Author: Thomas Vander Wal

Pieces of Time, Place, Things, and Personal Connections Loosly Joined

Oct 26, 2009

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Attraction Receptor, Community, Identity, Local InfoCloud, Location, Marketplace, Personal InfoCloud, Social Software, Ubiquitous Computing

There are a lot of people wondering what to do with all the data that is being generated by social tools/sites around the web and the social tools/services inside organization. Well, the answer is to watch the flows, but the pay off value is not in the flow it is in contextualizing the data into…
A Response to Enterprise 2.0 What a Crock

Aug 27, 2009

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Enterprise, Information Creation, Knowledge Management, Local InfoCloud, Refindability, Social Software

The following is a response to Dennis Howlett’s “Enterprise 2.0 What a Crock” ZDNet post (ZDNet login continually is broken for me, so I am posting here). I like this take. But, the big thing most organizations are looking to solve is the horrendous platform that is called the intranet. Most of my work with…
A Conversation on Social Interaction Design with Adrian Chan

Jul 21, 2009

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Enterprise, Knowledge Management, Refindability, Social Software, Web, Web/Tech

Earlier today Adrian Chan and I had an e-mail exchange that both of us enjoyed and agreed it would be good to place it out for public consumption on our blogs. The ideas and concepts differ in their focus and approach, but are similar in that they are trying to reconstruct a much improved social…
Enterprise 2.0 Wrap-up

Jul 7, 2009

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Community, Conferences, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Knowledge Management, Marketplace, Social Software, Technology, User Experience, Web/Tech

Each year the Enterprise 2.0 Conference has been different for me, this was my third year in a row attending. Two years ago there were a organizations trying these tools (other than on a server under somebody’s desk), tool makers were trying to catch-up to potential customer desires, and most consultants were trying to apply…
Social Design for the Enterprise Workshop in Washington, DC Area

Jun 26, 2009

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Information Architecture, Information Creation, Interface, Knowledge Management, Research, Social Software, User Experience, Web, Web/Tech

I am finally bringing workshop to my home base, the Washington, DC area. I am putting on a my “Social Design for the Enterprise” half-day workshop on the afternoon of July 17th at Viget Labs (register from this prior link). Yes, it is a Friday in the Summer in Washington, DC area. This is the…
SharePoint 2007: Gateway Drug to Enterprise Social Tools

Mar 11, 2009

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Knowledge Management, Local InfoCloud, Portability, Social Software, Technology, Travel

Overview The last couple of years I have had many conversations with a broad selection of mid-sized to large organizations. Some of these are customers of mine or potential customers while others are conversations I have had, but all having the similar discussion about social tools in the enterprise. What follows is a collection of…
LinkedIn: Social Interaction Design Lessons Learned (not to follow) – 2 of 2

Feb 10, 2009

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Attraction, Community, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Identity, Information Architecture, Interface, Refindability, Social Software, User Experience, Web

This is the second of two posts on the subject, the first post LinkedIn: Social Interaction Design Lessons Learned (not to follow) – 1 or 2 gives the lead-in to this post. Lessons To Learn Sadly, the new social functionality has broken much of worked well as an ambient social tool. More problematic was LinkedIn…
LinkedIn: Social Interaction Design Lessons Learned (not to follow) – 1 of 2

Feb 9, 2009

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Identity, Interface, Personal Info, Social Software, User Experience, Web, Web/Tech

Why LinkedIn Needs to Have a Better Grasp of Social A heavy user of LinkedIn, I have been hearing identical complaints to my own as regular business networking event conversation fodder for the last six months or more. Light users of LinkedIn as well as those of us who have over 600 connections have nearly…
Optimizing Tagging UI for People & Search

Jan 24, 2009

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Enterprise, Folksonomy, Information Architecture, Interface, Knowledge Management, Social Software, Tools, User Experience

Overview/Intro One of my areas of focus is around social tools in the workplace (enterprise 2.0) is social bookmarking. Sadly, is does not have the reach it should as it and wiki (most enterprise focused wikis have collective voice pages (blogs) included now & enterprise blog tools have collaborative document pages (wikis). I focus a…
Tale of Two Tunnels: Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0

Aug 27, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Community, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Information Creation, Knowledge Management, Refindability, Social Software, Technology, Tools, Weblogs

Yesterday I made a few comments in Twitter that prompted a fair amount of questions and requests for more information. The quips I made were about the differences between Web 2.0 (yes, an ambiguous term) and Enterprise 2.0 (equally ambiguous term both for the definition of enterprise and the 2.0 bit). My comments were in…