Category: Technology

Getting Info into the Field with Extension

May 2, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Accessibility, Community, Connectivity, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Interface, Knowledge Management, Model of Attraction, Portability, Reference, Syndication, Technology, Tools, Web

This week I was down in Raleigh, North Carolina to speak at National Extension Technology Conference (NETC) 2008, which is for the people running the web and technology components for what used to be the agricultural extension of state universities, but now includes much more. This was a great conference to connect with people trying…
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.…
Remote Presentation and Perception Matrix for Social Tools

Feb 21, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Conferences, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Knowledge Management, Personal InfoCloud, Privacy, Refindability, Social Software, Technology, User Experience

Today I did something I had never done before (actually a few things) I sat in my office in my home and gave a live web video presentation to a conference elsewhere on the globe. I presented my nearly all new presentation, Keeping Up With Social Tagging to the Expert Workshop in: Social Tagging and…
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…
Pffft! Social Graph, We Need the Portable Social Network

Dec 6, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Local InfoCloud, Personal Info, Personal InfoCloud, Portability, Social Software, Technology, Web

In reading Alex Rudloff’s "Privacy as Currancy" post I had two thoughts reoccur: 1) privacy is a currency back by trust; and 2) Pfffft! Social graph? Where is my Portable Social Network? I agree with what Alex stated about wanting to move out of Facebook as my trust in them is gone completely (mostly driven…
Stitching Conversation Threads Fractured Across Channels

Jun 16, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Attraction, Community, Information Architecture, Local InfoCloud, Model of Attraction, Personal Info, Personal InfoCloud, Portability, Privacy, Social Software, Technology, Ubiquitous Computing

Communicating is simple. Well it is simple at its core of one person talking with another person face-to-face. When we communicate and add technology into the mix (phone, video-chat, text message, etc.) it becomes more difficult. Technology becomes noise in the pure flow of communication. Now With More Complexity But, what we have today is…
Life Data Stream

Feb 19, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Attraction, Attraction Receptor, Personal InfoCloud, Syndication, Technology, Tools

Emily Chang posted about "My Data Stream", which brought to mind the idea of personal planets. Emily is pulling together the streaming data from her digital life that passes through feeds. Jeremy Keith has written about his life streams and has had a nice interface to Jeremy’s Life Stream for some time now. It was…
Exposing the Local InfoCloud

May 27, 2006

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Applications, Community, Connectivity, Local InfoCloud, Model of Attraction, Personal InfoCloud, Technology

I have spent a lot of time and effort focussing on the Personal InfoCloud, but the past year or two I have been seeing that the interaction between the person and their information resources that are closest to them (the Local InfoCloud) is extremely important. I have gone around the Local InfoCloud looking at ways…