The Second Brain site organizes the chaos people feel from utilizing content across a wide variety of services, like YouTube, del.icio.us, Flickr and others. Ultimately Second Brain is trying to fill the niche between people's need to organize and use data, and the need for services to attract and retain users. Second Brain looks at Web 2.0 and beyond as a network of mostly small independent appli
Big Blue is big on social networking. Some 26,000 IBM workers have registered blogs on the company's internal computer network where they opine on technology and their work. Employees starting a new project routinely create information-storing Web sites called wikis for sharing memos as they build their teams.
In the light of much of the discussion between Andrew Boyd, Stephen Collins and myself, on all things from knowledge management to Government 2.0, this taxonomy is an important consideration for knowing how to implement social computing strategies within an organization - government or otherwise. Li's blog on Forrester's new Social Technographics report supports this notion. At the heart of her post is the warning that, like knowledge management, social computing is not really about technology:
Before answering the questions posed in the introduction it helps to understand the differences between generic and specialized social networks. For the purpose of this post, we define a generic network as one that exists primarily to keep in touch and a specialized network is one where people are brought together based on the specific common interest. According to this definition Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and even LinkedIn are considered generic social networks. del.icio.us, Flickr, LibraryThing and Flixster, on the other hand, represent specialized networks.
Online reference managers are extraordinary productivity tools, but it would be a mistake to take this as their primary interest for the academic community. As it is often the case for social software services, online reference managers are becoming powerful and costless solutions to collect large sets of metadata, in this case collaborative metadata on scientific literature.
A Pew report on the popularity and usage of tagging.
Social exchange theory grew out of the intersection of economics, psychology and sociology. According to Hormans (1958), the initiator of the theory, it was developed to understand the social behavior of humans in economic undertakings. The fundamental difference between economic exchange and social exchange theory is in the way actors are viewed. Exchange theory “views actors (person or firm)...
The exchange paradigm entertains high aspirations concerning its place within social psychology and generally sociology and psychology. This is epitomized, for example, by its fundamental premise that all social life can be treated as an exchange of rewards or resources between actors. Such nature of social life is often the rationale for the claim that the social exchange paradigm features equivalent generality and relevance for sociological theory. This claim is reexamined in this paper, by putting emphasis on rational choice and behaviorist versions of social exchange theory.
Learning is a social network relation: it is a transaction, an exchange between people as one person teaches and another learns; it is a shared experience as colleagues explore a new area together, define terms and create common ground; and it is a common experience as students attend classes and lectures together gaining a similar view of subject areas. A social network approach provides...
HID Required: Examines the impact of computer-supported social networks in virtual communities, cooperative and telework. Growth of computer networking; Variety of text-based interaction system; Impact of group communication mediated by computer systems; Provisions of specialized and multiplex relationships as social resources; Description of virtual community work groups.
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The Second Brain site organizes the chaos people feel from utilizing content across a wide variety of services, like YouTube, del.icio.us, Flickr and others. Ultimately Second Brain is trying to fill the niche between people's need to organize and use data, and the need for services to attract and retain users. Second Brain looks at Web 2.0 and beyond as a network of mostly small independent appli
Online reference managers are extraordinary productivity tools, but it would be a mistake to take this as their primary interest for the academic community. As it is often the case for social software services, online reference managers are becoming powerful and costless solutions to collect large sets of metadata, in this case collaborative metadata on scientific literature.
A Pew report on the popularity and usage of tagging.
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