“A recent MIT study found that in one organization the employees with the most extensive personal digital networks were 7% more productive than their colleagues…In the same, organization, however, the employees with the most cohesive face-to-face networks were 30% more productive.”

Obviously, people can self-organize via meet-ups, but there’s a definite advantage to bringing tens to hundreds to thousands of members together on a regular basis. To this end, we’ve tried taking small steps, such as making attendee lists available to education course registrants as soon as they register, and linking these lists to our member directory. I think we can do a much better job of promoting that this information is available, and encouraging members to use this information to build business relationships.

We’ve entertained the idea of building community around conferences — getting a blog started to inform members about the conference, holding World-Cafe style sessions a few months after the conference to let members share ideas on real-world results they’ve been able to achieve or problems they’ve encountered, and creating a listserv to allow attendees to remain connected. Thus far, we haven’t really done anything on this front, but there are possibilities there.

I guess I would disagree with the previous poster that the Web 2.0 boat has been missed. Even if we’re not an early adopter of a technology does not mean that a later implementation won’t be useful, as long as it serves an otherwise unfulfilled need.

For the rest of the readers a definition from Wikipedia so we are all on the same page:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Web 3.0 is one of the terms used to describe the evolutionary stage of the Web that follows Web 2.0. Given that technical and social possibilities identified in this latter term are yet to be fully realized the nature of defining Web 3.0 is highly speculative. In general it refers to aspects of the Internet which, though potentially possible, are not technically or practically feasible at this time.

Oh, if others hate the title I’m open to suggestions! I’m all about change.

Horrible title too.