Category: Local InfoCloud

Slack is more than chat: Why it is the trojan horse to better enterprise

Aug 25, 2015

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Applications, Enterprise, Knowledge Management, Local InfoCloud, Portability, Refindability, Social Software, sxd, Technology, Tools, User Experience

During the last couple of years, since Slack has been publicly available, it has taken off like wildfire. To many it is “just a chat service”, which gets derided and belittled like most chat services do. This is until they find that chat has not only a place in organizations it has lasting value in…
Thanks to Yi Tan Podcast on Dave Snowden’s Cynefin

Dec 30, 2010

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Enterprise, Knowledge Management, Local InfoCloud, Social Software

Last week Jerry Mikcalsky’s Yi Tan Technology Community podcast was a discussion with Dave Snowden regarding his Complexity Framework Cynefin may have been the epiphany of the year for me. Jerry’s e-mail announcement provided background information so the conversation would have some depth of understanding needed to frame a good understanding (the email content is…
Pieces of Time, Place, Things, and Personal Connections Loosly Joined

Oct 26, 2009

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Attraction Receptor, Community, Identity, Local InfoCloud, Location, Marketplace, Personal InfoCloud, Social Software, Ubiquitous Computing

There are a lot of people wondering what to do with all the data that is being generated by social tools/sites around the web and the social tools/services inside organization. Well, the answer is to watch the flows, but the pay off value is not in the flow it is in contextualizing the data into…
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…
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…
Enterprise Social Tools: Components for Success

May 6, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Community, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Identity, Interface, Knowledge Management, Local InfoCloud, Personal Info, Personal InfoCloud, Portability, Social Software, Technology, User Experience, Web, Weblogs

One of the things I continually run across talking with organizations deploying social tools inside their organization is the difficultly getting all the components to mesh. Nearly everybody is having or had a tough time with getting employees and partners to engage with the services, but everybody is finding out it is much more than…
Explaining the Granular Social Network

Apr 15, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Attraction, Attraction Receptor, Community, Folksonomy, Knowledge Management, Local InfoCloud, Model of Attraction, Portability, Privacy, Social Software

This post on Granular Social Networks has been years in the making and is a follow-up to one I previously made in January 2005 on Granular Social Networks as a concept I had been presenting and talking about for quite some time at that point. In the past few years it has floated in and…
Social Tools for Mergers and Acquisitions

Apr 15, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Information Creation, Knowledge Management, Local InfoCloud, Refindability, Social Software, Technology, Weblogs

The announcement yesterday of Delta and Northwest airlines merging triggered a couple thoughts. One of the thoughts was sadness as I love the unusually wonderful customer service I get with Northwest, and loathe the now expected poor and often nasty treatment by Delta staff. Northwest does not have all the perks of in seat entertainment,…
Denning and Yaholkovsky on Real Collaboration

Apr 9, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Community, Enterprise, Information Architecture, Knowledge Management, Local InfoCloud, Social Software, Technology, Web

The latest edition of the Communications of the ACM (Volume 51, Issue 4 – April 2008) includes an article on Getting to "we", which starts off by pointing out the misuse and mis-understanding of the term collaboration as well as the over use of the practice of collaboration when it is not proper for the…
Selective Sociality and Social Villages

Apr 5, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Attraction, Community, Identity, Local InfoCloud, Location, Model of Attraction, Personal Info, Privacy, Social Software, Technology

The web provides wonderful serindipity on many fronts, but in this case it brought together two ideas I have been thinking about, working around, and writing about quite a bit lately. The ideas intersect at the junction of the pattern of building social bonds with people and comfort of know interactions that selective sociality brings.…