it's only when I met David and his team earlier this year that I really understood what the GTD was all about: it's a way of life that goes beyond productivity, and can have a profound impact on one's short time with the rest of us. Having made this discovery, all I wanted to do next was to share it with others. Unfortunately, David's busy agenda and relatively small home office in Ojai, CA would make it difficult for my 3,000 regular readers to benefit from the very same experience. But I have some great news today: you will soon get a chance to meet David Allen in person, for he generously offer...
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Monolab|Design Trunk
2008-07-28 05:55:00
Four years ago, I was technically homeless. While working for Intalio, I was traveling so much (about 3 weeks every month) that I decided to leave my apartment, sell most of my belongings, and live in hotels. Whenever I would come back from a trip, I would crash at the Hilton Garden San Mateo during the week, and the W San Francisco on week ends. I did that for about 7 months, then decided that I needed a place to store my most valuable possessions, including some books and CDs. This is when the Monolab|Design Trunk was born. Then, Apple released the first aluminum-made PowerMac, and the project went out of control... [Continue...]

Monolab|Workspace Vancouver
2008-07-27 23:32:00
Our Palo Alto building's final inspection has been scheduled for Tuesday, July 29, after which we will be in a position to formally accept memberships. In the meantime, we received a request for 20 workstations in Vancouver , BC, and are considering moving this location up from Phase II to Phase I (details here). [Continue...]

Where is the Redux Model 1?
2008-07-23 18:23:00
Earlier this week, Michael Arrington created quite a flurry of interest by announcing the TechCrunch Web Tablet. Of course, any resemblance with the Redux Model 1 is purely coincidental. Nevertheless, Michael and his team might learn a couple of things from our own experiment, started ten months ago. [Continue...]
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Partnership with Polycom
2008-07-08 18:46:00
I am pleased to report that Monolab|Workspace just established a partnership with Polycom. Through this partnership, each workspace will be equipped with a fantastic Polycom HDX Media Center video conferencing system. The first system will be installed at the Monolab|Workspace Palo Alto, and should be ready to use at the launch party, to take place on July 14, 2008 (Bastille Day). Polycom will also join the upcoming Office 2.0 Conference as a Gold Sponsor. [Continue...]

Monocle?s Top 25 Liveable Cities
2008-07-07 18:05:00
I just arrived in Singapore for a two-day trip in the eponymous city, to be followed by Bangkok, Thailand. The 17 hours United Airlines flight with connection in Narita gave me the opportunity to pour through Monocle 's issue 15, volume 02, and its fantastic list of Top 25 Liveable Cities . Interestingly enough, the Phase I & II development plan for Monolab|Workspace (16 locations) includes 7 of Monocle's favorite destinations. Phase III & IV will extend the list to 64 locations, and every single one of them is on Monocle's list (extended with 5 challengers). [Continue...]

Independence Day
2008-07-05 03:13:00
On this glorious day, May is regaining her independence (from regular office work) by incorporating Monolab|Workspace, Inc., the company that will develop our workspace concept. We just received some paperwork from our lawyers (Fenwick & West), and are jumping head first into this new venture. Pretty exciting... [Continue...]
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