Gartner’s Anthony Bradley and Dr. Nikos Drakos wrote a great Research Note last year that described the 7 Characteristics of Good Purposes for Social Software.
Summary
Successful communities result not from technologies, but from a properly defined business purpose.
Below is the list of the seven characteristics.
1. Magnetic
2. Aligned
3. Low Risk
4. Properly Scoped
5. Facilitates Evolution
6. Measureable
7. Community Driven
To [...]
Entries from May 2009
Seven Characteristics for Uses of Social Software
May 6th, 2009 · No Comments
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Gartner Classic Research: What we said about eBooks in 2000
May 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment
EBooks are no longer a dream of the future. I peered into the past and dug out some of the research we wrote about eBooks and digital paper back in the year 2000.
In Digital Paper: Is It Paper, a Display or Both?, Jackie Fenn and I wrote about the new medium that readers like the Kindle [...]
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