Category: User Experience

Why I Do…

Dec 7, 2009

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Enterprise, Knowledge Management, Social Software, sxd, Technology, User Experience

One 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…
Enterprise 2.0 Wrap-up

Jul 7, 2009

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Community, Conferences, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Knowledge Management, Marketplace, Social Software, Technology, User Experience, Web/Tech

Each year the Enterprise 2.0 Conference has been different for me, this was my third year in a row attending. Two years ago there were a organizations trying these tools (other than on a server under somebody’s desk), tool makers were trying to catch-up to potential customer desires, and most consultants were trying to apply…
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…
LinkedIn: Social Interaction Design Lessons Learned (not to follow) – 2 of 2

Feb 10, 2009

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Attraction, Community, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Identity, Information Architecture, Interface, Refindability, Social Software, User Experience, Web

This is the second of two posts on the subject, the first post LinkedIn: Social Interaction Design Lessons Learned (not to follow) – 1 or 2 gives the lead-in to this post. Lessons To Learn Sadly, the new social functionality has broken much of worked well as an ambient social tool. More problematic was LinkedIn…
LinkedIn: Social Interaction Design Lessons Learned (not to follow) – 1 of 2

Feb 9, 2009

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Identity, Interface, Personal Info, Social Software, User Experience, Web, Web/Tech

Why LinkedIn Needs to Have a Better Grasp of Social A heavy user of LinkedIn, I have been hearing identical complaints to my own as regular business networking event conversation fodder for the last six months or more. Light users of LinkedIn as well as those of us who have over 600 connections have nearly…
Optimizing Tagging UI for People & Search

Jan 24, 2009

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Enterprise, Folksonomy, Information Architecture, Interface, Knowledge Management, Social Software, Tools, User Experience

Overview/Intro One of my areas of focus is around social tools in the workplace (enterprise 2.0) is social bookmarking. Sadly, is does not have the reach it should as it and wiki (most enterprise focused wikis have collective voice pages (blogs) included now & enterprise blog tools have collaborative document pages (wikis). I focus a…
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…
YouTube New Interface and Social Interaction Design Santiy Check

Apr 10, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Enterprise, Information Architecture, Interface, Social Software, User Experience, Web

YouTube has released a new design for the site and its individual video pages. This gets shared in Google Operating System :: User Inferface Updates at YouTube and TechCrunch :: YouTube Updates Layout, Now with Tabs and Statistics. While the new design looks nice and clean, it has one design bug that is horribly annoying…
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…
Challenges as Opportunities for Social Networks and Services

Feb 11, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Enterprise, Identity, Local InfoCloud, Personal Info, Social Software, User Experience, Web

Jeremiah Owyang posts "The Many Challenges of Social Network Sites" that lays out many of the complaints that have risen around social networking sites (and other social computing services). He has a good list of complaints, which all sounded incredibly familiar from the glory days of 1990 to 1992 for IT in the enterprise (tongue…