by Anthony J. Bradley | January 12, 2009 | Comments Off
The social software blogoshpere is teeming with the discussion over facebook banning pictures of breatfeeding mothers. InfoWorld has an amusing article on it. This is another great example of hubris. Just like the Digg user revolt of 2007, eBay with the Tit for Tat controversy, and facebook with their initial launch of Beacon, this is [...]
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Category: social applications Tags: governance, social applications
by Anthony J. Bradley | January 7, 2009 | 2 Comments
Yesterday I spoke to yet another large federal governmental organization about building a strategy for social software in anticipation of the new presidential administration. This is now an unmistakable trend. Over the past number of months several of the more leading edge federal departments have called me with the recognition that President Elect Obama’s enormous [...]
Category: social applications Tags: government, social applications
by Anthony J. Bradley | January 5, 2009 | 1 Comment
This very interesting post by Aaron Swartz examines who actually adds the value to Wikipedia. It is very worth the read, as are the comments. He takes issue with the assertion by Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia founder) that it is a small set of core (less than two thousand) knowledge experts that add the most value [...]
Category: social applications Web 2.0 Tags: social software, wiki
by Anthony J. Bradley | January 5, 2009 | Comments Off
A post in my colleague Tom Austin’s blog caught my attention. It is a quick take on Andrew MacAfee’s E2.0 Bullseye Model of strong and weak ties. In my experience there are a few big flaws in his bullseye model. First, it is an oversimplification (which admittedly fits well in a blog post and easy [...]
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Category: social applications Tags: social applications, strategy
by Anthony J. Bradley | December 31, 2008 | 3 Comments
Malcolm Gladwell is one of my favorite business book authors. He has a fantastic way of making me look at things differently or gain deeper insight into what I naturally took for granted. The beauty in the latter is that I often learn things that I can apply in many situations. In some instances when [...]
Category: social applications Tags: social applications
by Anthony J. Bradley | December 28, 2008 | Comments Off
A client just asked about the utility of the “A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution” multi-author project. Although I have not read the recent book, I have gone through the Web site. I would say that the movement has yet to hit many organizations since this is the first client interest I’ve seen. The cause [...]
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Category: social applications Tags: architecture
by Anthony J. Bradley | December 28, 2008 | 2 Comments
I watched CNN’s Planet in Peril show yesterday and it left me in a state of depressed anger at how people (and companies) are destroying parts of the earth and some of its most magnificent inhabitants (sharks, gorillas, and elephants). Here is where the potential power of social software solutions becomes apparent. I know I’ve [...]
Category: social applications Tags: principles, social applications
by Anthony J. Bradley | December 2, 2008 | 3 Comments
I just had a good vendor briefing with Paul Pluschkell the CEO of Spigit. Here are some interesting points spurred by the briefing. 1. Spigit is a great example of the evolution of the social software market from best of breed tools (best wiki, best blog, etc.) to social software suites (Jive Software, Awareness, Drupal, [...]
Category: About Me social applications Web 2.0 Tags: idea engines, social software
by Anthony J. Bradley | November 25, 2008 | Comments Off
Recent studies such as Digital Youth Research and “New-Generation Workers Want Technology Their Way, Accenture Survey Finds” strive to understand today’s youth and how they use technology, especially for collaboration. Call them digital natives, millennials, the MySpace Generation, generation IM or make up your own term because everyone is focused on what the kids are [...]
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Category: social applications Tags: collaborative behaviors, social applications
by Anthony J. Bradley | November 19, 2008 | 5 Comments
Monday’s Dilbert was awesome. It is on my hard copy Dilbert calendar. It goes something like this: Pointy Haired Boss to Alice. “Alice, this year you did the work of four people and made over $10 million for the company.” “But according to our web monitoring software, you used company resources to look at a [...]
Category: social applications Tags: governance and policy, social software
