Coming to Terms with Sociality - Presentation Transcript
Coming To Terms With Sociality
Thomas Vander Wal
Presented to: designtalks DC
Falls Church,VA, USA :: 29 February 2008
What is Social
Software?
Services...
People...
Desires...
Interests...
Wants...
Needs...
Sharing...
But essentially
it is all about
My friends
My interests
My sharing
and following.
It is being
We select services…
Where our friends are
Where we can interact
Business calls it collaboration
or knowledge sharing
we know it as
communicating.
Sharing and being social
is how we humans got
out of caves
Being social is how we
advance as a society
We have a lot of information
Many layers of information
We need tools for understanding
We share:
Things found
People
Events
Things created
Links
Preference
Status/presence
Media
Cure technology pain
Technology Pain:
Syncing Refinding
Taste
Precision
Ease of use
Portability
Privacy Attention
Social Software:
Tools and Services
Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking:
Links Found things
Have: Identity
Tags
Comments
Ease of use
Solve: Portability
Taste Attention
Tagging &
Other Features
Tagging
Derived Value
Abstracts
Identity
Favorites Long Text Annotation
Titles
Ratings
Work Contributing
The “F” Word
Folksonomy
Folksonomy Definition
❖ Folksonomy is the result of personal free tagging of pages
and objects for one's own retrieval
❖ The tagging is usually done in a social environment (shared
and open to others)
❖ The act of tagging is done by the person consuming the
information
Self & Others
Refind links annotated in your understanding
Others with similar understanding
and interest find info
Connect and collaborate with
people with similar interests
Access your info from any browser
Getting to Real
Relationships
Spheres of Sociality
Mob
Collective
Selective
Personal
Directional Sociality
Not All
Relationships
Are Equal
Unequal Access
Public
Private
Approaching
Real Relationships
Share Share
Listen
Public Private
Friend A X X
Friend B X X X
Friend C X X
Acquaintance A X X
Acquaintance B X
Granular Listening
Reputation Relationships
Conversation
Groups
Sharing
Identity Object
Collaboration
Actions
Presence
Differing Perspectives
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An overview presentation on social web and social c more
An overview presentation on social web and social computing that introduces some of the conceptual model I have been using to do analysis and strategy to vastly improve value for the people using the services and tools as well as the system owners. less
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