Category: Social Software
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The Tragedy of the Clickspert
The crowd of gurus and experts, particularly in the social media field, is more than annoying, it is troubling. Most have little understanding how things actually work, be it unmediated human social interactions (face-to-face) or people using tools and services to communicate and interact. The mediated interactions not only add complexity to a more pure…
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Bing Likes Like, But Does it Mean We Do
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Thomas Vander WalLast 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.…
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On Fire with Social Progressions
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Thomas Vander WalWhen 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…
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5 Enterprise 2.0 Myth Mantras that Must Die
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Thomas Vander WalThis week's Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston was quite good. It is one of the few conference I still won't miss. The conference is a good mix of vendors, implementers, and those who live with those results while working hard to improve upon this. This conference is a great place to talk with people who…
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Understanding the Cost of We Can’t Find Anything
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Thomas Vander WalOne 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…
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Facebook Makes it Hard to Like Them
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Thomas Vander WalThis past week Facebook made a load of changes to how it works at their F8 conference. Very little of it is new or innovative, other than it is taking the ideas mainstream (and the ideas are poorly executed in usual Facebook style). There are a lot of things that are problematic and troublesome. This…
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The S Word – A Repsonse
Inspired by Andrew McAfee's post, The S Word about the use of "social" when talking to enterprise businesses, I am sharing my response I posted in the comments. I have run into the connotation of social as a term that has associative connotations to the hippy movement (the slide image Andrew uses with his presentations),…
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Why I Do…
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Thomas Vander WalOne question I continually get from many in the web design and dev community is, “Why do you spend so much time focusing on things inside the firewall? You know all the cool stuff is happening out on the open web.” At times I get tired of answering that, but most who know me most…
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Pieces of Time, Place, Things, and Personal Connections Loosly Joined
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Thomas Vander WalThere 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…
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A Response to Enterprise 2.0 What a Crock
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Thomas Vander WalThe 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…