My vision with E2.0

The following is my dream of how people are tapping technology to improve the way we work.

Imagine a following scenario:

1) A company's marketing department is having their monthly department meeting. Each of them has a laptop in front of them.

2) One of the members, Wayne is on an overseas assignment, but he manages to join in the meeting via tele-conferencing.

3) The department head, Mr Ho starts by presenting the meeting agenda on a blog post announcement

4) While Mr Ho is talking, several colleagues who want to talk will press a button to indicate his/her interest. Johnny manages to get the right to speak via the acknowledgement from the system. He knows he can start talking once Mr Ho finishes.

5) As Mr Ho is speaking, his speech is transcribed into text via the voice-to-text application and appears in the chat window.

6) When he stops, the Johnny continues on with his report. The other users references to materials in his report via a wiki link in the dept meeting blogpost.

7) Mr Ho interrupts Johhny's presentation with a question. The system intelligently notices that it is Mr Ho (via volume from the mic) and updates the current speaker in the chat window

8) As the meeting goes on, Stephanie (the secretary for the meeting) highlights the main points in the chatrooms with her laptop. She can also indicate whether this is a task and who is the assignee to follow up.She can also remove portions that are not relevant which can be undone.

9) The big boss Colin enters the room because he just ended another meeting next door. He logs in the chatroom to scan through the highlights to find out what has been discussed so that he has the context to join in the discussion effectively.

10) At the end of the meeting, the team scans through the chat window to review the meeting highlights and deletes any non-relevant stuff.

11) The podcast is generated with the non-relevant portion removed. The draft for the meeting minutes is generated instantly with the highlights and minor edits done by Stephanie. Wayne's dashboard on his personal homepage will also be updated with the additional tasks assigned to him during the meeting.

12) All the relevant documents are stored as a link in the meeting blogpost so that others can reference it in future if needed. The entire department will get notified via RSS.

With this setup:

• The geological barrier can be reduced. It might be possible to people to work from home or go on longer holidays without affecting their work.


• Meetings can start on time without waiting for everyone to be present


• There is no need to spend time to review meeting minutes and passing emails around


• Information can be accessed conveniently without having to print reports that will be useless after the meetings


• Tasks can be tracked easily and workload can be distributed more evenly


• Time is saved without having someone to draft the minutes for every meeting.