Reality Mining the Organization

I find it hard to believe that any real-world employees anywhere will ever accept Reality Mining the Organization–tracking, recording and analyzing every spoken conversation for Social Network Analysis purposes.

The ‘Perfect’ Corporate Weblogging ‘Elevator Pitch’ Competition

Judith Meskill has put together The ‘Perfect’ Corporate Weblogging ‘Elevator Pitch’ Competition. Here’s the scenario:

A business executive, with whom you have been trying to arrange a meeting, is available for a condensed pitch from you on a one minute elevator ride.

It is your goal to convince this attentive business leader — who has heard about weblogs, and in fact reads a few regularly — to sponsor and resource a critical mass of weblogs in his/her organization so that their benefits can be demonstrated in a meaningful way.

Entries must be 50 to 160 words and are due by midnight (EST) April 15, 2004. There’s no monetary compensation, but Judith promises some excellent ‘sur-prizes’ for the winner.

I’m one of the judges, along with about a dozen others. Thanks to Socialtext for the collaboration space for this project.