Category: Community
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Shift Happened – Part 1: More Productive Not Using Productivity Tools
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Thomas Vander WalOver the past six months or so, I’ve been increasingly hearing from IT leaders in organizations who have been surprised by a shift in how people work digitally. The work patterns related to this shift are far from new and, in fact, are well over a decade old. Nonetheless, some have been surprised by who,…
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Alexander Howard Interview with Christopher (moot) Poole from October 2011 Transcript
The video interview is at YouTube Christopher Poole Interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 4Chan is 8 years old and Christopher founded it when he was 15 years old. Transcript of the core conversation: Alex Howard: … What have you learned along the way? Christopher Poole: I think that I’ve learned more about what not…
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Mistaking the Edges for the Norm
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Thomas Vander WalOne of the best lessons from social quantitative analysis in grad school (public policy) was learning to understand if you are viewing edge cases or the norm (mainstream). Humans have some common traits, but when you start to design or develop any sort of program (be it government services or social software) you start to…
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Urban Planning to Social Business: Social that Scales
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Thomas Vander WalOverview In November of 2011 Gordon Ross and I presented What Urban Planning Can Teach Us About Social Business Design at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara (the presentation is loaded at the end of this post). I was excited about the presentation as it was a great opportunity to place the foundations of…
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Getting Beyond Simple Social
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Thomas Vander Wal“Social is hard!” is something I hear repeatedly by most of my clients and those I talk to. It is one of the issues I continually run across in my work with organizations trying to better understand social software and collaboration tools for their organization as well as helping vendors better understand their gaps and…
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On the Way to the Next Big Thing
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Thomas Vander WalThis was written in April 2011 and a publication had interest in publishing it, but it didn't fit their editorial cycle so it sat. I have annotated this with an endnote to bring it current. A funny thing happened on the way to the next big thing, the big thing was little. Many people are…
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Cooperation, Coordination, and Competition
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Thomas Vander WalThere has been a lot of discussion of late in the social media circles about cooperation and how all social tools and services and their managers need to embrace that model. What is really clear is they have never run or tried to run social environments at any scale that have a broad representation of…
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Social Reticence of a Click
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Thomas Vander WalA few years back I was talking about problems many people having problems with social interaction elements in their work social platforms (where it really clicked were many early adopter types who have used social web tools for many many years running into issues). The problems related to activities they thought were private were showing…
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40 Plus Social Lenses
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Thomas Vander WalLately, I've been getting asked what I am working on beyond client work, as there have been things popping up here and there that hint something is brewing. Well, there is and there isn’t something new, but something (one of my things has been drawing my attention). It started in Summer or early Fall 2010…
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Social Relevance in KM
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Thomas Vander WalLast week Luis Suarez posted a fantastic piece KM, Enterprise 2.0 and Social Business: One and The Same, which was not only dead on, but also brought to the forefront many discussions I have been having over the past few years. The discussions revolve around depth of understanding the social tools inside organizations and the…