Getting The /Message

I’ve run into Stowe a couple of times over the past few years — Enterprise 2.0 in Boston and mesh in Toronto — and after I blogged about his latest Enterprise 2.0 presentation, he invited me to be a guest blogger here on /Message.

As a quick intro, I’ve been working with business process management (BPM), content management and related technologies since the late 1980’s, and I’m fascinated by how these very enterprise-y systems are morphing into something much more social. My interest in all manner of integration technologies led me to mashups, which I believe are the next generation of end-user computing within enterprises, and I’ve been watching (and influencing, where possible) all the other ways that consumer social networking is impacting the design of systems within enterprises: everything from RSS feeds to collaboration.

In my “real job”, I spend part of my time working with end-customer (mostly financial services) organizations implementing BPM, everything from strategy to vendor selection to user requirements to architecture and design; and part of my time as an industry analyst working with vendors on product strategy or the creation of white papers and webinars. You can find out more about me here.

My own blog, Column 2, is about BPM, Enterprise 2.0 and the intersection of technology and business, and includes live blogging from every conference that I’ve attended over the past two years.