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Enabling the social shift from the centre of the flow
Over the past couple of months, I've spent a lot of time speaking with, and running training courses for, people in the PR and marketing industries. Their roles are changing because customer expectations are shifting - consumers, constituents, audiences and... read full post
Society of the Technical: the common ground between art and social media
So, the first project I've been put to work on since starting at Headshift six weeks ago was the site for Anthony Gormley's One and Other project - a pretty massive undertaking that aims to put 2400 people on... read full post
Critical perspectives on Web 2.0
Deflating the hype bubble? Trebor Scholz and others outline critical perspectives on Web 2.0 in a special issue of First Monday read full post
RSA event on the social impact of the Web tomorrow
A lecture and discussion of the social impact of the web at the RSA with Conservative Shadow Chancellor George Osborne. read full post
Humanising the Enterprise through Ambient Social Knowledge
The solution to information overload is more information, combined with a looser, more intuitive approach to processing it. People make decisions by matching patterns based on a variety of inputs. Ambient knowledge may actually be more effective for decision making in companies than the codified mono-directional memo, email, and task assignment culture. read full post
Weaving a social web from organisational data
Corporate systems do a good job at storing data but a bad job of letting people make sense of it. Social software lets people aggregate and share information they need, creating a social interface onto corporate data and systems. Enterprise doesn't have to mean clunky and expensive.
We will be sharing some recent case studies and ideas about ambient knowledge at ETECH in San Diego and the Blogs & Social Media Forum in London. read full post
Our Social World Conference
Our Social World Conference in Cambridge read full post
Locative social software
Today I'll be mostly thinking about location-based media and communications, it appears read full post
The barbarians at the gates: blogs, social software & PR
Presentation from a talk to the UK Chartered Institute of PR Northern Conference read full post
PledgeBank and other MySociety vignettes
mySociety builds websites "that give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives," serving as demo of the possible to teach the public and voluntary sectors how to use the internet to "improve lives." read full post
Socialtext raise series B finance to scale their social software tool
congratulations to socialtext on their funding read full post
BBC Backstage prototype: social tagging
The wonderful BBC Backstage project gives us the chance to talk about a social tagging prototype we built for the BBC recently. read full post
Les blogs sont arrivee!
Some links to coverage of the Les Blogs conference, plus my presentation available as a PDF download read full post
Are we seeing a European social software boom?
Are we seeing the beginning of a social software boom in Europe? What would a European market for social software tools look like? read full post
Social Software for Social Entrepreneurs
Overview of the social software session at the Skoll World Forum and download of presentations read full post
Report on the Skoll World Forum for Social Entrepreneurship
Social Entrepreneurs are increasingly adopting the idea of social networking as a core activity, and this was a key area of focus at the Skoll World Forum in Oxford last week read full post
pent up demand for social software events?
Thanks to Alistair for a good London blogging event. Where now for events in London? read full post
Social Software as a force multiplier for existing corporate systems
Adopting social software in the enterprise does mean throwing out other systems; in fact, it can bring them to life by layering on user-generated metadata to recombine existing data in new, more flexible ways read full post
What wiki are you?
Talk of wiki wars is silly at such an early stage of market development, but maybe a Harry Potter-style sorting hat can solve the problem? read full post
Blogs are not the only fruit
Blogs may have been a word of the year for 2004, but this piece argues that a wider variety of social software tools and group structures will start to gain widespread adoption in 2005, presenting both challenges and opportunities for those of us who are implementing social tools in an organisational context. read full post
Conference: Exploiting Social Networking in Organizations
Dave Gurteen's 5th Annual Knowledge Conference will focus on Exploiting Social Networking in Organizations and I will be speaking about "Building Informal Knowledge-Sharing Networks using Social Software" (video preview available!) read full post
BlogWalk 4: Social Software in Organisations - Inside the Firewall
BlogWalk 4 brought together a diverse group of London bloggers to talk about using social software in a business environment. read full post
Online Social Networking 2004
Web conference for those interested in OSNs (or YASNs, if you're a bit more cynical). read full post
Can social tagging overcome barriers to content classification?
