First session at BarCampAustin -- getting Shit and Getting Shit Done with Blogs Presentation by our favorite Redmonk Analyst Michael Cote.

- He is talking about to use blogs, wiki's, search appliance, etc within the Enterprise.

- Cote's requirements for "Enterprise Blogging Systems":

• Self registration
• Multi-user
• Easy to setup and run: you'll do all the work
• Multi-platform (for scaling)

- His advice is to do all this yourself as a skunkworks internal project. Don't wait for IT, they won't like it at first...

- The system he used included: Roller, Lyceam, WordPress, and Hosted....

- Other stuff you will want to have behind the firewall: aggregators, search, wiki's, and RSS. You need to create your own blogsphere within the Enterprise. Recommends using Newsgator Outlook plugins for new tech people.

- Best bullet point of presentation: "But I got shit and got shit done."

- There was some discussion about Stock (Wiki's) vs. Flow (blogs).

- Lots of discussion about how to sell blogs in an enterprise.

- Excellent session. Lots of discussion. Could not blog it all since I needed to chime in.
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