Here are my notes from Darren Barefoot’s talk, a self-described recovering technical writer. He leads with what defines social media? Create your own definition around these concepts: Conversation – comments on large media sites allow ayone to speak to the media person keeping on the pedestal Collaboration – 7 million people collaborating on wikipedia, likely […]
Putting content into context in a wiki – especially in a large environment
An interesting read on the front page of wordpress.com of all places. I enjoy random clicking, and this one came up with a great commentary on the difficulty of using a wiki to get how to information. From Learning about Second Life from Google: Over at SL, the main source of information is on the […]
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations
I’ve listened to about the first 45 minutes of Clay Shirky’s talk on “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations.” http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2008/02/shirky. Well worth the time spent – especially for my current employer’s product set, which enables organizations to manage their data used to communicate with and connect their members with each other through […]