About Swan (the author)

Robert Swanwick

Robert Swanwick has been working on the business portion of IT projects for 20 years. Over that time he has added the following skills

• eCommerce  in 1997
• content management in 1999
• portals/KM in 2000
• web2.0/enterprise2.0 in 2005
• product management in 2007

Robert currently consults organizations on KM, collaboration, web2.0/enterprise2.0, and event technology.  He currently serves as the Product Manager for School of One. He travels from the DC area.

Businesses that Robert runs:

• Speaker Interactive (@SpkrInteractive) provides “Professional Speakers in Digital Form”.  Online media product for speakers bureaus to supplement their in-person speaker offerings.
• twebevent (@twebevent) provides “Collaborative Media”.  The ability for anyone to merge video (live or recorded) with a Twitter Chat to make it more collaborative.  Free to attend events and free to create/host events
• another business in early stages

Topics on his mind include

• the best use of technology to improve business
• the best use of technology to improve events
• improving business collaboration, innovation, and knowledge sharing
• how media can drive collaboration
• Improving the way we measure business success for better continuous improvement

I hope that you come along for and enjoy the ride.  Please comment early and often.  I will do my best to respond to every comment.