Peter Christo (Podmatcher.com)
June 20, 2006
Peter Christo interview part 1 (9 minutes, 9 MB): hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~crosbie/Peter_Christo_1of2.mp3
Peter Christo interview part 2 (9 minutes, 9 MB): hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~crosbie/Peter_Christo_2of2.mp3
Peter Christo is a business consultant, internet entrepreneur and commercialisation consultant based in Melbourne Australia. After completing his university studies, he worked with Hewlett-Packard and then spent the next 12 years primarily in Internet based ventures, which included a range of web projects in San Francisco USA in the late 90’s and the Cyberpreneures of Melbourne between 1998 and 2001. Peter spoke on the topic of Internet Business in the 1996 Australian APEC Forum, and has been quoted in a number of eminent publications. Peter recently completed the Master of Entrepreneurship & Innovation (MIE) at Swinburne University of Technology (SUT), and undertakes sessional lecturing work on entrepreneurship. Peter is currently developing a web based business and social networking venture called Podmatcher.com You can find out more about Peter via x2o.com.au, or his blog at blog.x2o.com.au
About Podmatcher.com
Podmatcher.com is a web-based service that makes communities of practice, (CoPs or what we call Pods) knowledge or business networks, and clusters or consortia, visible to stakeholders. (From podmatcher.x2o.com.au June 8, 2006)
Zing from AnyZing in Sydney
April 26, 2006
Zing from AnyZing in Sydney, is a software application to help with electronic-meetings. Con Zymaris mentions Zing in his interview. Con explains how they use Zing as a communication tool for meetings of open source Victoria (OSV). According to Con, Donna Benjamin, who has both theatre and technical backgrounds, plays a vital role in facilitating breakfast meetings, for both on-campus and off-campus participants. Zing is one of Donna's tools of choice.
I will put together a list of links on Zing at del.icio.us/wcrosbie/Zing and at del.icio.us/wcrosbie/Donna_Benjamin
Interestingly, many communities of technical professionals do NOT use technologies to support the idea of dual face to face (f2f)/electronic meetings (I tried chat + face to face once or twice; it's fun but rather chaotic). Is it better to be swamped with emails, and end up too busy to meet people face to face? David Warwick says Zing looks interesting, but there are no plans for the moment to introduce it, or anything similar at CM Pros meetings in Melbourne.
