Category: Applications

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 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…
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,…
Donna, Designed for Use, Closes

Feb 1, 2014

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Calendar, Design, Information Creation, Interface, Personal Info, Personal InfoCloud, PKM, User Experience

The impending closing of Donna has bumped a couple of thoughts to blog to the front of the queue. First off, Donna is an iOS calendaring app that focusses on one’s agenda for that day and upcoming days with a targetted focus on the transportation timing and how that impacts your day. If your life…
Mistaking the Edges for the Norm

Jun 22, 2012

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Community, Social Software, sxd, Technology, User Experience, Web/Tech

One 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…
Microsoft and Yammer?

Jun 14, 2012

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Enterprise, Social Software, sxd

Yesterday’s news of the rumor that Microsoft is about to purchase Yammer surfaced and Bloomberg was able to get confirmations there were talks happening. This one seemed a little odd last evening as the rumor broke, but then the ambient signals that myself and others had been seeing with Yammer made sense in that light.…
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…
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…
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…
Denning and Yaholkovsky on Real Collaboration

Apr 9, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Community, Enterprise, Information Architecture, Knowledge Management, Local InfoCloud, Social Software, Technology, Web

The latest edition of the Communications of the ACM (Volume 51, Issue 4 – April 2008) includes an article on Getting to "we", which starts off by pointing out the misuse and mis-understanding of the term collaboration as well as the over use of the practice of collaboration when it is not proper for the…