This is an experiment in blog-base narrow casting.

If you have been emailed this blog entry please read it and leave a comment, if you are so moved. Social Software is a new topic that has gotten very hot this June and this is a chance to learn and join the conversation.

The rise of social software tools, services and ideas provides an historic opportunity to liberate people from the stultifying grasp of enterprise systems. Cheaper, better and faster are all possible, and that is an immense business opportunity for companies in this space. Blogging, wikis, social tagging, aggregation and syndication, IM, shared presence and lightweight group forming tools are increasingly being used within the enterprise, whether officially sanctioned or not, because they get the job done. But it is not just about different tools, it is also about a new relationship with information and people. It is about managing feeds and information inputs, not individual content items as in the old CMS model. It is about recognising and supporting the different interaction modes (synchronous, asynchronous) and models (read, edit, publish, comment, bookmark, etc.) that are required for different work contexts. It is about the importance of social markup of existing data and the creation of new layers of personal and group metadata.

 

 

 

References:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/

http://www.headshift.com/archives/002895.cfm

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2006/tc20060605_641388.htm

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/ceo_tipsheet/2006_1.htm

http://www.peterme.com/archives/000673.html