Via Nancy White’s onlinefacilitation group today comes a link to an article in Darwin Magazine by Stowe Boyd, Get Real. Stowe blogs at Timing. I met Stowe at KMWorld a few years ago, we connected on a couple of fronts, and we had a terrific brainstorming session with David Weinberger of Joho and the Cluetrain Manifesto fame. It was too much fun. In Get Real, Stowe delves into the implications of embedding presence awareness into the deep infrastructure of business — not just people, but objects like printers, the location of parts, and documents in a review cycle. From a social network analysis perspective, imagine not only knowing what your network looks like, but also being able to know at the same time which of the people in that network are currently online and available, and where they are.

Stowe has named his new business A Working Model. Wish I’d thought of that.