Category: Enterprise

Getting to Know Collective and Collaborative

Mar 29, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Applications, Community, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Knowledge Management, Local InfoCloud, Personal InfoCloud, Refindability, Social Software

One of the things that has been a little bothersome in the last year or two and has been the lack of understanding between the difference between two terms, collaborative and collective. The two terms are rather similar in definition (in some dictionaries they are nearly identical), but the differences between the two terms have…
Remote Presentation and Perception Matrix for Social Tools

Feb 21, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Conferences, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Knowledge Management, Personal InfoCloud, Privacy, Refindability, Social Software, Technology, User Experience

Today I did something I had never done before (actually a few things) I sat in my office in my home and gave a live web video presentation to a conference elsewhere on the globe. I presented my nearly all new presentation, Keeping Up With Social Tagging to the Expert Workshop in: Social Tagging and…
Challenges as Opportunities for Social Networks and Services

Feb 11, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Enterprise, Identity, Local InfoCloud, Personal Info, Social Software, User Experience, Web

Jeremiah Owyang posts "The Many Challenges of Social Network Sites" that lays out many of the complaints that have risen around social networking sites (and other social computing services). He has a good list of complaints, which all sounded incredibly familiar from the glory days of 1990 to 1992 for IT in the enterprise (tongue…
Getting More Value In Enterprise with Social Bookmarking

Feb 8, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Social Software

The last few weeks I have been running across a few companies postponing or canceling their social computing or Enterprise 2.0 efforts. The reasons vary from the usual budget shifts and staff changes (prior projects were not delivered on time), and leadership roles need filling. But two firms had new concerns of layoffs or budget…
Can Facebook Change Its DNA?

Nov 2, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Enterprise, Identity, Information Creation, Local InfoCloud, Portability, Refindability, Social Software

The posting on Facebook for Business or LinkedIn Gets More Valuable received a lot of feedback and discussion. The e-mail discussions has urged me to post about the Facebook DNA and why it will be tough to transition Facebook into a really valuable tool for business without changing the services to a great degree. A…
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…
A Stale State of Tagging?

Aug 29, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Identity, Portability

David Weinberger posted a comment about Tagging like it was 2002, which quotes Matt Mower discussing the state of tagging. I mostly agree, but not completely. In the consumer space thing have been stagnant for a while, but in the enterprise space there is some good forward movement and some innovation taking place. But, let…
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…
Understanding Taxonomy and Folksonmy Together

Jul 13, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Information Architecture, Social Software

I deeply appreciate Joshua Porter's link to from his Taxonomies and Tags blog post. This is a discussion I have quite regularly as to the relation and it is in my presentations and workshops and much of my tagging (and social web) training, consulting, and advising focusses on getting smart on understanding the value and…