No place for Social Software in the Enterprise?

• Thomas Davenport wonders where 'working' is in Social Networking.
• John M. Willis "isn't surprised" why Social Software is not in Gartner's Magic Quadrant
• Jeff Brainard sees big money in Enterprise 2.0 up to 2011.

Could be a classic case of wisdom of crowds?

Why Social Software? Why Not?

Here's more WH's from Jami L. Haskell and Cornelius Puschmann.

Old Media is Dying?

Perhaps it just needs a more participatory shot in the arm.

Read more of George Dearing's thoughts on this.

How about walking the talk? First stop could be Community Walk. That takes care of Space; now there must be a way to embed an element of Time. I am thinking of Dandelife.

For what this is worth

Just thought I'd preserve this for future reference of historical trivia buffs. (Only in the Philippines...)

An alternative source of the image is here. With apologies to Inquirer.net.

How do you measure the value of Social Media?

FaberNovel gives some compelling insights (View slide 28, in particular) in an analysis of the Facebook phenomenon.

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How much can you handle?

aka "A Vision of Students Today" by Michael Wesch.

Guess what purpose the following rows serve?

Not working? Go here.

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Peer-Controlled or Moderated Online Environment ?

Ke Zhang and Kyle L. Peck's paper (2003) could give some interesting insights for teachers considering the use of social learning environments.

"Three conclusions were reached:

1. Groups assigned to moderated forums displayed significantly higher reasoning scores than those in the peer-controlled condition, but the moderation did not affect correctness of solutions.
2. Students in the moderated forums reported being more likely to choose to use an optional online forum for future collaborations.
3. Students who reported having no difficulty during collaboration reported being more likely to choose to use an optional online forum in the future."

Should everyone be blogging?

Scott Allen puts it this way:

"A blog may become as important, if not more important, than your resume. The resume may get you onto the long list, but the blog is definitely a tool to get onto the short list. If you're trying to position yourself as an expert, then you should be blogging about your topic and building relationships with other people in your industry who are thinking about and talking about the same topic. And when I say you want to position yourself as an expert, I'm not talking about being a professional info-guru. If your business value is centered around your expertise on a particular topic, then you should be writing about it."

More from an interview with Monster.com's Allan Hoffman here.

And so IMF embraces blogging too

"The IMF's Economic Counselor, Simon Johnson, launched the blog in conjunction with the fall meetings of the IMF and its sister organization, the World Bank, in Washington from Saturday through Monday."

[via Inquirer.net]

IBM adopts web ‘mash-up’ technology in new software

Thus reports Erwin Oliva saying that:

"[Big Blue] has released a new version of Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino that mixes and matches what customers want with existing applications."

More here.

Of course the Friendster Generation would know how to use those tools. Question is "Would they do that purposively? "

Now as to the "digitally aware" set who still comprises a huge portion of the existing workforce (schools included), the question is "Are they ready for the Friendster Generation?"

Seems like school reform is getting more complicated.

Facebook is in decline?

And I've been a member for barely 2 months. To think I consider myself an early adopter. Dog years on the Internet could perhaps partly explain it.

Read Ian Betteridge's blog entry to get some deeper insights.

Lawrence Lessig on Corruption - alpha version




Very timeless (timely?) I like that part with a quote from Thomas Jefferson (1784):

"[We] should look forward to a time, and that's not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people; when they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price. "

Not for the faint of heart. If the shoe fits.

Read more of Mr. Lessig's blog entry here.

[via Cory Doctorow]

Enterprise 2.0 isn't a buzzword?

Perhaps two years from now, especially when people start raving about Enterprise 3.0.

Meanwhile, let's soak up what Jennifer Okimoto's presentation has to say, in Luis Suarez' slideshare:



[via Rich Hoeg]

Bloggers’ Kapihan 2.0: Blog Ed 101

About time we Pinoys co-create in the name of Education.

Read more here.

[via Erwin Oliva]

"Microsoft's Steve Ballmer Calls Rivals 'Pretenders'"

Thus reports J. Nicholas Hoover of Information Week.

One interesting point:

"Ballmer said Microsoft realizes computing is in the midst of a shift from desktop-centric to a more balanced world that interweaves the best of the Web, the PC, enterprise functionality like manageability, and the explosion of different devices, but that companies looking to develop platforms on a larger scale have far to go."

More here.



One intriguing question: What if the 'pretenders' team up with worldwide users in real time ?

Can we afford not to be ready?



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"Soft " Peer Reviewed Journal



For authors looking to publish in journals but can't get past the usual hard peer review, this might just cut it.

Too much "irrelevant" adverts in Old Media?

(Read: Radio)

Try iHeard.com



Thanks AJ Batac.

Just thought I'd share this

Education for All - Philippines

The "deadline" is 2015. Click here to sign the petition.

Microsoft looks to Social Networking for Zune

PC World reports that Microsoft is throwing in social network behind it's new range of Zune. Apart from the Social Software part, the move seems to be a play not just against iPod but also to steal market share from Sandisk and Creative. Worth watching. More here.

Social network in 10 years

Some key points from AlwaysOn Stanford Summit on August 16, 2007

NOT technology BUT self-expression, ubiquity, universal, more personal, more vertical (niche, passionate)

In 10 years, this could be a regular question: "Who owns your friends/network?"

OpenID? or Differentiated identity?

Still about tagetted (via tagging) advertising and transaction models.

Wixi




A couple of ideas for a tagline:

Transforming your desktop into a webware.

Taking Learning Objects to the embeddable level.