I had been using Caucus software since 1993 when I joined the gang at Meta Systems and their virtual online community, The Meta Network. I co-taught the first accredited online high school course in creative writing, called Education for the Arts, and then joined Caucus Systems, a startup comprised of all the people I admired: Frank Burns, Scott Burns, Lisa King, etc.

It was there I met Tom Mandel. I just discovered that, while I was at Caucus, Tom penned a white paper, entitled, How Companies Think: Creating Collaborative Intelligence Online. How did I know? I have been bumping into the white paper being sourced. Awesome. Maybe Caucus Systems and Tom Mandel invented Web2.0 and Enterprise2.0 and not all the other also-rans. Bloody small world, isn’t it?
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