Category: Portability

Slack is more than chat: Why it is the trojan horse to better enterprise

Aug 25, 2015

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Applications, Enterprise, Knowledge Management, Local InfoCloud, Portability, Refindability, Social Software, sxd, Technology, Tools, User Experience

During the last couple of years, since Slack has been publicly available, it has taken off like wildfire. To many it is “just a chat service”, which gets derided and belittled like most chat services do. This is until they find that chat has not only a place in organizations it has lasting value in…
Shift Happened – Part 2: Small Apps Loosely Joined

Apr 8, 2014

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Connectivity, Design, Devices, Enterprise, Information Architecture, Information Creation, Knowledge Management, Mobile, Model of Attraction, Portability, Shift Happened, Standards, Technology, Tools, User Experience, Web

What are Small Apps Loosely Joined? There has been a large shift in how many people work today and part of that is in the tools that they use to get work done. This shift in work patterns mirrors the shift that many had in their personal lives around social interactions and productivity. Late one…
Shift Happened – Part 1: More Productive Not Using Productivity Tools

Mar 4, 2014

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Applications, Community, Content Mangement, Devices, Enterprise, Information Creation, Knowledge Management, Mobile, Portability, Shift Happened, Social Lenses, Social Software, sxd

Over 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,…
Broken Decade Precedes It Works Decade

Apr 28, 2013

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Enterprise, Mobile, Personal InfoCloud, Portability, User Experience

I had long forgotten this Carl Steadman response to Michael Sippy’s “Just One Question – What do you want for Christmas”, but the response from 1997 is fantastic and frames the 1990s as the broken decade. (I’ll wait for you to go read it) I’m not so sure that Carl’s broken decade got better in…
On Fire with Social Progressions

Aug 12, 2010

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Information Architecture, Knowledge Management, Portability, Refindability, Social Software, sxd

When talking with organizations about social tools and logical social flows for information from ideas all the way to formal outcomes (white papers, process docs, product enhancement requirement documents, etc.) there have always been stated steps. Some of these steps have different incarnations and labels, depending on how things are done conventionally. But, there is…
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…
Enterprise 2.0 Boston – After Noah: What to do After the Flood (of Information)

May 29, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Conferences, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Knowledge Management, Personal Info, Personal InfoCloud, Portability, Refindability, Social Software

I am looking forward to being at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston from June 10 to June 12, 2008. I am going to be presenting on June 10, 2008 at 1pm on After Noah: Making Sense of the Flood (of Information). This presentation looks at what to expect with social bookmarking tools inside an…
Enterprise Social Tools: Components for Success

May 6, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Community, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Identity, Interface, Knowledge Management, Local InfoCloud, Personal Info, Personal InfoCloud, Portability, Social Software, Technology, User Experience, Web, Weblogs

One of the things I continually run across talking with organizations deploying social tools inside their organization is the difficultly getting all the components to mesh. Nearly everybody is having or had a tough time with getting employees and partners to engage with the services, but everybody is finding out it is much more than…
Getting Info into the Field with Extension

May 2, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Accessibility, Community, Connectivity, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Interface, Knowledge Management, Model of Attraction, Portability, Reference, Syndication, Technology, Tools, Web

This week I was down in Raleigh, North Carolina to speak at National Extension Technology Conference (NETC) 2008, which is for the people running the web and technology components for what used to be the agricultural extension of state universities, but now includes much more. This was a great conference to connect with people trying…
Explaining the Granular Social Network

Apr 15, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Attraction, Attraction Receptor, Community, Folksonomy, Knowledge Management, Local InfoCloud, Model of Attraction, Portability, Privacy, Social Software

This post on Granular Social Networks has been years in the making and is a follow-up to one I previously made in January 2005 on Granular Social Networks as a concept I had been presenting and talking about for quite some time at that point. In the past few years it has floated in and…