Thomas Vander Wal has written about the problems with the word social (as in social media, social tools). To quote: I have run into the connotation of social as a term that has associative connotations to the hippy movement (the slide image Andrew uses with his presentations), socialist (non-capatalist or ...
Articles tagged: social software
Collaboration and social media terminology?
Terminology is always muddy in emerging fields, particularly where product innovation outstrips theoretical thinking. This is very much the case in the spaces of "collaboration" and "social media". While this is hard to avoid, it's extremely problematic. Very different approaches and tools are lumped together, people discover they aren't talking about ...
Time for a reality check
Richard Dennison writes about the need for a reality check on social media tools. To quote: I’m reading an increasing amount of stuff taking swipes at social media along the lines of … it was all just hype … it’s not delivering what it promised etc. I guess it was ...
Enterprise social Software technology
Tony Byrne has written about enterprise social software, from an analyst perspective. To quote: While agreement around the core concepts of "social software" has remained elusive, the underlying phenomenon is quite real. To date, industry analysts have quite properly focused on the cultural and organizational aspects of social software technologies ...
