However, we didn't made the persentation with a wiki tool. We developed a wiki tool in-house using a well known and easy to use technology, presented it and posted our contents online. We then made the presentation and invited everyone in the company to go and give their feedback directly on it... and it's still happening, we're starting a slow page by page process, but our goal is to have a system that is able to do the so called "Presentations 2.0"... but it's an evolution process, and we've just made our first step towards it.

The presentation i'm going to do will be focused on Intel's programs with universities. To be honest, i've read about it the first time on Wikinomics, by Don Tapscott, the same time i was invited to do this presentation. My will is to present it here as a case study, where i hope i can show the advantages on extending our borders like you did, even though this company acts on a completely different market. I strongly believe that looking for new and fresh ideas outside the company walls it's simply widening our possibilities of being ahead of the competition.

Using this Wiki tool, i also wish to widen my possibilities of adding more relevant content to presentation, and make it more fun and easy for the audience to remember it! And if it's possible to interact with new posts during this session... even better! That way i'll be able to talk about the subject, and support my ideas with official contents from you.

Somehow, me and my partner find that PowerPoint presentations are XXth century but still people can't just leave them behind, and the new age we're experiencing tends to lead us to new ways of exchanging ideas, walking towards innovation and making experiments... Meetings 2.0 is really what we're trying to make here at our company, to make a difference, more than what we're going to talk about (you guys at Intel), it's about the way we're going to make it!

Reading this post i had an epifany, and i've said to myself "this is it, look no further!"

We're launching a dicussion group at groups.google.com/group/wikicoffee (wikicoffe@googlegroups.com) at this precise moment, and we're going to invite everyone participating in this meeting to make their questions about Intel, expose their doubts and opinions, from the technician to the CEO... the way i see it, we can both be fired or we can make our point here! ;)

Surely we're not going to be able to make everyone interacting live with us (not enough computers in the room), but we're going to focus on the main questions the will come up and try to provide the audience with answers the best way we can. The better part is that, after our (simple) presentation, the Wiki Coffee group will still be up, and (i sure hope so) receiving further contents to allow full interaction of everyone in this company.

- Last but not least, my special request: is it possible for anyone there at Intel to make a small contribution to open this Wiki Coffee group the best way i can remember? ;) -

Kidding, of course. Nice work on the meeting format experiment.

My group of friends and I use a wiki for notes when we get together for meetings (let's call it a book club.) What I've noticed is that it really helps us all pay attention and contribute, because we know that what is being said is live and being formed right there. It kind of brings an accountability to the meeting, and an internal interest in being involved in what is being created.

In some ways I would call what you did a 'Meeting 2.0'. This is why-

People learn in various ways, and academics have found that it's best to layer different forms when attempting to communicate. That's why it's great to have a visual when also verbally presenting; different people with focus on a different medium depending on how they best learn. And they sink into different parts of the brain.

So when one is verbally presenting with a powerpoint you are in a Meeting 1.0 - that is you can be verbally in a two way conversation and exchange of ideas, but the visual part of the communication is still one way only. The powerpoint is passive and not, in and of itself, conducive to interaction between the creator and the viewer.

However, by using a wiki, you've basically made your meeting '2.0', that is interactive on both the verbal and visual fronts. Instead of a one way relay of information where the viewers are passive, and the relaying of visual information directionally in one way, you've created a visual interaction and conversation.

Well done! Hope it was useful and continues...

And no, I won't admit that my group where we use a wiki is a bunch of engineers playing D&D. I said 'book club'.

I'd love to see us adopt this practice in the whole team. I hate PowerPoint. It's the most abused and mis-used piece of software out there. It has it's purposes, and strengths, but it gets SO abused at Intel that I almost feel sorry for it. I half expect Clippy to come out sometime during a particularly bad eye chart slide and start crying "Why!? Why are you doing this to me!?" ;-)

If we had graphs and charts to review I think it would have been much more difficult, but in that case I really don't know what you can do if someone is really not able to be in front of their computer.