First meeting: what came up ?

Our first meeting yesterday evening in Paris has been a great opportunity to put a face under the name of each of us, to share first thoughts and ideas on the direction we could give to the club and to understand what happened already after those 6 first weeks.

It has been suggested we could open the debates on more wide topics, not only focused on corporate blogging, but also on any issue a CEO might face in his business life, and of course, if blogs might have been of good help in these situation, then we'd be happy to hear from it.

This idea came after we detected that some of us might be also interested in learning from experiences that actual members, as expert on their markets could share with us.

Then we suggested any one should feel free to use any existing post on its own weblog and republish or crosspost it on the ceobloggers' as we know how time consuming this might be to issue any deep article on a specific subject. Knowing that the most important is to share experience here, not pretending to any kind of exclusivity of content.

Getting the opinion of others on majors topics coming in the world might also be something to share and that we'd like to see here. It might be interesting to learn that some major event happend in Spain, India, Sweden, US or anywhere else and that might announce any evolution or have consequences on an international level. So why not keep us informed on such things.

We also decided to launch our Wiki, as some of us are used to this kind of "collaborative media", and Ludovic Dubost has been working on developing one very intuitive and easy to use to let us also put some informations as profile, bios, etc... and to store the content of the blog in the future for exemple.

I hope this wider editorial line will allow each of us feel more free to share ideas and opinions, please add any comment below if it seems to you I forgot any other relevant issue caming up during our meeting.

Next meeting: thursday the 2nd of December in Paris, save the date ! ;o)

Comments

[Ludovic Dubost]

The wiki link is at the lower right or here:

http://ceobloggers.xwiki.com

Some reports about the meeting are already lined on the page of our first meeting:

http://ceobloggers.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Paris14Oct2004

Don't hesitate to register your profile and edit !

[Oliver Wagner]

what a pitty, that Paris is that far away from here...

[Christophe Ducamp]

Hi everybody. Just another wiki link just to mention that Ludo and I would really hope to succeed in this seedwiki :-) Think the first step could be the updating of home pages with some small photos ? Let's say about 50 * 50 px as on Orkut ?

Awaiting reactions from all participants anywhere on the public web.

Should we write an article like IndicationAuteur.

Tell us :-)

[Bahar Gidwani]

You know the old saying about herding cats? I'd guess that herding a pack of CEOs into a discussion on a single topic would be like getting a large group of assorted hungry lions, tigers, leopards, and pumas, to agree on who gets the first nibble on a gazelle carcass!

To make sense of what we have to contribute, we probably need to "panel" or "moderate" our discussion. That way, the various CEO's commenting will stay "on topic." Also, we may need to refer to our own blogs and get other members to read them and post on them. In that way, our discussions on this forum will start to spread out and influence the audiences who come to our various blogs.

The time I have spent with other CEOs in business organizations (or via my Board) has been incredibly helpful. We lead lonely lives, and need the perspective and help of other people who share our experiences and challenges. Perhaps then the final thing we can do is to bring problems and issues to this group, for discussion and review by our peers?

I wish I could have been in Paris to meet the rest of this group. Hope these comments help us move forward. Let me know what part I and other individual contributors can play.