February
An article originally posted on Read/WriteWeb
“MicroPlaza provides you with a personalized memetracker based on the links that your friends share on Twitter. While we have seen a fair number of Twitter memetrackers, none of them feature the degree of personalization that MicroPlaza offers. If you follow a very diverse set of people on Twitter, you can also track micro-communities thanks to MicroPlaza’s ‘Tribes’ feature, which lets you organize users into different groups.”
Read the full article at www.readwriteweb.com
Yet another post dedicated to MicroPlaza. With some interesting feedback. The opportunity for us to remind you that we’ve setup a UserVoice feedback forum where you can submit any remark or suggestion. Please, feel free to do it!
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February
An article originally posted on Sitepoint
“In all, MicroPlaza is the best Twitter link sharing site I’ve seen. It solves the problem of only exposing me to links I care about relatively well, and has a number of compelling features that really set it apart from competitors. The site enters invite only beta today, but the public timeline is available to anyone, so you should be able to explore how the service works right away.”
Read the full article at www.sitepoint.com
Discover MicroPlaza, your personal micro-news agency, a service delivered by the (happy) Whatever team!
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February
An article originally posted on Open Forum
“I find that it is important to put social networking in the context of business goals. If I set goals, and determine how / what I want social networking and online social activity to achieve, it becomes easier to know when to stop before I waste time — and to actually stop. Setting goals gives you a clearer sense of purpose to your daily activities…”
Read the full article at blogs.openforum.com
Avoid getting addicted to social networking platforms such as Facebook by systematically asking yourself why you go there. If the answer is ‘to check if people commented on my status update, my last pictures, or the last thing I shared on my Wall’, you probably have an outsize ego. Share, but expect nothing in return…
Note: I had never heard the “social notworking’ expression. Going through this post I found a link to Wordspy, an interesting ‘coined words tracker’ I highly recommend.
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February
An article originally posted on www.gartner.com
“The rise in popularity of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery model has resulted in a number of assumptions about this emerging model, but it has been difficult for many companies to separate truth from fiction, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner analysts have examined the top-five assumptions to provide a bit of a reality check on the state of the SaaS industry.”
Read the full article at www.gartner.com
Very interesting and concise resource for SaaS vendors as well as buyers.
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February
An article originally posted on blogs.zdnet.com
“Overall Knowledge Plaza looks very impressive - an intuitive user interface that isn’t going to alienate non techie users coupled with powerful functionality makes this a tool I can see being a primary nucleus for information wranglers.”
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Oliver Marks introduces his readers to Knowledge Plaza. Thanks for the post Oliver !
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February
An article originally posted on libraryclips.blogsome.com
A more natural strategy is to build a system that has enough value without network effects, at least to early adopters. Then, as the number of users increases, the system becomes even more valuable and is able to attract a wider user base. Joshua Schachter has explained that he built Del.icio.us along these lines - he built an online system where he could keep bookmarks for himself, such that even if no other user joined, it would still be valuable to him.
Read the full article at libraryclips.blogsome.com
Community and more broadly knowledge management is about putting concrete actions into place for fostering communication and participation.
Some solutions rely on the network effect (”à la Facebook”) which as John Tropea explains is often viewed as a positive effect for adoption. However negative factors such as lack of trust and “community congestion” can also occur resulting in lesser participation and lower quality content generation – and I totally agree.
Answering individual’s needs (such as personal productivity) is the best way to make them take up new initiatives and not pushing them into wide open spaces (i.e. keep them involved in smaller communities) sometimes answer these needs better.
How can an ideal balance point for a community be identified in order to maintain its momentum and is there a rule of thumb or way to determine these points a priori rather than a posteriori?
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February
An article originally posted on beyond 140 for @lewmoorman
“Let me give you an example. The Rackspace cloud division, Mosso, has a blog. If you type “mosso blog” on google, you get a link to the mosso blog and bunch of links to posts. I know for a fact that none of the links direct you to our most read post. I also know for a fact that Twitter knows what our most read post is. It was retweeted more than any other. They have the data. Google does not (or they have to look a lot harder to get it). This same information disparity exists across all sorts of potential queries. They have the opinions of millions of people on what really matters.
This data is gold. If Twitter’s model includes some tax to using the system (as some have proposed), I think they are crazy. The more info they get, the more value they create. How will they use it? Well, we will see. But, if I was Google, I would be paying attention.”
Read the full article at lewmoorman.com
Though Twitter will always generate noise, it has indeed a real force: human powered indexing. Following people you trust and the links they share will give you access to new and fresh information you can rely on.
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February
An article originally posted on Martin Kloos's blog
“Knowledge Plaza is in mijn ogen een enterprise ready systeem dat kennisintensieve Communities of Practices kan ondersteunen door enterprise social search, social bookmarking en collaboration te faciliteren en te integreren met bestaande IT huishouding. Juist deze integratie met bestaande IT omgevingen maakt Knowledge Plaza een interessante kandidaat voor bedrijven die het zoeken, vinden, bewaren en verrijken van informatie binnen een organisatie naar een 2.0 niveau willen tillen. Het voelt ook als een product dat zo bij iedere multinational naar binnen geschoven kan worden.”
Read the full article at www.martinkloos.nl
Martin Kloos wrote his thesis “Comm.unities.of.prac.tice 2.0. How blogs, wikis, and social bookmarking offer facilities that support learning in practice in communities of practice” in 2006 while studying at the University of Amsterdam. He now works as a consultant on web strategies, web 2.0 and social media at Deloitte in the Netherlands. Martin recently discovered Knowledge Plaza which inspired him some thoughts he posted on his blog.
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February
An article originally posted on Federated search blog
“Google is indeed stepping up its efforts to mine the deep Web. Google uses the term “surfacing.” What Google is doing more of is submitting queries to HTML forms and adding the results it finds to its index. From Google’s perspective this makes sense. Their model is to build a comprehensive index. Google isn’t interested in building federated search applications. But, they’d love to index all the good content behind search forms and blend those documents in with documents and web pages it finds by crawling.”
Read the full article at federatedsearchblog.com
Some kind of utopia… But anyway, let’s see how it evolves.
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