It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it. ...Tags: Tags: online_facilitation social_software community networks socialsoftware online_community emergence socialnetworks statistic

When people say technology is value neutral, I say people have values and people build software, therefore the software carries the imprint of the designers’ values. There is a lot of understanding of how social tools should work and need to work in enterprise (deeply based on how people interact with others and with interfaces) that must go on top of the technology platform. Tags: collaboration technology For a number of years I have cringed every time one of my clients tells me that have or are planning to deploy Microsoft SharePoint as a collaborative platform. They say

Over the past few months I’ve been working on and off with co-authors Andy Gibson , Amy Sample Ward , and Clive Holtham and Nigel Courtney of Cass Business School , on a book about how we can use social technologies for social benefit. It’s going to be called Social by Social: a practical guide to using new technologies to deliver social impact and it should be published and distributed by NESTA next month. There’s case studies, a sort of routemap for planning and starting projects, lots of how-tos and an A-Z of key terms. Amidst the serious stuff we wanted something

Tags: Enterprise Technolog We did an internal exercise recently that produced a list of the advanced features we think are crucial for a successful enterprise social media platform. The idea is that functionality for user participation across every owned venue should draw upon a central system, enabling a multifaceted approach to CRM, data analysis, reporting—and ultimately leveraging distributed corporate efforts to generate enterprise business intelligence. I’ll share the results of that exercise here, with the caveat that this is undoubtedly a partial list only.

I have saved a few delicious tags about individuals’ technology configurations if you want to browse with they use. This is a very messy lump from a technology standpoint. If you are a technology steward for a community, how does your personal configuration inform the configuration of the community? ...Tags: Recently I wrote a post that received a lot of attention - more than I would have expected: How I use social media . At At the end of the post, I promised to write about WHAT social media I currently use.

March 1, 2007 Collaborative Writing Tools And Technology: A Mini-Guide Collaborative writing tools are those technologies that facilitate the editing and reviewing of a text document by multiple individuals either in real-time or asynchronously. Online, web-based collaborative writing tools offer great flexibility and usefulness in learning groups and educational settings as they provide an easy mean to generate text exercises, research reports and other writing assignments in a full collaborative fashion. Here

The post had a quote that resonated with my experience as a technology steward to various communities. You never know how users will end up using your technology. technology is designed for groups, but experienced by individual These two tenets have significance for technology stewards. I was cruising through my blog reader, hopelessly “behind” in reading (my own construction - I know I can “mark all read!”) 8221;) and came upon a post from Vic Desotelle who pointed to a TED talk on Compassion which somehow lead me to a Garr Reynolds post

Tags: learning technology stewardship the-big-questio This month’s “Big Question” from Tony Karrer jolted me out of my sun-gardening-induced blogging lethargy to reply to this question: In a Learning 2.0 world, where learning and performance solutions take on a wider variety of forms and where churn happens at a much more rapid pace, what new skills and

Tags: Digital Habitats communities of practice community community indicators technology stewardship visual thinkin It is so lovely having a fabulous network – including people I just barely know, but who then hook in with a moment of insight, a remix or ready to augment a forming idea or practice. Gabriele Sani from World Vision in Italy has recently done this with the Community Orientations Spidergram from our Digital Habitats book. 

Tags: collaboration communication technology stewardship photos tool Via Michael Guhlin I’m playing with some tools to find creative commons images for use in things like blogposts, slide shows, etc. I thought I’d give Sprixi and FlickrCC.Bluemountains.net –by Peter Shanks, a new year’s test drive.