Category: Information Creation

Shift Happened – Part 3: Capturing Decisions in Social

Aug 28, 2014

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Complexity Lenses, Enterprise, Information Creation, Knowledge Management, Refindability, Shift Happened, Social Lenses

In the last 5 years many people have been working amidst a shift in how they work digitally and where they interact digitally with colleagues. They also realize the product of their work may have shifted as well. The work product has long been presentations, white papers, spreadsheets, general reports, etc. These deliverables are products…
Shift Happened – Part 2: Small Apps Loosely Joined

Apr 8, 2014

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Connectivity, Design, Devices, Enterprise, Information Architecture, Information Creation, Knowledge Management, Mobile, Model of Attraction, Portability, Shift Happened, Standards, Technology, Tools, User Experience, Web

What are Small Apps Loosely Joined? There has been a large shift in how many people work today and part of that is in the tools that they use to get work done. This shift in work patterns mirrors the shift that many had in their personal lives around social interactions and productivity. Late one…
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, Complexity Lenses, 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…
Social Reticence of a Click

Jan 10, 2012

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Enterprise, Information Creation, Knowledge Management, Social Software, sxd, Technology

A few years back I was talking about problems many people having problems with social interaction elements in their work social platforms (where it really clicked were many early adopter types who have used social web tools for many many years running into issues). The problems related to activities they thought were private were showing…
Social Scaling and Maturity

Mar 5, 2011

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Enterprise, Information Creation, Knowledge Management, Personal InfoCloud, Social Software, sxd

In 2006 I started using this graphic to explain social scaling and functionality around social tagging systems (then the x-axis was “times an object tagged”), as it helped bring to light the reality of what was to come from use. But increasingly I also used it to explain general social software maturation that echoed social…
A Response to Enterprise 2.0 What a Crock

Aug 27, 2009

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Enterprise, Information Creation, Knowledge Management, Local InfoCloud, Refindability, Social Software

The following is a response to Dennis Howlett’s “Enterprise 2.0 What a Crock” ZDNet post (ZDNet login continually is broken for me, so I am posting here). I like this take. But, the big thing most organizations are looking to solve is the horrendous platform that is called the intranet. Most of my work with…
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…
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…
Stewart Mader is Now Solo and One to Watch and Hire

Aug 18, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Enterprise, Information Creation, Knowledge Management, Social Software, Tools

There seems to be many people that are joining the ranks of solo service providers around social tools. Fortunately there are some that are insanely great people taking these steps. Stewart Mader is one of these insanely great people now fully out on his own. Stewart Mader’s Wiki Adoption Services are the place to start…