This morning I had the good fortune to be part of Enterprise 2.0's panel (chaired abley by Melanie Turek) on Presence 2.0. Five panelists, including myself, Parlano's Nick Fera, Microsoft's Paul Haverstock, IBM's Dave Marshak, and Jabber's Joe Hildebrand. The panelists universally viewed IM presence as an early presence application, and focused on where the future of Presence would be.
Probably the most thought provoking presentation of the five was Hildebrand's. He views presence as a collection of documents describing changes in your identity over a period of time. From that point of view, presence can include anything. I didn't ask the question, but he would probably view Facebook as a presence application.
The other intriguing presentation was Nick Fera's. The Parlano view is that by persisting chat sessions, one can tap into the collective intelligence of the organizations, and overcome many of the current limitations of presence.
My presentation linked here. And a nice writeup from Joe Thornley here.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
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