Social networking applications listed by Dave Pollard in a 'taskonomy'

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