Digwww is a grassroots discussion group focused on web technologies and culture, founded in July 2006 by a passionate group at a UK-based global company. It has evolved into a platform for workshops and seminars, contributing to the emergence of Enterprise 2.0 concepts, while achieving significant online engagement through blogs and podcasts. The initiative showcases collaboration and innovation within the company, evidenced by substantial web traffic and successful events like e2 week.

2. ..Q&A First up a…

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4. What is DIGWWW?

5. A Discussion Group about the World Wide Web

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7. Who?

8. A group of people passionate about the web, collaboration & innovation

9. Started in the UK at a global blue chip company

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11. What’s the point?

12. We discuss web technologies & culture, their impact to work, society & the company

13. More specifically… Web 2.0

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15. Anything else to know?

16. This is not our job..

17. … we do this in spare cycles & lunch hours

18. … because we are passionate about this stuff

19. History

20. 12 th July 2006

21. The first DIGWWW session

22. The Topic?

23. The Rise of Blogging

24. Approx 10 people in attendance

25. Blogs were discussed in general So was the blog ‘scene’ within the company

26. Opportunities were explored and a blog platform identified

27. Subsequent discussions took place every 2 weeks

28. August 2006

29. Following on from the first meeting…

30. The first dedicated internal blog was launched…

31. On an open source flexible platform… Drupal

32. digwww.***.com A community blog for all things www and web2.0 related

33. Today the same blog has a global audience, 45,000 hits a month and receives contributions from a diverse user base.

34. Before long, a number of other blogs started to appear…

35. … all inspired by DIGWWW

36. September 2006

37. An idea was put forward at a DIGWWW meeting….

38. … hold a week of web 2.0 related workshops and seminars

39. At the same time a new term emerged, for web 2.0 within the enterprise…

40. Enterprise 2.0 aka E2

41. … thus was born the concept of E2 week

42. … & e2.***.com

43. November 2006

44. November 2006 e2 week Nov 13 - 17

45. A week of events

46. Showcasing Enterprise 2.0 technologies…

47. exploring the culture…

48. promoting what we already have within the company…

49. Speaker: Dr James Bellini The Future of Blogging within the company MASHUPS WIKIFEVER Speaker: Bill Thompson E2 Blogathon PODCASTS Wikipedia Blogs wikis

51. All sessions were podcast and made available for immediate download.

52. Local event. Global audience.

53. Thought leaders from across the org participated in our Blogathon.

54. An opportunity to be heard for many

55. it was also at e2 week we met…

57. Bill Thompson Nice guy BBC journalist “ tame geek” Technology critic

58. He thought we were interesting (?) so has been back a few times to participate in DIGWWW meetings.

59. Was e2 week a success?

60. 150 blog posts

61. 324 comments

62. 298,597 hits to date on e2.***.com

63. a worldwide audience

64. a massive success

65. December 2006

66. Conference Reports was launched

68. An open system for anyone in the company to post conference reports

69. We wanted to get the most out of the $$$ we spend sending people to conferences

70. Now we have a platform to share your conference knowledge with the rest of the company

71. RSS enabled

72. Blogging enabled

73. Subscription enabled

74. Tagging enabled !

75. Leveraging knowledge Conferencereports.***.com

76. January 2007

77. DIGWWW started looking at Social Bookmarking

78. that’s tagging content, and making it available online

79. open source and paid for systems were identified…

80. more on this later…

81. February 2007

82. News travels fast and far…

83. ..and Simon Revell is asked to address an audience of business leaders in Vienna

84. the topic

85. Web 2.0 within the firewall

86. the response?

88. Pretty good!

89. We learnt we were ahead of the curve in the evaluation and adoption of web2.0 / enterprise 2.0

90. Which is thanks in part to DIGWWW

91. Also in February…

92. Attensa RSS plugin for Outlook

93. An RSS reader discovered by DIGWWW…

94. Is rolled out via the helpdesk

95. … so now anyone within the company can subscribe to RSS feeds via their inbox

96. March 2007

97. A broom cupboard in Sandwich was converted to a community podcast studio.

98. An old room… with older kit…

99. A perfect setting for some free innovation! podcasting!

100. Now anyone can create a podcast

101. Also in March…

102. Ben Gardner spoke at the IPI-ConfEX conference…

103. He told them about some of the DIGWWW work

104. and demoed some of the tools we use, including…

105. W.O.S aka web server on a stick

106. DIGWWW use it for safely evaluating new web2.0 tools

107. the response?

108. Once again we were told how ahead of the pack we were in comparison to other companies

109. April 2007

110. Another request to speak……..

111. This time for Scott Gavin & Simon Revell

112. To address the British Computer Society… … at Canterbury University

113. The topic

114. Web 2.0 & Enterprise 2.0

115. It was at this talk the world began to…

116. meet Charlie

117. Telling the story of how enterprise 2.0 is changing the way we work ….

118. the response?

119. a fantastic response from the BCS & the University…

120. plus Scott’s ‘Meet Charlie’ has been viewed by 20,000 people around the world

121. … and Scott ( with Charlie ) is now being referenced as an industry expert!

122. all this from DIGWWW beginnings…

123. May 2007

124. Remember the tagging?

125. DIGWWW is launching…

126. tags.***.com

128. an invite only beta

129. user groups will take up social bookmarking for the first time

130. open source software…

131. … the potential for transforming info sharing and retention

132. June 2007

133. DIGWWW starts planning for an Enterprise 2.0 week in the U.S…

134. Securing a slot at the iLearn week…

135. Advising group x on e2 and its state at the company…

136. Talking to Group A…

137. More… ..Departments Another…

138. The freedom of information topic was started…

139. challenging the way we store & access our information

140. Topics

141. DIGWWW has discussed and explored the following topics

142. RSS

143. Mash Ups

144. Tagging

145. Widgets

146. Blogs

147. Wikis

148. Culture

149. Numbers

150. Remember those sites we mentioned?

151. conferencereports.***.com e2.***.com digwww.***.com

152. Some Statistics

153. Conference Reports launched December 2006

154. 93,438 hits

155. e2 launched November 2006

156. 298,597 hits

157. digwww launched August 2006

158. 373,434 hits

159. Annual DIGWWW Budget ?

160. $0.00

161. Thoughts

162. It started with a..

163. Outlook meeting invite to some UK folk 12 July 2006

164. It’s fuelled by…

165. the desire to connect & collaborate

166. passion

167. innovation

168. and

169. anyone who wants to take part

170. Happy 1 st Birthday DIGWWW

171. Slides by: Scott Gavin

172. The End…