social tagging (e.g. del.icio.us) is one of the best answers we have to the cost/benefit problem of user-generated metadata, but we lose some precision in the process read full post
Social Software and the Enabling Council
Anna Randle writes today in eGov Monitor about Social Software and the Enabling Council. read full post
Web Informant on Social Networking
Ann Light from usability news points us to a piece by Web Informant: Web Informant #380 suggests that "Social networking may be the next social disease". David Strom brings his personal take to the phenomenon of social networking and says... read full post
Symposium on Social Tools for the Enterprise
Quick report back from the STES event in London, July 12, 2004 read full post
Mapping tags on del.icio.us
extisp.icio.us maps user tags on del.icio.us read full post
Social Tools for the Enterprise Symposium
Social Tools for the Enterprise Symposium, London, July 12, 2004 read full post
From content to connectivity; corporate to personal
knowledge is stored in social structures and networks rather than databases read full post
Observations on internet use in China
what will Chinese social software look like in five years time when the Chinese PC industry becomes one of the biggest in the world read full post
Who do you know?
Roundup of some recent discussions about codifying relationships in online social networks read full post
Dust or Magic?
Dust of Magic conference will have a day devoted to social/sociable software - see you there I hope read full post
New tools on the block
Three new tools to prove that YASNs are not the only social software action in town read full post
ETCON: Social software in action
Some good ideas and examples about using social software in the real world from ETCON 2004 read full post
ETCON: Social networking tools
A roundup of some key ideas and demos relating to social networking tools at ETCON 2004 read full post
Lurkers as potential bridges in social networks
lurking in social netwokrs - not a bad thing, necessarily read full post
Good research weblog into social software
Tom Smith's Ultralab blog has got going read full post
Weblogs more social than social networks
Dina Mehta and Lilia Efimova point out key differences between using Weblogs vs YASNs for augmenting online social interaction read full post
The flight of the Orkut
The first flight of the Orkut was brief, but generated a lot of interest. What does this tell us about the state of online social networking today? read full post
KM and e-learning
KM, e-learning both better served by informal social software read full post
Orkut: possible Google social networking service
Google dipping its big toe in the social networking water? read full post
Network data visualisation
A day of thinking about information visualisation tools read full post
List of (mainly UK) business social networks
list of UK groups that bring together people for business networking purposes read full post
Community groups better at reaching socially excluded than formal training schemes
Public access points such as UK Online Centres has been seen as a way of reaching out to the socially excluded - do they work? read full post
Computer Programs for Social Network Analysis
Links to software for SNA read full post
Are Enterprises Ready for Social Networking?
link to an eWeek piece about online social networking within the enterprise, with quotes from Stowe Boyd read full post
Technology tail wagging the policy dog?
Updated: debate about the way technology leads policy - do we need to focus more on the social and legal aspects of technology-mediated behaviour? read full post
"We-learning": Social Software and E-Learning
Eva Kaplan-Leiserson pulls together thinking about why social software is becoming so popular and how this can be applied to suppport learning read full post
Updated: Social Software Reader
Social Software reading lists are coming thick and fast read full post
The potential impact of replacing social values with market values
Jenni Russell writes in the Guardian about the impact of market values on our social relations and social norms read full post
Social bookmarking in linklogs
Social bookmarking / linklogging tool read full post
Report on "Selling Social Software" event
Short report and presentation links from our "Selling Social Software" event earlier this week read full post
My Society civil society incubator launches
MySociety launch event sees dozens of ideas presented for review read full post
Privacy concerns over online social networking
provacy and authenticity concerns from Weinberger and Dyson about onlinje social networking services read full post
Affinitiz: a French-language online community
French online community site moving towards becoming a wider social software platform read full post
If you have social capital, do you need friendster?
Will friendster be relevant outside the USA, and do communities with "real" social capital need online social networking services? read full post
Microsoft research social computing group
An interesting insight into some of the tools and techniques Microsoft people are experimenting with that involve social networking read full post
social software is not just about making friends
The "familiar stranger" concept: we don't all have to be friends read full post
Three papers on social networking for knowledge sharing
Judith Meskill recommends three papers read full post
Social Networking tools: a bubble in the making?
