Office Jotter - Blog Archive for July (2009)
There were 4 blog postings during July (2009):
Social netting - a survey
For the past few years, I've been working part of the time with Bloor Research - friendly folk, doing good work on analysing the markets for commercial software. One of my colleagues there, Carl Potter, has invited me to join him in looking at the...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 10th July '09
Social and age divisions among users of social networks
Danah Boyd is a researcher in social media at Microsoft Research. She describes herself as an ethnographer, which literally translates as someone who writes about people. Like other members of her trade, Ms Boyd uses statistical methods as a...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 9th July '09
Yelp - a model of community building
Before looking at the social networking market overall (see my previous posting), I want to show you an example of what a successful system can offer. Not all its characteristics translate well into the corporate world but you might be surprised at...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 13th July '09
Social netting - the whats and whys (1)
Part 1 - What is social netting?
Let's start with the usual dichotomising
When thinking about this subject, it helps to distinguish between social networking and social media. Social networking is people conversing over a network. The network can be...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 27th July '09
