Social+Technologies

=What are the technologies enabling connected intelligence?= = =

Facilitator's Note: Starting with a list of possible tools. Will create sub pages as volume grows. Please add interesting links to add depth of understanding under each.

A. Tools
http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/

1a. Microblogs - twitter, jaiku, pownce
Small messages sent to public and/or one's network - replacing blogging

2. Collaborative Enterprise Spaces
[|http://www.sharepoint.com] [|http://www.basecamp.com]

5. MMOGs
[|http://www.secondlife.com]

7. Social Networking Platforms
Ross Dawson post: http://www.rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2007/04/the_state_of_so.html

[|Facebook as platform] confirms the ability of facebook to reach beyond their own programmers and users...and create a space of innovation and collaboration with other providers: "Following the crack cocaine model, i.e. give it away for free then charge once users are addicted, businesses that achieve profitable growth through Facebook would have no choice but to accept a revenue share agreement."

Though the current buzz about Zoho (e.g. http://www.zoliblog.com/2007/07/02/zoho-office-on-facebook/) launching a platform on Facebook suggests that Facebook may yet evolve into a platform with a much more business focused agenda. It also makes the boundaries between work and friends/family interactions on Facebook that bit more explicitly permeable. //(Michael Clarke 16/07/07)//

[|Myspace - the next Prodigy?] "By providing a clear roadmap – and business opportunity – for the widget makers, Facebook has just increased its virtual R&D budget by over $250 million dollars. By welcoming third-party innovation, Facebook will reap the benefit of hundreds of millions of dollars of venture investment – and the Facebook user will have a much richer experience."

8. Virtual environments
Bronwyn Stuckey contributions during guest visit to 21stCenturyOrganization blog: http://c21org.typepad.com/21st_century_organization/bronwyn_stuckey/index.html

10. WIKI
[Michael Clarke] Is it possible to also see wikis as collaborative enterprise spaces in their own right? In fact, a lot of the items on the list would seem to fit as sub-categories of each other, unless one takes Collaborative Enterprise Spaces as overall 'containers' of the more functionally specific tools listed.

11. PREDICTION MARKETS
e.g. Google product development. Yahoo Techbuzz

Notes from [|IHT article June 23, 2007]
 * Users** e.g. HP- sales forecasting. Mentions BRAIN Note
 * 1) Researchers at Hewlett-Packard have been setting up internal prediction markets at the company for years, and they've found that they are enormously accurate predictors of everything from next quarter's printer sales to the price of memory chips six months down the road.
 * 2) The problem, said researcher Leslie Fine of HP's Information Dynamics Lab, is that many people get tired of them. They don't want the additional chore of logging in every day to check on their shares. Some of them conclude very quickly that if the market is so good at getting the right answer, they can't expect to beat it. So why try?
 * 3) That's why Hewlett-Packard has created BRAIN, for Behaviorally Robust Aggregation of Information in Networks.

NOTES FROM NANCY WHITE CONVERSATION July 2, 2007
Technologies that support interaction: PRESENCING.. a feature rather than a tool.. Add IM Twitter... Dopplr... and VOIP

What's important is "The space between the tools where things happen."
.Publishing platform supports ideas.

When adds tagging and RSS connects to others and tools.

Twitter .. invitiations.. connecting people.. cross connecting with other platforms.. became more of connected intelligence. Twits showing up in Google. Connected outstide the network Pounce.. the next Twitter

SPACE BETWEEN THE TOOLS-- difference between Web 1.0 Web 2.0 Geometrically expands potential for connecting people between tools.

RSS & tagging.. see patterns

Tools to understand the social interactions and connections social network analysis

B. What are the criteria for effective tools?
//JA Q: What can we learn from Etienne, Nancy & John's Technology Report?//

C. What speeds adoption of tools?
One apparent element speeding the adoption of tools is to use a pull strategy (provide tools as a result of a recongized need by the user) rather than a push strategy (implement tool use before there is a recognized need by the user). In their study conducted at a global provider, Chauhan and Bontis discovered that "more emphasis on pull strategies could help alleviate this problem. If members recognize the need for an application, and the information it will provide, then it is likely that they will be more likely to recognize the information as useful, and learn from it." (//Int. J. Technology Management, Vol. 27, Nos. 6/7, 2004)//

D. How do tools supporting connected intelligence differ from existing learning platforms?
EDITORS NOTE: Themes "emergence", 'place"


 * Need to consider if this list of tools will be useable in the context of a short article, and whether, rather, it becomes a wiki resource that the article refers to in this section's initial paragraph before going onto consider the B C and D sections. JM**