The signs are there that another wave of VC hype is hitting social networking tools - is it really a major market? read full post
The Future of Knowledge Management?
Dave Pollard's new paper on the future direction of KM read full post
The magic number: 150
The mximum number of people in a cohensive social unit is 150, according to Matt Webb's research read full post
Buzz and Social networks
Research suggests Usenet postings were a good barometer of the 'buzz' around TV shows - will weblogs do the same? read full post
Collaborative proposal writing using simple Wiki software
Case study of collaborative proposal writing using simple socal software read full post
Ratcliffe: social and political networks
Mitch Ratcliffe on emergent polities and the lessons we can draw from social networks in general read full post
Sobering stats from the Small World experiment
Smallworld experiment reports some surprising findings about transmission of information requests beyond first-tier contacts in a social network read full post
The problem with Social Networking sites....
Social networking sites are not interoperable - doh read full post
The Karass and the Granfalloon
How to use SNA to know the difference between your Karass and your Granfalloons. read full post
More SNA tools
Some Social Network Analysis tools read full post
Social Software and the future of events
Ross Mayfield discusses the future shape of trade events and the impact of real-time blogging, Wikis, in-room chat, etc. read full post
Ross Mayfield notes some subjective cartography
Lies, Damn lies and maps... read full post
Social software: danger of group-think?
Seb Paquet links to a discussion about the dangers of polarization of opinion in social software, plus a link to his PHD thesis read full post
Back to the Future with Kevin Werbach
Via elearning guru Jay Cross comes a remarkably prescient piece from Kevin Werbach: "Anticipating a post-Web, post-PC world" read full post
Who do you trust?
iWire reviews a Times article about trust read full post
Ant Attack!
A link-rich ode to the ant on Metafilter read full post
Another social software definition from Darwin magazine
Stowe Boyd provides another definition of social software in a Darwin magazine article about this growing area of development. read full post
Social thermodynamics and mapping the world
Blog of Collective Intelligence: Social thermodynamics and mapping the world read full post
Joi Ito's first thoughts and debate on LinkedIn - a new online social network
Joi Ito on the new LinkedIn online social network read full post
ETCON and the Social Software debate
The Emerging Technology Conference has fuelled the debate about social software and, whilst we are still just thrashing around in the dark, there is a lot of useful thinking going on. read full post
README.DOC
our draft paper entitled "smarter, simpler, social: an introduction to online social software methodology" for review read full post
Ross Mayfield's call for a "social software alliance"
Ross Mayfield proposes a social software alliance read full post
Ever increasing circles: social networks and online communication
Ross Mayfield and Jon Udell drawing concentric and overlapping circles to illustrate social networks and online communication. read full post
Seven UK local authorities commended for social inclusion using IT
Kablenet reports that the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has awarded Beacon status to 7 UK local authorities for improving social inclusion through IT read full post
Ross Mayfield on social network models and the use of ratings
Ross Mayfield on social networking models and the use of ratings systems in social software read full post
Mapping relationships the key to knowledge management?
John McDowall asks whether mapping relationships is the next big step forward in knowledge management read full post
More social software thoughts from PC Forum 2003
Cory Doctorow briefly notes the Social Software panel at PC Forum 2003 read full post
Using email artefacts to map communities of practice
HP Labs have experimented with the analysis of email connections between people to determine their real (as opposed to official) communities of practice. read full post
Roland's survey of social network analysis tools
Roland's emerging technology trends surveys Social Network Analysis tools read full post
Clay Shirky on Social Software and the Politics of Groups
Short review of Clay Shirky's essay "Social Software and the Politics of Groups" read full post
The 2003 Emerging Technology Conference
The O'Reilly "Emerging Technology" Conference will take place in Santa Clara California, April 22-25, with a dedicated track for discussing social software read full post
Draft paper on online social applications
We are just completing the first draft of our paper on building online social applications, and this will be available for download here within the next few days. read full post
