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11.02.10Teams, Communities, And Social NetworksPerhaps one of the most well-intentioned yet misunderstood categorizations I’ve seen made by a variety of sources has been a segmentation model which draws sharp distinctions between “teams”, “communities”, and “social networks” – essentially treating them as separate entities. Often, it’s influenced by the desire to associate each category with different tooling, or to make a point that social networking represents the missing strategic component within collaboration or knowledge management initiatives. At first glance, the concept makes sense – depicting a simple escalation from team to community to social networking shows a natural transition in the way people within an ...
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10.25.10Expertise Location: Don't Forget Process & Cultural FactorsThe post below on expertise location is an update from an earlier Collaborative Thinking post "Expertise Location: Not Just A Tooling Issue" published on January 28, 2010. We have probably all found ourselves in a situation where we knew there was somebody in the organization that could help us with a problem but we had no idea of how to find them. Over the past few years, as organizations deploy social tools, expertise location has become one of the more common solutions associated with "Enterprise 2.0". ..... Business benefits from automating the expertise lifecycle (e.g., capture, discovery, brokering, connection, privacy) can be compelling ...
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10.12.10W3C Social Web ReportInteresting read covering many different issues. Key topics include: Identity (OAuth, XAuth), Profile (XRD, VCard, OpenSocial), Graph (Open Graph Protocol, semantics), Activity (XMPP, AtomPub, Activity Streams, Salmon) and decentralized social networks (OpenLink data spaces). AbstractThis document is the final report of the W3C Social Web Incubator Group. This report presents systems and technologies that are working towards enabling a Social Web, and is followed by a strategy for standardizing this work in order to ensure the Social Web is open, decentralized, and royalty-free. This report focuses on work that permits the description and identification of people, groups, organizations, as well as ...
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01.09.10Social Graph Engines (Updated)Back in June, I posted some information on social graph engines triggered by my interest in Google Pregel. I still expect this area of social analytics to be a key capability organizations will need to focus on as they deal with large-scale processing of social graph data.I came across the info below (related to an Apache project) and thought I would pass it along: Apache HAMA: An Introduction to Bulk Synchronization Parallel on Hadoop Apache HAMA: An Introduction toBulk Synchronization Parallel on Hadoop View more documents from Edward J. Yoon. Welcome to Hama project Hama (means a hippopotamus in Korean) is a distributed scientific ...
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12.24.09Year-End Thoughts On Social Media, Social Networking Social AnalyticsPrevious posts: Year-End Thoughts On Enterprise 2.0 & Social Software (Part 3) Year-End Thoughts On Enterprise 2.0 & Social Software (Part 2) Year-End Thoughts On Enterprise 2.0 & Social Software While a lot of my research agenda and client interactions focused on collaboration and Enterprise 2.0 / social software during 2009, the most sizeable amount of time and energy for me this year was spent on social media, social networking, and social analytics (externally as well as internally). Social Media Earlier this year, there was a noticeable spike in my inquiry load concerning social media. What I found interesting was that ...
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12.23.09Year-End Thoughts On Enterprise 2.0 Social Software (Part 2)In my last post, Year-End Thoughts On Enterprise 2.0 & Social Software, I wanted to provide a background context on some of the areas where Enterprise 2.0 remains ambiguous: Enterprise 2.0 is not a market. Enterprise 2.0 is perhaps best thought of as a collection of principals, organizational practices, and adoption methods that enables emergent participation and contributions models. Enterprise 2.0 is not a project. By this, I mean that organizations should not undertake Enterprise 2.0 initiatives for the sake of "doing Enterprise 2.0. This was the fundamental mistake that doomed many KM projects in the late nineties. There needs to be ...
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11.11.09Cisco Collaboration Summit: The Right Foundation For CollaborationJoe Burton, CTO, Session Notes: Why is an architectural approach towards collaboration important? That's a question Cisco wants to answer - point tools are not enough. Example1: collaboration-enabled CRM process. Note: Reminiscent of "Collaborative CRM" concept defined by Meta Group years ago which has morphed into "Social CRM". Example2: virtualizing key business functions - scaling expertise, customer intimacy via video (Telepresence) just-in-time customer representative or expert. Example3: Streamlining complex human processes - follow-me, single number reach... reduce cycle time, coordination, process latency Reference Architecture for collaboration (logical diagram illustation) Devices (desktop, mobile, in-room) Collaborative Applications (conferencing, enterprise social software, customer care, messaging, ...
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10.10.09OpenSocial In The EnterpriseDuring the Enterprise 2.0 event in Boston last year, I moderated a discussion between IBM and Oracle on the topic of portals and its relation to Enterprise 2.0. Somewhere during the discussion, I wondered aloud how OpenSocial should be compared/contrasted and put into perspective within the enterprise as the most viable widget/gadget effort around. I'm happy to see a session on the topic for the San Francisco event on Wednesday morning hosted by Chris Schalk, Developer Advocate at Google. Panelists include: Adina Levin, Vice President of Products & Co-founder, Socialtext, Benjamin Mestrallet, CEO, Exo Platform, David Johnson, Web 2.0 Senior ...
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09.16.09One Way To Look At Social ComputingLately, over the past couple of months, I have been doing a high number of customer briefings and traveling a lot. The workload increase has been noticeable for those following me either via this blog or through Twitter. One of the slides that has been well-received is one that I use to peel away the different terms associated with social computing. This is not the only way to look at the topic - and not necessarily the right way for all possible situations when you are trying to advise someone on a particular strategy or question. However, Figure 1 below ...
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