Category: Refindability

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…
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 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…
On the Way to the Next Big Thing

Feb 15, 2012

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Identity, Model of Attraction, Personal Info, Personal InfoCloud, PKM, Refindability, Social Software, sxd, Web

This 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…
Closing Delicious? Lessons to be Learned

Dec 30, 2010

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Connectivity, Folksonomy, Knowledge Management, Personal InfoCloud, PKM, Refindability, Social Software, Standards, Web/Tech

There was a kerfuffle a couple weeks back around Delicious when the social bookmarking service Delicious was marked for end of life by Yahoo, which caused a rather large number I know to go rather nuts. Yahoo, has made the claim that they are not shutting the service down, which only seems like a stall…
Bing Likes Like, But Does it Mean We Do

Oct 18, 2010

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Enterprise, Folksonomy, Knowledge Management, Model of Attraction, Refindability, Social Software, sxd

Last week Microsoft Bing and Facebook announced Facebook is now part of Bing search. The part that has been touted the most is Bing's inclusion of Facebook Likes. For me this is really surprising as Like has very little value, what little value is has is confounded by it lacks any explicit understanding of intent.…
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…
Understanding the Cost of We Can’t Find Anything

May 20, 2010

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Information Architecture, Knowledge Management, Model of Attraction, Refindability, Social Software, sxd, Technology, Tools, User Experience

One problem I often hear when talking with any organization about new solutions is understanding the cost and inefficiency of their existing way solutions, processes, or general way of doing things. In the past year or two I have used various general measurements around search to help focus the need for improvement not only on…
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…