XING - The professional network A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy A speech at ETech, April, 2003 Published July 1, 2003 on the "Networks, Economics, and Culture" mailing list. Subscribe to the mailing list. This is a lightly edited version of the keynote I gave on Social Software at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference in Santa Clara on April 24, 2003 Good morning, everybody. In particular, I want to talk about what I now think is one of the core challenges for designing large-scale social software. Prior to the Internet, we had lots of patterns that supported point-to-point two-way. Prior to the Internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table. We've had social software for 40 years at most, dated from the Plato BBS system, and we've only had 10 years or so of widespread availability, so we're just finding out what works. So email doesn't necessarily support social patterns, group patterns, although it can. This talk is in three parts. So, Part One.
Ryze business networking Social Media Classroom Job Boards: Best Niche Job Boards Job boards are an excellent resource that you should consider using if you are looking for a job. A job board is a large database of “open” job positions companies have. When you use a job board, you can search by job type, skills, geography, and even by a company name. Let’s define 3 kinds of job boards - Niche Job Boards – per Area of ExpertiseLinkedIn Groups and their niche job boardsJob Search Engines (also called Job Boards) Using niche job boards to find jobs you are interested in, and in your occupation is a wise move. 1. When you talk about job boards most people think of Monster, Careerbuilder, or Craigslist, and some of the other top searched job boards. A Google search is a terrific way to find the best job boards on the internet. IT, InformationTechnologySalesMarketingEngineeringHuman ResourcesHealthcareMedicalAccountingExecutiveLegalFreelanceNursingConstructionDesignFinanceNon ProfitTradesWorking at HomeInsuranceEducationGovernmentEnvironmentalMilitary 2. 3.
TWITTER TOOLBOX: 60+ Twitter Tools Best Software & App Ratings - BestVendor.com - CometBird cartoons drawn on the back of business cards": why we're all blogging less why we're all blogging less ["Dorothy". One of my fave cartoons from the early days. NYNY, 1998.] A common conversation thread I'm hearing a lot among the veteran bloggers, is how we all seem to be blogging a lot less. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. [Bonus Link] B.L .Ochman: "Reports of Blogging's Death Are Greatly Exaggerated." Posted by hugh macleod at August 12, 2007 1:38 PM | TrackBack Hugh, some interesting thoughts and got me thinking! I wonder if another reason is that for many people they found that they did not get the audience and readers they thought they would get and lost the will to keep pumping out thoughts when only a handful of people actually cared what they had to say based on how few people stopped by? Gary Not that I was ever a particularly prolific blogger to start with, but I'm in a dry patch at the moment too. I got busy. VRM? Guilt swiftly exorcised. Very true words, as always! I was thinking of something clever to write but to busy I'm afraid ;) Nice buddy. -Balaji Chennai 1. 3.
Ross Mayfield's Weblog: Power Law of Participation Social software brings groups together to discover and create value. The problem is, users only have so much time for social software. The vast majority of users with not have a high level of engagement with a given group, and most tend to be free riders upon community value. But patterns have emerged where low threshold participation amounts to collective intelligence and high engagement provides a different form of collaborative intelligence. To illustrate this, lets explore the Power Law of Participation: Most of Chris Anderson's Long Tail examples have focused on models of consumption, not production, where intelligence is largely artificial. As we engage with the web, we leave behind breadcrumbs of attention. Digg is the archetype for low threshold participation. The byproduct of use is a Conucopia of the Commons -- the act of using the database adds value to it. In Wikipedia, 500 people, or 0.5% of users, account for 50% of the edits.