Once upon a time, in a land far, far away…

Actually on 11 May 2004, Matt Mower 'IM'ed me that he and Paolo Valdemarin (both of evectors and k-collector fame) had been talking about arranging a "Social Networking for Enterprises" event in London.

They were inspired by the fact that both Stowe Boyd and I are going to be in Nice, France to present at the iDate conference on 15-16 July 2004. Stowe and I had both, separately, expressed our individual interests in getting together with our EU cohort for some type of event.

Subsequently, on 18 May 2004, there was an IRC chat with a number of folks—including Matt Mower, Marc Canter, Martin Roell, Ross Mayfield (host of the Social Tools for Enterprises Symposium Socialtext space), Paolo Valdemarin, Lilia Efimova, Lee Bryant, Suw Charman, a number of others, and myself. Since that day—many emails and IM chats later—this event has really begun to take shape. Largely thanks to the un-flagging efforts of Matt Mower. Go Matt!

In London, on 12 July 2004, there will be an "event aimed to be a practical get go for CxO's in Enterprises as to how social tools & methods can help them with problems like insufficient collaboration, low innovation and unmanaged risk" according to some early thoughts from Matt Mower's weblog…

Stowe posts a link to the venue information for this London Symposium, scheduled to take place at the Bloomsbury Square Training Centre and which is now being organized by KM Cluster.

More as the date continues to draw nearer… (-:=