Category: Research

Social Relevance in KM

Apr 5, 2011

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Enterprise, Knowledge Management, Research, Social Software, sxd

Last week Luis Suarez posted a fantastic piece KM, Enterprise 2.0 and Social Business: One and The Same, which was not only dead on, but also brought to the forefront many discussions I have been having over the past few years. The discussions revolve around depth of understanding the social tools inside organizations and the…
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…
The Elements in the Social Software Stack

Jan 9, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Identity, Information Creation, Knowledge Management, Personal Info, PKM, Research, Social Software, Technology, Web

When thinking through social software (also known as social computing, social media, and social web) I have been influenced by many ideas, but at the core there are two things that stick in my head: 1) Good visualization; and 2) Object-centered sociality. Getting the two to mesh, while accounting for most of the important components…
Pew Research on Tagging

Jan 31, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Folksonomy, Research

Lee Ranie of the Pew Internet and American Life Project announced the release of Pew Internet Project Report on Tagging in America. The report also includes an extensive interview with David Weinberger on the subject of tagging. The most interesting parts of this report at the percentages of people in America who tag (includes those…
Keeping Found Things Found

Jan 23, 2004

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Applications, Devices, Personal Info, Research, Web

This weeks New York Times Circuits article: Now Where Was I? New Ways to Revisit Web Sites, which covers the Keep Found Things Found research project at University of Washington. The program is summarized: The classic problem of information retrieval, simply put, is to help people find the relatively small number of things they are…
Building a Web Based E-Notebook

Dec 28, 2003

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Reference, Research, Web

The Journal of Digital Information has an article on Implementation Challenges Associated with Developing a Web-based E-notebook by Yolanda Jacobs Reimer and Sarah A. Douglas. This Journal article seems to cover good research information on personal information aggregation. The e-notebooks discussed are similar to weblogs, but are means of storing information for personal retrieval. The…
IBM Redesigns E-Mail

Dec 13, 2003

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Personal Info, Privacy, Research, User Experience

There is another e-mail redesign in the work, IBM’s Remail is a research project that seems to be on the right track. There is serious need for outlook replacements so that we can have a mail, calendar, and other communication tool that actually works as one needs it to.
Information Structure for Information Reuse

Oct 25, 2003

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Accessibility, Coding, Devices, Information Architecture, Information Creation, Portability, Research, Standards, Technology, User Experience

John Udell’s discussion of Apple’s Knowledge Navigator is a wonderful overview of a Personal Information Cloud. If the tools was more mobile or was shown synching with a similar mobile device to have the “knowledge” with the user at all time it is would be a perfect representation. Information in a Personal Information Cloud is…