Show Notes
What’s Cool
Andy – Twestival
Michael R – Durham Tweet Up WIth Elsua and more!
Michael M – Snow in Chapel Hill – Big Red Sled!
Obligatory 3D Internet
Fractal tree generator — (mattsimpson)
Sony Electronics virtual trade show — (epredator)
Lotus Sametime 3D without the glasses — (epredator)
Social Networking
It’s ALIVE!!! Lotus Live — (epredator)
Zooming editor for stunning presentations — (jtonline)
Tweetgrid — (adreich)
Tweetdeck Adding columns of searches
Cool tech
MS Surface at Sheraton — (sweettt)
TechFluff.tv — (jtonline)
Doll out of living cells. Great balls of collagen. — (epredator)
BugLabs — If you mashup a bug, does it squish? — (graham_alton)
Final thoughts
Michael M — The Inaugural Moment (Fallout 3 version of Inauguration) — (epredator)
Michael R — Don’t sign up for things that consume your entire life? Shows / books, more.
Andy — Unveiled the mashup for twtrctr — Shameless Plug
Bonus links
Artificial life in Second Life (Mar 2007)
Engage expo
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Andy is correct, there is a Sim in Second Life that has its own ecosystem, it’s called Svarga… or at least there was, I think the owners decided (very recently) it was too costly to keep up and are trying to sell it. This is just something I read in passing in the last few months though, and I can’t even tell you where I read that.
heidi’s last blog post..Searching for Stock Images
Thanks Heidi, I’d never admit it, but andy is frequently right. No wait I just admitted it!!!
Andy is right also about social networking — had some fun conversations this week with people that agreed with his (and my!) defense of social networking and collaboration.
Michael Martine’s last blog post..Dogear-Nation – Episode 86 – Is Collaboration Social Networking?
OK, I can’t let this go un-answered. Before we say right and wrong we need to define terms.
Wikipedia defines social networking as – “A social network is a social structure made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as values, visions, ideas, financial exchange, friendship, kinship, dislike, conflict or trade. The resulting graph-based structures are often very complex.”
While Collaborative software is defined as -”Collaborative software (also referred to as groupware or workgroup support systems) is software designed to help people involved in a common task achieve their goals. Collaborative software is the basis for computer supported cooperative work.
Such software systems as email, calendaring, text chat and wiki belong to this category. It has been suggested that Metcalfe’s law — the more people who use something, the more valuable it becomes — applies to such software.
The more general term social software applies to systems used outside the workplace, for example, online dating services and social networks like Friendster, Orkut and Facebook. The study of computer-supported collaboration includes the study of this software and social phenomena associated with it.”
The key point I made was that the focus of the Collaborative software – LotusLive, we task focused around collaborative acts, while social network had a much broader perspective.
In the corporate world, I tend to view collaboration as the umbrella term about people working together on a common task as you state above. However, I think your examples of collaborative software is rather limited. I view social networking – inside or outside the firewall – as an accelerator for effective collaboration. It social software helps us collaborate, does that make it also collaborative software?
The bigger your network is – social or otherwise – the greater your ability to find expertise, get help, build teams, make deals, … in a business context. How many sales are made based on personal relationships or at “social events” like a golf tournament. Your “social network” can be your deal closer. It can get you out of a ditch (no reference to my golf skills intended here).
We live in a world of globally distributed teams, partnerships inside and outside the corporate firewall, and blurred lines of relationships across clients, partners and competitors. Teams that know each other better, trust each other more, and therefore support each others’ success more. I think your social network is very connected to your business collaboration.
It ain’t just social
Bill, I agree with your basic premise, however, just as we cannot fall into the logic trap that if All A are B, that necessarily all B are A. it is just not the case. I think that corporate collaborative tools (both inside and outside of the firewall) are great things, and many companies would do well to adopt them. it does not make them social neworking tools. Also, while I strongly agree in the value of social networking, not all social networking is relevant in the work environment.
Peace. I agree that not all social networking relates to work. Thank goodness!
Bill.. Peace
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An ecosystems is a systems-thinking way to describe the world around any given actor & field. It’s not something that is deployed or built.
Collaboration is a category to describe 100s of behaviors observed among people (when they are working together toward a common goal). Sometimes those people are members of the same social system. Sometimes they are not. Collaborative behavior, by definition, is social.
Social computing and collaborative software are only the tools and the spaces that support and enable online social and/or behavior.
Matt Simpson’s last blog post..Sweettt.com – Episode 10 – Information Flow – Part 1
Consider it done — Mr. Sweettt