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Technorati and Tags

admin — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 01:22:00 +0000

David Weinberger (and others) are posting about Technorati’s new service, which will help facilitate the bottom-up surfacing, or “emergence” of blog posts that may be attractive to someone looking for interesting and useful blog posts.

I and a couple of colleagues have been working on developing Qumana, which is an easy-to-use and versatile blog-post assembly and authoring tool. One of it’s core features is the ability to easily tag blog pots with both structured metadata (controlled vocabularies) and user-defined metadata (subjective tags).

The ultimate capability we want to create would result in Qumana becoming what I have termed a “relationship engine for keeping people posted”. Using Qumana to build and then tag, and then publish richly-tagged blog posts will facilitate connecting people through connecting ideas, and we believe it will be highly useful in purpose-driven social networks focused on an area of professional or personal interest - we are calling them Wired Tribes.

Drag n’ drop, tag, post and then connect .. with others who are interested in similar issues.

It will be very inteersting to see what develops of all this … less hierarchical, less top-down driven expertise, and more surfacing of expertise and knowledge from the Long Tail, I think. And very wirearchical, in my opinion. But I would think that, no ?

Noticed on the Board at a Vancouver Coffee Shop

admin — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:10:00 +0000

“Dancing is the vertical expression of a horizontal desire.”

- George Bernard Shaw

PS - from memory … I’ll go back and check the attribution later today.

I knew there was a reason I liked dancing so much

Principle # 3 Managing in the Wired Workplace

admin — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 07:56:00 +0000

Principle # 3

People interconnected by the Internet and software have ways of speaking to each other – and so they do that – all day long

People communicate. That’s what people do.

They share jokes, they send around interesting e-mails and web sites, they help each other get things done.

The nature of work in the Information Age has changed – dramatically. And it’s likely that the nature of work will keep changing.

If you want to see what work might look like – watch developments in the usability and usefulness of blogs and wikis. Watch younger people as they bring the gaming mentality into the workplace and watch how they communicate using cell phones, e-mail, and IM and the (eventual) derivatives of podcasting.

Watch, too, for developments in telepresence.

Employees are people, too. They communicate just like all the other real people, in Social Networks. They’re the ones communicating with your customers and shareholders.

It’s essential for an organization’s success, and the personal success of each and every one of those employees, that they feel proud of what they communicate. They want to be engaged in positive ways in making a meaningful contribution – to the customers, to themselves and to their fellow employees.