Category: Community

The State of Enterprise Social Software

Oct 17, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Community, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Local InfoCloud, Personal InfoCloud, Privacy, Social Software, User Experience

Last Friday the Read/Write Web post on "Big Vendors Scrap for Enterprise 2.0 Supremacy" post really was bothersome for me. The list of big players and their products in the post seemed to show the sorry state of offerings by the big companies more than it shows they understand the vast improvements that have been…
Open Conversations and Privacy Needs for Business

Aug 12, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Enterprise, Identity, Local InfoCloud, Personal Info, Personal InfoCloud, Social Software

I thought I would share the latest press bit around this joint, Thomas Vander Wal was quoted in Inc Magazine What's Next: Shout it Out Loud (or in the August 2007 issue beginning on page 69). The article focuses the need and desire for companies to share and be open with more of their data…
Sharing and Following / Listening in the Social Web

Jul 24, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Enterprise, Local InfoCloud, Personal InfoCloud, Privacy, Social Software

You may be familiar with my granular social network post and the postings around the Personal InfoCloud posts that get to personal privacy and personal management of information we have seen, along with the Come to Me Web, but there is an element that is still missing and few social web sites actually grasp the…
Inline Messaging

Jul 21, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Attraction, Community, Local InfoCloud, Personal InfoCloud, Social Software, Ubiquitous Computing

Many of the social web services (Facebook, Pownce, MySpace, Twitter, etc.) have messaging services so you can communication with your "friends". Most of the services will only ping you on communication channels outside their website (e-mail, SMS/text messaging, feeds (RSS), etc.) and require the person to go back to the website to see the message,…
The Social Enterprise

Jun 22, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Information Creation, Marketplace, Social Software

I am just back from Enterprise 2.0 Conference held in Boston, where I presented Bottom-up All The Way Down: How Tags Help Businesses Organize (thanks to Stowe Boyd for the tantalizing session title), which was liveblog captured by Sandy Kemsley as "Enterprise 2.0: Thomas Vander Wal". I did not catch all of the conference due…
Stitching Conversation Threads Fractured Across Channels

Jun 16, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Attraction, Community, Information Architecture, Local InfoCloud, Model of Attraction, Personal Info, Personal InfoCloud, Portability, Privacy, Social Software, Technology, Ubiquitous Computing

Communicating is simple. Well it is simple at its core of one person talking with another person face-to-face. When we communicate and add technology into the mix (phone, video-chat, text message, etc.) it becomes more difficult. Technology becomes noise in the pure flow of communication. Now With More Complexity But, what we have today is…
Breaking Down LibraryThing vs. Amazon Tagging Analysis

Feb 27, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Attraction, Community, Folksonomy, Local InfoCloud, Marketplace, Personal InfoCloud, Social Software

I have been rather heads down on a project the last week or two since the Thingolology: When tags work and when they don’t: Amazon and LibraryThing blog post was created. Tim from LibraryThing, who wrote the post, was kind enough to give me an early heads-up and I responded a few days later. I…
Following Friends Across Walled Gardens

Nov 22, 2006

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Identity, Local InfoCloud, Personal Info, Personal InfoCloud, Social Software

Phil Gyford makes his plea for a single social network sign-on or as it was stated last week by Jeremy Keith on Twitter, "portable social network with XFN" [Jeremy posted his More thoughts on portable social networks on his blog.] The single sign-on is an often heard request these days. Nearly as much as a…
Local InfoCloud as a Responce

Jun 27, 2006

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Attraction, Attraction Receptor, Community, Identity, Local InfoCloud, Location, Social Software

Ed Vielmetti posted about neighborhoods, networks, communities, online+offline and I had the following comment. My comment seems to fit in as a follow-up post to the Local InfoCloud post (linked below). The online and offline is very important, but so is the individual and the individual interests we have. There is a huge need for…
Dual Folksonomy Triad

Jun 15, 2006

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Attraction, Community, Folksonomy, Local InfoCloud, Social Software

Needing to Express Folksonomy Simply I have been presenting tagging and folksonomy quite a few times in the past two years. I kept coming back to needing a simple to understand view of what is happening in folksonomy that separates it from general tagging. I also wanted to show how it is relatively easy to…