Because I am going to be attending and presenting at BarCamp Harrisburg I have been putting a lot of thought into what my discussion topic should be, and I have three things that have been rattling around in my head for a while now. I am going to decide on one of them within the next week so I can begin to compile my materials.
Here are the things I've been thinking about:
- Incorporating social tools into existing business applications. - I want to be able to examine how you could change existing applications into something more collaborative and connected. I'm not crazy about this topic, but since I am a developer I do think about these types of things.
- Social Project Management - I think Project Management is one area that could use more social interaction, collaboration, better searching, more integration with different types of media, and it's something that I've been aching for. I want to put some thoughts together on how to make this happen.
- Running a Social Media Consulting Business - The other thing that's been really consuming my thoughts is how to run a consulting business that helps connect companies with social tools like Twitter, Facebook, and the like to be more responsive to customers and grow. I believe a lot of companies are afraid of these types of tools and they shouldn't be. I think there is a great opportunity for the right company to come forward and help others understand and join the social web. I would do this as a practice run for presenting to my own company. I don't want to hide that. I want to sell this idea to my company.
So those are my topics. I'm going to probably pick two of them and prepare them both.
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