Excerpt from: FAS Talk
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| December 21, 2009 | | When you need 16 (and counting) published rules to achieve effective Google Wave group collaboration, it’s simply not ready for mainstream adoption. |  The Shiny Wave blog recently published a summary of the Rules for Effective Waves (which were culled from a public wave of the same title). As I read through the list of rules, I found myself generally agreeing with all of them. But I was also thinking, this is way too complicated. Google Wave offers the beginnings of a new communications paradigm. But as I have said before, GW is not quite ready for mainstream adoption. Today, GW is a great place for forward-looking techno- and social-media-geeks to experiment and ponder. In that context, GW can already be very effective. But try bringing in an entire organization—the executive team, the sales team, the marketing folks, engineering, support, and so on—and asking them to learn 16 rules (along with a dozen or so others that are not in this list) for using the platform effectively. It ain’t gonna fly. I remain a GW fan and believe it is an important new technology. It’s just not ready for prime time. | | |
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