Category: Content Mangement

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…
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,…
The Future is Now for Information Access

May 23, 2006

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Attraction, Coding, Content Mangement, Devices, Information Creation, Local InfoCloud, Marketplace, Mobile, Personal InfoCloud, PKM, Portability, Standards, Syndication, Ubiquitous Computing, User Experience

An interview with Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer in the in the San Francisco Chronicle regarding Steve’s thoughts about the future of technology, information, and Microsoft (including their competition) sparked a few things regarding the Personal InfoCloud and Local InfoCloud. It could be the people I hang out with and the stay-at-home parents I run across during…
PC Forum Eventspace – Users Make Content Their Own

Mar 28, 2004

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Content Mangement, Information Creation, Marketplace, Personal Info

PC Forum Eventspace – Users Make Content Their Own seems to have only part of the equation correct.
Tools to Manage Information On Your Personal Hard Drive

Mar 5, 2004

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Applications, Content Mangement, Information Creation, Reference, Ubiquitous Computing

I have been battling the management of information on my personal hard drive on my TiBook. This is one element in my Personal Info Cloud (a self-organized information system that is managed by me and is there to assist me when I need information). I have been finding that my organizational structure is lacking on…
A Look at iPIM and Chandler

Nov 1, 2003

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Connectivity, Content Mangement, Information Creation, Mobile, Portability, Technology, User Experience

There are two articles that are direct hits on managing information for the individual and allowing the individual to use the information when they needed it and share it as needed. Yes, this is in line with the Personal Information Cloud. The first article, The inter-personal information manager (iPim) by Mark Sigal about the problem…
RSS on PDAs and Information Reuse

Oct 19, 2003

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Content Mangement, Information Architecture, Information Creation, Mobile, Portability, Standards, Syndication, Technology, Web

Three times the past week I have run across folks mentioning Hand/RSS for Palm. This seems to fill the hole that AvantGo does not completely fill. Many of the information resources I find to be helpful/insightful have RSS feeds, but do not have a “mobile” version (more importantly the content is not made with standard…
Welcome to the Personal Info Cloud

Oct 18, 2003

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Content Mangement, Information Architecture, Information Creation, Mobile, Portability, Weblogs

Welcome to the Personal Information Cloud. In the digital realm we have various pockets of information all tied to clouds. The most commonly understood cloud is the Global Information Cloud, i.e. the Internet. There is a plethora of information in this Info Cloud, but often there is too much information and the users are flooded…