Social networking applications listed by Dave Pollard in a ‘taskonomy’
26th July 2007
| People-Connector Tools | Examples | Useful for Identifying & Finding This Kind of People | What You Can Do Now |
| People-Finders | LinkedIn, Ryze, Orkut, Facebook1 | People meeting selected search criteria or having a specified affinity with you | Set up a just-in-time canvassing system2 |
| Social Network Mappers | InFlow | People connected with others in an organization | Read The Hidden Power of Social Networks3 |
| Proximity Locaters | DodgeBall | People you want to meet who are physically in your proximity | Use them to enable serendipitous meetings within your company4 |
| Affinity Detectors | NTag (not free) | People with whom you have shared interests who are physically in your proximity | Use them at conferences where most attendees don’t know each other5 |
| Social Publishing & Info-Sharing Tools | Examples | Useful for Publishing & Finding This Kind of Information | What You Can Do Now |
| Journals | Blogs, Podcasts | Context-rich stories, reviews, and personal articles | Pilot blogs among those in the company already maintaining some sort of ‘journal’6 |
| Social Bookmarkers | Del.icio.us | Links to others’ stories, reviews and articles (for those who don’t have the time or interest to write their own blog) | Use del.icio.us to get standing notification of new articles on subjects of interest to your organization |
| Photo Journals | Flickr | Personal photos and visualizations | - |
| Memediggers | Digg, Reddit | Links to stories on ‘hot’ topics | - |
| Product Evaluators | Wize, ThisNext, Insider Pages | Consumers’ evaluations of commercial products and services | Check out what potential customers are saying about the competition |
| Personal Diaries/ Music/ Video Sharers | MySpace | Information about and samples of people’s favourite stuff | Put samples of your organization’s possible new products on MySpace to test-market them |
| Collaboration and Communication Tools | Examples | Useful for This Kind of Collaboration and Communication | What You Can Do Now |
| Wikis | JotSpot | Simple, quick collaboration on document drafting and idea generation | Use wikis for small-group, ad hoc collaboration in your organization |
| Forums | Yahoo Groups | Threaded, subscribable conversations among communities of practice and communities of interest | Use forums for communication among ad hoc communities whose members are both inside and outside your organization |
| Commercial Collaboration Tools | BaseCamp (not free) |
Project management including document sharing, discussions, scheduling, resource allocation, notifications | - |
| Mindmaps | Freemind | Real-time consensus-building in meetings and conferences; Visual representation of complicated information | Use mindmaps projected on a screen during meetings and conferences for instant documentation and resolution of misunderstandings |
| VoIP | Skype | Simple audio and video conferencing | Use Skype to enable free long-distance conferences when face-to-face is too expensive or impractical |
| Virtual Presence | Vyew | Real-time videoconferencing with screen-sharing, instant messaging, document sharing, whiteboarding, and attendance tracking | Use Vyew to enable small-group videoconferencing, virtual meetings, and training when face-to-face is too expensive or impractical |
| Peer Production | - | Producer-customer co-development of products and solutions (gift economy) | Read Umair Haque’s paper and decide whether this technique has a place in your organization |
| ‘Unconferencing’ | Open Space | Collaboratively addressing and resolving complex issues | Read Chris Corrigan’s Open Space site and decide whether this technique has a place in your organization |
| Combinations of SNAs and Hardware | Mashups7 |
September 26th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
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