Twelve months ago, in October 2008, The Guardian interviewed Chris Hambly and me on social media skills and 'unconferences'.  We tried to get over the huge generational gap in skills and the threat to large organizations who aren't keeping up.

Since this article was first published, we've seen a Twitter's challenge to the hiding of Parliamentary expenses, the realtime reporting of a plane crash in the Hudson, the earthquake in China and a terrorist attack in Mumbai, and the Guardian's use of an open data base to analyse the expenses data.

The Guardian republished its original article in June 2009. My name is still spelt wrong.  But I was pleased.  The original was published17 months after I arrived in UK thanks in most part to my membership of the Social Media Mafia.

Jo Jordan quoted by The Guardian about social media skills, unconferences and the impact of social media skills on the competitiveness of organizations.