VP and Consultant Matthew Lees of the Patricia Seybold Group posted a wrapup of the Enterprise 2.0 conference. He gives SociaCalc some great praise:
Most Compelling Application--Socialtext's new wiki-based, collaborative spreadsheet, SocialCalc, developed with Dan Bricklin, co-creator of the blast-from-the-past spreadsheet VisiCalc (http://www.socialtext.com). The SocialCalc spreadsheet engine is also a project on the One Laptop per Child Program.Matthew shares a number of insights, including this nugget
• Transparency and Candor: Some individuals in organizations who have all the information don't value the social dialogue. But many people crave it. Companies spend millions of dollars a year bringing in consultants from McKenzie and Accenture to find out the truth, because we don't know how to get it from our employees. Social tools naturally bring out that honest dialogue.While only a subset of companies will value such transparency, the third-party consultant analogy is spot on.
