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Archive for January 2007

What leads a social tool to success?

How many blogs are out there? Almost 150 million, Gartner predicted. How many wikis are available to the public? Loads. However, when you think in terms of the activity that goes down on this sites, figures are not as high as probably expected. And why is thatAccording to Malcolm Gladwell in his book The Tipping… read full post

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links for 2007-01-24

Group Collaboration is NOT Dead (tags: groups groupware enterprise software) Kable – What do you think of your doctor? – 23 January 2007 (tags: health patientopinion nhs) For Success in the Enterprise, Think ‘Platform’ (tags: enterprise software architecture) mind this – by Lars Plougmann: Tooling up for the start (tags: tools socialsoftware sme) Rough Type:… read full post

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links for 2007-01-23

IntelliAdmin.com: The 5 sins of Vista (tags: microsoft vista software) Community Next » The Present and Future of Online Communities Conference (tags: conferences event community) Tag Clouds: Joe Lamantia.com (tags: tags tagging language) The FASTForward Blog » Blog Archive » The pressure of consumer tools (tags: it corporate culture) JPC – Citytech (tags: city media… read full post

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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.

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EU blogging on the rise?

Last week, Mariann Fischer Boel, Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development entered the blogosphere. Welcome, Mariann! As far as I know, is she the second high-ranked person at the EU who blogsShe is following the good example of Margot Wallström , Commissioner for Institutional Relations and Communication who has been blogging for the last two… read full post

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links for 2007-01-22

Get a First Life: A One Page Satire of Second Life (tags: humour funny secondlife) The FASTForward Blog » Blog Archive » Don’t mash on the desktop – mash on the web (tags: mashup) Client Service Insights (CSI) : Basic Assumptions And Your Next Presentation (tags: presentation) Product Development 2.0 (Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog)… read full post

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/Message: Social Media and Public Relations: The Press Release Is Dead

Stowe Boyd on the Social Media Press Release. Sigh.

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links for 2007-01-21

Wordblog » Blog Archive » Where is UK in media blogging league? (tags: uk blogs newspaper stats) Seth’s Blog: Web4 (tags: future ideas) Bloggerheads (UK) – Jackie Danicki, I have a bone to pick with you… uk political bloggers show themselves to be very backward and inward looking (tags: politics stupidity) Friday Poll: What Type… read full post

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links for 2007-01-19

Wikis: The Movie (Lucky Number Slevin) If even Finance information seems to be safe on a wiki, why are people so sometimes so concerned about how private social tools can be? (tags: usecase wiki) Why Johnny Can’t Program (tags: educatio learning programming) Wikis are Not Knowledge Management Tools (tags: km knowledge wiki)

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Corporate wiki survey

Now a survey by Ann Majchrzak , Christian Wagner and Dave Yates underpins what is already known: corporate internal wikis really make a difference. They make work easier, help organisations to improve its processes, collaborate more effectively and enhance individual people’s reputation. Two things in particular help to achieve these benefits: 1) organisations, departments, teams… read full post

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