Category: Community

Building Social / Collaboration Platforms

Oct 2, 2017

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Design, Enterprise, Social Lenses, Social Software, Technology

I started my trek designing, developing, and managing social / collaboration platforms in 1996. Over those years I’ve been part of a lot of different projects, development of platforms, long term and short term strategy and planning with vendors in the space, and in recent years back helping design, and product management (from an advisory…
Team Roles Needed for Social Software Projects

Jun 20, 2016

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Content Mangement, Enterprise, Knowledge Management, Refindability, Social Lenses, Social Software, sxd, Technology, User Experience

I have a lot of hands-on designing, developing, and managing of social / collaborative platforms since 1996 and regularly advise product makers, vendors, and buyers around right fitting and understanding then working on solving problems they may have. One of the things that was regularly surfacing around 2007 as enterprise social platforms were getting taken…
Diversity of Enterprise Social Tools

Mar 10, 2016

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Enterprise, Knowledge Management, Social Lenses, Social Software, sxd

One constant in the 20 years I’ve been working in and around organizations and their social platforms is lack of understanding of the diversity of tool types. Today that lack of understanding of the diversity continues, but the diversity and the dimensions in that diversity have increased. Since 2004 I’ve run workshops, given talks, written…
The One Year Club: A seven year review

Jul 22, 2015

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Enterprise, Social Lenses, Social Software

In 2008, or so, I would have semi-regular calls with a friend who was also doing social and collaboration consulting and advising. Stuart Mader and I would set aside 30 minutes or so to compare notes about our client work (these often lasted 2 to 3 hours). The common trait with our clients was most…
Running Podular Teams

May 15, 2015

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Enterprise, Social Software, sxd, Technology, Tools

One of the things that has brought happiness from the Connected Company book being out for nearly three years (now in paperback), is getting the idea of podular teams and organization out there for a wider understanding. From 2001 onward I ran my product and project teams in a podular manner. Since then I have…
Shift Happened – Part 4: The One Social Way (Or not) to Doing Social Really Well in Enterprise

Feb 26, 2015

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Community, Enterprise, Shift Happened, Social Software, User Experience

Having been at the heart of social and collaboration since 1996 (no, I’m not kidding) it is interesting to see how large organizations that are doing social well (>80% employees are active) actually are doing it. The interesting thing is most of these organizations are not using just one service or platform. They are using…
Design Fiction Futures for NYC Libraries

Dec 13, 2014

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Thomas Vander Wal

in City Planning, Community, Design, Design Fiction, Urban Planning, Web/Tech

I have long been a fan of design fiction to frame what the deployment of a design idea looks like after it has been created and is in use. I have used this quite a few times in my own work over the years. But, seeing great examples of design fiction in public isn’t a…
Getting Good Case Studies in Today’s Competitive World

Dec 3, 2014

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Conferences, Enterprise, KM World, Knowledge Management, Social Software, Technology

Efficiency and business advantage is what many businesses see as their differentiator. A week or two back while following the Twitter Stream and some live blogging of Enterprise 2.0 Summit: London I kept hearing how there were no new companies talking about their own case studies than there were a few years back. Many presentations…
KM World 2014 Is a Real Gem

Nov 8, 2014

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Conferences, Enterprise, KM World, Knowledge Management, Social Software, Technology

I’m sitting Saturday morning a little bleary (I don’t sleep well around good conferences) waiting for my coffee that can’t brew quickly enough. This past week I spent most of the days at KM World 2014 in Washington, DC giving a workshop on the first day (Tuesday) “Improving Knowledge Flows: Using Lenses to See Needs…
Shift Happened – Part 3: Capturing Decisions in Social

Aug 28, 2014

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Enterprise, Information Creation, Knowledge Management, Refindability, Shift Happened

In the last 5 years many people have been working amidst a shift in how they work digitally and where they interact digitally with colleagues. They also realize the product of their work may have shifted as well. The work product has long been presentations, white papers, spreadsheets, general reports, etc. These deliverables are products…