Category: Folksonomy

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…
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…
Social Design for the Enterprise Workshop in Washington, DC Area

Jun 26, 2009

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Information Architecture, Information Creation, Interface, Knowledge Management, Research, Social Software, User Experience, Web, Web/Tech

I am finally bringing workshop to my home base, the Washington, DC area. I am putting on a my “Social Design for the Enterprise” half-day workshop on the afternoon of July 17th at Viget Labs (register from this prior link). Yes, it is a Friday in the Summer in Washington, DC area. This is the…
SharePoint 2007: Gateway Drug to Enterprise Social Tools

Mar 11, 2009

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Knowledge Management, Local InfoCloud, Portability, Social Software, Technology, Travel

Overview The last couple of years I have had many conversations with a broad selection of mid-sized to large organizations. Some of these are customers of mine or potential customers while others are conversations I have had, but all having the similar discussion about social tools in the enterprise. What follows is a collection of…
LinkedIn: Social Interaction Design Lessons Learned (not to follow) – 2 of 2

Feb 10, 2009

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Attraction, Community, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Identity, Information Architecture, Interface, Refindability, Social Software, User Experience, Web

This is the second of two posts on the subject, the first post LinkedIn: Social Interaction Design Lessons Learned (not to follow) – 1 or 2 gives the lead-in to this post. Lessons To Learn Sadly, the new social functionality has broken much of worked well as an ambient social tool. More problematic was LinkedIn…
Optimizing Tagging UI for People & Search

Jan 24, 2009

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Enterprise, Folksonomy, Information Architecture, Interface, Knowledge Management, Social Software, Tools, User Experience

Overview/Intro One of my areas of focus is around social tools in the workplace (enterprise 2.0) is social bookmarking. Sadly, is does not have the reach it should as it and wiki (most enterprise focused wikis have collective voice pages (blogs) included now & enterprise blog tools have collaborative document pages (wikis). I focus a…
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…