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Social Computing at Work The Consumerisation of Enterprise IT. Dave Coplin Enterprise Strategy Consultant Microsoft Consulting Services. Disclaimer*.
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Social Computing at WorkThe Consumerisation of Enterprise IT Dave Coplin Enterprise Strategy Consultant Microsoft Consulting Services
Disclaimer* • Forward Looking Statements: The following presentation contains certain predictions and forecasts which may possibly/probably, turn out to be wholly inaccurate. • Utility: The forward looking nature of this presentation is unlikely to provide any information which will prove useful for addressing near term challenges in your business or personal life. • Work In Progress: This is an ongoing piece of work; as such the author reserves the right to right to amend, replace or contradict any premises, argument or logical statements contained herein. • Investment Decisions: Under no circumstances should the information be used to make investment or other life changing decisions. The author’s liability shall not exceed the fee received for this presentation. From: Jonathan Murray Worldwide Technology Officer Microsoft
Social Computing Will Make it Happen! And Change Enterprise IT Forever...
You’re Not Special Anymore...
Baby Boomers (b. 1946 to 1964) Veterans (b. 1922 to 1945) Financial Success Company Loyalty “The Millenials Are Coming!” Millennials (b. 1980 to 2000) Generation X (b. 1965 to 1979) Strongly Independent Personalized Work Source:“Get Ready: The Millennials Are Coming!”, Forrester Research, Inc., September 2005
The Third Age Commerce Content Community
The Global Brain Artificial Intelligence Intelligent Agents Enterprise Minds Personal Assistants Semantic Webs Web 3.0 Web 4.0 Semantic Web Connects Knowledge The Metaweb Connects Intelligence Smart Marketplaces Group Minds The “Relationship” Web Ontologies Lifelogs Knowledge Management Decentralised Communities Knowledge Bases Semantic Weblogs Taxonomies Degree of Information Connectivity Enterprise Portals Marketplaces Auctions Wikis Search Engines Community Portals RSS Content Portals Weblogs Web Sites Web 1.0 Web 2.0 Groupware The Web Connects Information Social Software Connects People PIMs Social Networks eMail Databases “Push” USENET Conferencing Pub-Sub File Servers P2P File-sharing IM Degree of Social Connectivity Permission to re-use with attribution to: Nova Spivackwww.mindingtheplanet.net
User Experience SEARCH 6 Months • EDITORIAL • News • Top podcasts • Technical updates • Community highlights • NAVIGATION • Channels • Filters 7000 Users 60,000 Downloads • PODCAST SELECTION • Filters • Search results
There’s More to Come Much, Much More...
SNARF – Email AssistantSocial Network and Relationship Finder • Side bar for peripheral awareness • Multiple Panes • List of people with associated messages • Sorted by relationship • Yellow bars, for visual indication of scale • Double-click on person to see their messages Danyel Fisher, AJ Brush, Andy Jacobs, Marc Smith, Adam Perer, Bernie Hogan http://www.research.microsoft.com/community/snarf
Netscan: A tool for studying threaded conversation repositories Newsgroups Newsgroups The “Message” Authors Authors Threads Threads
The Ties that Blind? Reply-To Network Network at distance 2 for the most prolific author of the microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general newsgroup
Mapping Newsgroup Social Ties Microsoft.public.windowsxp.server.general Two “answer people” with an emerging 3rd.
Distinguishing attributes: • Answer person • Outward ties to local isolates • Relative absence of triangles • Few intense ties • Reply Magnet • Ties from local isolates often inward only • Sparse, few triangles • Few intense ties
Goal: Make SNA easier • Existing Social Network Tools are challenging for many novice users • Tools like Excel are widely used • Leveraging a spreadsheet as a host for SNA lowers barriers to network data analysis and display
Closing Thoughts • Make technology invisible - Remember, it’s nothing special • Embrace the new mediums but remember the principles you’ve learnt so far • Avoid evolving legislation paralysing progress • Get your heads “in the cloud” • Think function not product Above all, remember this is about the journey, not the destination...
And Finally… Source: xkcd, http://xkcd.com/386/
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