Category: Weblogs

Resonance in Sound and Design

May 31, 2013

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Design, Devices, Interface, User Experience, Weblogs

Resonance: The quality in a sound of being deep, full, and reverberating: the resonance of his voice. The ability to evoke or suggest images, memories, and emotions: the concepts lose their emotional resonance. Listening to the lovely and haunting Dead Already from the American Beauty soundtrack by Thomas Newman in high quality recording (lossless) and…
Tale of Two Tunnels: Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0

Aug 27, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Community, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Information Creation, Knowledge Management, Refindability, Social Software, Technology, Tools, Weblogs

Yesterday I made a few comments in Twitter that prompted a fair amount of questions and requests for more information. The quips I made were about the differences between Web 2.0 (yes, an ambiguous term) and Enterprise 2.0 (equally ambiguous term both for the definition of enterprise and the 2.0 bit). My comments were in…
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…
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,…
New Home for Personal InfoCloud

Feb 8, 2005

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Folksonomy, Weblogs

This weblog now has a new domain attached, www.personalinfocloud.com. You may want to adjust your links and aggregation to update this change. Things will look a little funny at the old address. We made this change to be more future ready. We have had the domain for quite some time, but have not tied it…
Welcome to the Personal Info Cloud

Oct 18, 2003

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Content Mangement, Information Architecture, Information Creation, Mobile, Portability, Weblogs

Welcome to the Personal Information Cloud. In the digital realm we have various pockets of information all tied to clouds. The most commonly understood cloud is the Global Information Cloud, i.e. the Internet. There is a plethora of information in this Info Cloud, but often there is too much information and the users are flooded…

Category: Weblogs

Resonance in Sound and Design

Tale of Two Tunnels: Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0

Enterprise Social Tools: Components for Success

Social Tools for Mergers and Acquisitions

New Home for Personal InfoCloud

Welcome to the Personal Info Cloud