1 Buzzwords 2006 Buzzwords 2006 Web2.0, Social Software, Folksonomy Jim Phelps, Sr. I.T. Architect University of Wisconsin - Madison Common Solutions Group May 2006

I will: Define Web2.0, Social Software & Folksonomy Lead a prayer Do a demo Show amazing growth Bring it back to the Enterprise Specifically: IBM, Microsoft Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD)

Define Web2.0 World Wide Web *.com Business getting info to consumer s HTML editors Domain Name Web Hosts ISP

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Define Social Software Web 2.0 Social Softwar e

Social Clay Shirky, “Social Software is the stuff that gets spammed.” “...enables people to rendezvous, connect or collaborate... and to form online communities.” Define Social Software

Social Softwar e - Put stuff up to share - Starting with friends and family - Leads to discovery of others - Who form a community - Driven by tag-based searches Define Social Software

Define Folksonomy Folksonomy is a neologism for a practice of collaborative categorization using freely chosen keywords. More colloquially, this refers to a group of people cooperating spontaneously to organize information into categories. In contrast to formal classification methods, this phenomenon typically only arises in non-hierarchical communities, such as public websites, as opposed to multi-level teams. Since the organizers of the information are usually its primary users, folksonomy produces results that reflect more accurately the population's conceptual model of the information.neologismkeywords

Folksonomy is a neologism for a practice of collaborative categorization using freely chosen keywords. More colloquially, this refers to a group of people cooperating spontaneously to organize information into categories. In contrast to formal classification methods, this phenomenon typically only arises in non-hierarchical communities, such as public websites, as opposed to multi-level teams. Since the organizers of the information are usually its primary users, folksonomy produces results that reflect more accurately the population's conceptual model of the information.neologismkeywords Define Folksonomy I’ll just show you...

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In Review Web2.0 - easy publishing and remixing Social Software - finding people and communities Social Software - finding people and communities Folksonomy - people tagging objects RSS - really simple syndication Tags and simple APIs for integration Cool stuff - social discovery, tag clouds

It’s a growth industry 40 Million Videos watched daily 38.5 Million Sites 2.4 Billion links Founded February 2005Founded 2002

Feb 4, ,000 users 3.5 Million photos June 15, ,000 users 19.5 Million photos Jan Million users 142 Million photos It’s a growth industry

Cool for geeks. What about reality?

And the Enterprise?

IBM - Dogear “Dogear exploits the enterprise by allowing people to bookmark pages within their Intranet. In addition it uses enterprise directories to authenticate the user's identity. This allows people to find experts on specific topics within the company.”

IBM - Dogear “Dogear exploits the enterprise by allowing people to bookmark pages within their Intranet. In addition it uses enterprise directories to authenticate the user's identity. This allows people to find experts on specific topics within the company.” Web 2.0Social Software

So the big players see opportunities in: Web 2.0 Social Software Folksonomies

FUD = Fear Uncertainty Doubt

Fear Uncertainty & Doubt

Forrester Research: Social Computing " Individuals increasingly take cues from one another rather than from institutional sources like corporations, media outlets, religions, and political bodies. To thrive in an era of Social Computing, companies must abandon top-down management and communication tactics, weave communities into their products and services, use employees and partners as marketers, and become part of a living fabric of brand loyalists."

FUD: Users will Control Message *.com

In Our Enterprise... Files/FoldersStorage Shared FoldersSmall Group Collaboration Enterprise Reporting Taxonomy/Ontology Formal Information Archives

Files/FoldersStorage Shared FoldersSmall Group Collaboration Enterprise Reporting Taxonomy/Ontology Formal Information Archives Blogs Wikis etc Tags Dogear Technorati Social Sharing Discovery In Our Enterprise...

I did: Define Web2.0, Social Software & Folksonomy Lead a prayer Do a demo Show amazing growth Bring it back to the Enterprise Specifically: IBM, Microsoft Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD)

Buzzword complete statement Web2.0’s easy publishing and social software will drive collaboration and community building within the enterprise and across virtual and real organizations. Folksonomies will improve finding and classifying of content within the enterprise and across organizations.

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