Slides for the presentation that we gave at Be2Camp North in May 2009. Details/transcript to be published on our blog, at http://www.woobius.com/scribbles . Recorded live stream available at: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1509410

1. Bottom-up
Collaboration

2. Who are we?
Bob Leung Daniel Tenner
Architect Technologist
Foster + Partners Accenture
Make Architects Vocalix Founder
Woobius Founder Woobius Founder
@bobleung @swombat

4. Next generation of
collaboration tool

5. Web 2.0
Text

6. “Let users do what
they want.”
Paul Graham
(Y Combinator)

7. “If you don’t and a
competitor does,
you’re in trouble.”
Paul Graham
(Y Combinator)

8. 3,000
2,500
2,000
1,500
1,000
Nov 08 500
0
Woobius Users

11. Not scalable.

13. They get bounced.

14. Email 1 of ?$#

15. No clear audit trail.

17. Mistakes = Cost Time & Money

18. Make sure people
stick to the system.

19. Administrator

21. Enforcement is not sustainable

22. New approach

24. Designing a
collaboration tool that
people want to use

27. Essential principles
• Allow anyone to initiate collaboration
• Respect collaborative trust
• Allow people to make mistakes

28. Anyone to initiate
collaboration

30. Respect
collaborative trust

31. Allow people
to make mistake
?

33. Computer says YES,
People says NO (or yes!)

35. Allow people to
make mistakes

36. Allow people to
easily correct mistakes

38. Bottom-up
collaboration
• Allow anyone to initiate collaboration
• Respect collaborative trust
• Allow people to make mistakes

39. Designing a
collaboration tool that
people want to use

40. ;-)

41. Questions?
Bob Leung (Woobius), @bobleung
Daniel Tenner (Woobius), @swombat