Perhaps the greatest competency Socialtext has gained over the past three years is fostering adoption of social software.
The Forrester ‘Social Computing’ Paradox
Charlene Li gives an overview of Forrester’s new “Social Computing” report. Key “tenets of social computing” outlined by Charlene:
Social Media at SAP
Live and un-cut notes at the Enterprise Software Summit.
Social Network Software
My neighbor – a lovely man I’ve known, and have had social contact with for years – is the COO of one of the world’s largest companies.
Spectrum of Corporate Social Media
Dan Mitchell’s What’s Online column in the NY Times highlights the grey area of the Business Blogging Wiki:
Problems of Internet Social Communities
Probably the hottest thing on the Internet right now, that drives ad revenues and many other things floating around the web, are the social communities. These communities, descended from the chat rooms, continue to culminate in Flickr groups and MySpace groups. But with all this warmth, love and friendship, is there a dark side?
Social/GGM Website Growth Soars
The recent buzz around user-generated content isn’t misplaced. With younger users especially, who will become the next generation of consumers and developers, websites that leverage the ability for users to create and control content will grow the most. A recent report from Nielsen/NetRatings provides the numbers that support this notion.
Gnosh Munches On Social Networks
The developers behind the Gnosh meta-search call it “dim-sum for the web,” and it puts all kind of searched morsels on the user’s plate. For once a search engine has come from an institute of higher learning that isn’t called Stanford.’
The Spate of Social Bookmarking Sites
The always-interesting TechCrunch blog has a profile of Shadows, yet another social bookmarking service that’s getting rave reviews.
Editorial Structure and Social Media
John Battelle on the LA Times Wikitorial fiasco: But when I read about this, I instantly recognized a core problem with the approach: it was top down community, rather than bottom up….