I was going to say what a crappy day but on reflection it’s not been too crappy, just weird.
For the first time I heard the words “governance panel” and “social software” in the same sentence. Quite strange. It was OK though since I was being asked to be on the governance panel. Not sure what I’m going to govern with the other people on there but I guess we’ll figure it out. The good thing about it is that we’re seriously moving forward with social software at work and that can only be a good thing.
The other weird thing was I found myself waxing lyrical about SharePoint which I haven’t done for a while. I was explaining to someone about how to create simple to-do lists and run labs based on them and how they could ditch about 5 different excel sheets in favour of one list with a variety of views (See I’m even getting excited about it now!) That was counter balanced with the look on her face when I started talking about access control. There was a look of relief when I said she could just ignore it and in true social style just leave it open to everyone. (Microsoft – If you’re listening, ditch all of the access control in SharePoint and replace it with two options, you can do everything or you can do nothing, I’ll even let you have a read only option if you want.)
Then the other thing, the one that nearly pushed the day into the crappy category, was the amount of corporate crap I had to wade through today. One thing you can get used to, addicted to even, when you start living the social software lifestyle is the ease and simplicity that accompanies everything. You ask someone to do something and if they can then they say yes, if they can’t they say no. You suggest something and people tell you when it’s a good idea and even better they tell you unanimously when it’s a rubbish one. With the old school corporate rubbish you waste three hours in meetings while someone with an over-inflated ego tells you why you should do something a certain way because that’s what he thinks. Anyway, let’s forget about that shall we and focus on how good social software makes life in general.
Right, I’m off to watch the rest of Fifth Gear (much better than Top Gear these days!), then plan my weekend of rugby watching and then get stuck into a book I bought when I was having coffee after work.
Laters.
