Category: sxd

Urban Planning to Social Business: Social that Scales

Mar 14, 2012

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Thomas Vander Wal

in City Planning, Community, Enterprise, Knowledge Management, Social Lenses, Social Software, sxd, Urban Planning, User Experience

Overview In November of 2011 Gordon Ross and I presented What Urban Planning Can Teach Us About Social Business Design at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara (the presentation is loaded at the end of this post). I was excited about the presentation as it was a great opportunity to place the foundations of…
Getting Beyond Simple Social

Mar 3, 2012

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Enterprise, Knowledge Management, Social Software, sxd, Technology, Tools, User Experience, Web, Web/Tech

“Social is hard!” is something I hear repeatedly by most of my clients and those I talk to. It is one of the issues I continually run across in my work with organizations trying to better understand social software and collaboration tools for their organization as well as helping vendors better understand their gaps and…
On the Way to the Next Big Thing

Feb 15, 2012

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Identity, Model of Attraction, Personal Info, Personal InfoCloud, PKM, Refindability, Social Software, sxd, Web

This was written in April 2011 and a publication had interest in publishing it, but it didn't fit their editorial cycle so it sat. I have annotated this with an endnote to bring it current. A funny thing happened on the way to the next big thing, the big thing was little. Many people are…
Cooperation, Coordination, and Competition

Jan 12, 2012

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Attraction, Community, Enterprise, Location, Social Lenses, Social Software, sxd, Urban Planning

There has been a lot of discussion of late in the social media circles about cooperation and how all social tools and services and their managers need to embrace that model. What is really clear is they have never run or tried to run social environments at any scale that have a broad representation of…
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…
40 Plus Social Lenses

Apr 19, 2011

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Identity, Knowledge Management, Model of Attraction, Personal InfoCloud, Social Lenses, Social Software, sxd

Lately, I've been getting asked what I am working on beyond client work, as there have been things popping up here and there that hint something is brewing. Well, there is and there isn’t something new, but something (one of my things has been drawing my attention). It started in Summer or early Fall 2010…
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 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…
Removing Trust

Jan 25, 2011

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Enterprise, Identity, Knowledge Management, Social Software, sxd, Technology, User Experience, Web, Web/Tech

About two years ago I made a conscious effort not to use the term “trust” and encouraged those I was engaging for work and social interactions not to use the term. The problem is not the concept of trust, but the use of the term trust, or more accurately the overuse of the term trust.…
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.…