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Is Enterprise 2.0 about selling software or solving problems?
The Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston was very interesting, and reflected a maturing market for enterprise social computing - but can it avoid the vendor dominance that helped kill off KM? read full post
(Non) Adoption of social computing in organisations: busyness or laziness?
Too much focus on very simple ROI measures can be a problem for the adoption of social tools. Olivier argues that we must resist the temptation to turn evolving methodologies into recipes for "best practice" read full post
Bottom-up and inside out - the future of enterprise IT?
Software as a Service is a potentially transformational delivery model that could put functionality and control in the hands of lines of business rather than just IT, and it will play a key role in the future of what people are calling Enterprise 2.0 - but how and when will that happen? read full post
SNA tools: what are we measuring?
SNA tools have a certain allure, since they sound logical; but the problem is the data we have to feed them. Email and Document stores are not enough to produce a real picture of organisational networks. We need first to create the myriad of weak signals that can allow online social networks to develop before we can hope to derive actionable intelligence. read full post
What form will Enterprise 2.0 take?
Demand is growing for Social Software and Enterprise 2.0 tools, and the value proposition is clearly very strong compared to traditional enterprise systems. But how do you go about delivering this value in corporate networks that are more used to fixed systems than iterative, evolving social tools? What sort of new approaches should we be thinking about to make the most of the fluid nature of Enterprise 2.0 tools? 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
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
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
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
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
Social Software and the Enabling Council
Anna Randle writes today in eGov Monitor about Social Software and the Enabling Council. 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
Dust or Magic?
Dust of Magic conference will have a day devoted to social/sociable software - see you there I hope read full post
Let's embrace the commoditisation of software
Software commoditisation will mean that we have to focus on usage, purpose and adoption rather than constantly inventing new widgets. 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
Good research weblog into social software
Tom Smith's Ultralab blog has got going read full post
KM and e-learning
KM, e-learning both better served by informal social software 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
Report on "Selling Social Software" event
Short report and presentation links from our "Selling Social Software" event earlier this week read full post
Affinitiz: a French-language online community
French online community site moving towards becoming a wider social software platform 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
The Future of Knowledge Management?
Dave Pollard's new paper on the future direction of KM read full post
TechKnowledgy applications for individual effectiveness
Dave Pollard wants KM and IT to unite to produce simple, personal TechKnowledgy tools read full post
Collaborative proposal writing using simple Wiki software
Case study of collaborative proposal writing using simple socal software read full post
Skype - a 'phone system that works?
Kazaa co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom have a new target: the telephone industry read full post
Fascinating discussion of complexity theory applied to software development
Can we apply the idea of devolved simple rules implied by complexity theory to the behaviour of programming teams? read full post
The problem with Social Networking sites....
Social networking sites are not interoperable - doh 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
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
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
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
Ambitious new social software platform
HelloWorld preview release is now available 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
More social software thoughts from PC Forum 2003
Cory Doctorow briefly notes the Social Software panel at PC Forum 2003 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
