vanderwal.net Off the TopTail -f of thoughts from Thomas Vander WalLasting Value of Techmeme- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Tristan Louis has a post looking at Is Techmeme Myopic, which is a good look at the lasting value that Techmeme surfaces. This mirrors my use of Techmeme, which is mostly to have a glance at what is being discussed each day. Techmeme has a very temporal value for me as it is a zeitgeist tool that tracks news and memes as they flow and ebb through the technology news realm of the web. Personally, I like Techmeme as it aggregates the news and conversations, which makes it really easy to skip the.http://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=1980 Denning and Yaholkovsky on Real Collaboration- (Found July 8, 2008 ) 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 need. The authors Peter Denning and Peter Yaholkovsky break down the tools needed for various knowledge needs into four categories: 1) Information sharing; 2) Coordination; 3)...http://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=1972 YouTube New Interface and Social Interaction Design Santiy Check- (Found July 8, 2008 ) 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 it has mixed interaction design metaphors for its tabs or buttons. Broken Interaction Design on Buttons or Tabs As the image shows the Share, Favorite, Playlists, and Flag...http://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=1973 Social Tools for Mergers and Acquisitions- (Found July 8, 2008 ) 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, but I will go with great customer service and bags that once in nearly 50 flights did not arrive with me. But, there is a second thing. It is something that...http://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=1974 Explaining the Granular Social Network- (Found July 8, 2008 ) This post on Granular Social Networks has been years in the making and is a follow-up to one I previously made in January 2005 on Granular Social Networks as a concept I had been presenting and talking about for quite some time at that point. In the past few years it has floated in and out of my presentations, but is quite often mentioned when the problems of much of the current social networking ideology comes up. Most of the social networking tools and services assume we are broadline friends.http://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=1975 Getting Info into the Field with Extension- (Found July 8, 2008 ) 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 to bring education, information, and knowledge services to all communities, including those in rural areas where only have dial-up connectivity to get internet...http://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=1976 Enterprise Social Tools: Components for Success- (Found July 8, 2008 ) 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 just the tools that are needed to consider. The tools provide the foundation, but once service types and features are sorted out, it get much tougher. I get...http://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=1977 Enterprise 2.0 Boston - After Noah: What to do After the Flood (of Information)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) I am looking forward to being at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston from June 10 to June 12, 2008. I am going to be presenting on June 10, 2008 at 1pm on After Noah: Making Sense of the Flood (of Information). This presentation looks at what to expect with social bookmarking tools inside an organization as they scale and mature. It also looks at how to manage the growth as well as encourage the growth. Last year at the same Enterprise 2.0 conference I presented on Bottom-up Tagging (the...http://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=1978 Speaking at the International Forum on Enterprise 2.0 Near Milan, Italy- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Under a month from now I have the wonderful pleasure of speaking at the International Forum on Enterprise 2.0, this is just outside of Milan in Varese, Italy on June 25, 2008. I am really looking forward to this event as there are many people whom I chat with on Skype with and chat with in other ways about enterprise and the use of social tools inside these organizations. It is a wonderful opportunity to meet them in person and to listen to them live as they present. Already I know many people..http://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=1979 Selective Sociality and Social Villages- (Found July 8, 2008 ) The web provides wonderful serendipity 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. The piece that struck me regarding building and identifying a common bond with another person came out of Robert Paterson&039;s "Mystery of...http://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=1971 |