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Here's something I think will interest you; it's
a Cognexus PPT. (I grabbed years ago, perhaps 2002, in a period when I _per force majeur_ needed to do most of my work offline.)
I recommend it for 2 points in particular:
1) it presents the mechanics that were my main concern when I took courses in cog-psych (Dalhousie U; concentration on discourse and the dynamics of personal opinion, i.e. formation; conviction; conversion) and, where I had already developed a dynamic VRML environment (my first hyper-documents date back to 1989, working in an avionics R&D environment), the Cognexus interface shows how conventional "theory-based" design results in an interface that only an uber-geek could love. (see cite from PDF on the importance of design)
2) It embodies the sort of refractory resistance to innovation that comes from institutional investment; refining the _status quo_ is the only line of development. (see cite from PDF on bureaucratic reluctance)
A typical over-view statement is this, from Marc Canter's "
Eruptions, Change and Cleveland":
It seems pretty clear to me that there won’t be one wiki, one social network, one blogging or messaging platform - or one interactive conversation platform that we’ll be using as our ‘collaboration platform’. There are lots of different ways of having ‘workspaces‘ and managing projects.
Metcalfe's Law:
"Robert Metcalfe, inventor of the Ethernet protocol and founder of 3Com, asserted that the value of a communication system grows as pproximately the square of the number of nodes of the system. This assertion has become known as Metcalfe’s Law (Metcalfe, 1996). A single telephone or a single fax machine has no communication value. Two phones have a little value. Two thousand phones have some value. Two hundred million interconnected phones are a system that has incredible communication value."from "The Wiki and the Blog: Toward a Complex Adaptive Intelligence Community"
D. Calvin Andrus; CIA
Principle #2 – Crowdsource Relevance:
"Most social networking sites and communities have so much content, that it can be overwhelming to users. These sites, to varying degrees, make use of crowdsourcing, where users essentially do the work of “classifying” the information. For enterprises, crowdsourcing is a powerful tool that enables the organization to take mountains of information and connect users with only the best and most relevant content. Just a few examples of crowdsourcing in action include when users bookmark information (which is an implicit endorsement), users mark something as helpful, users visit something (implies popularity), users tag or classify 2/5 something (when you upload the content) which provides important meta-data. Crowdsourcing, when used in conjunction with social filtering, becomes a powerful tool for government 2.0 initiatives as the information is classified and aggregated for users, enabling them to get the most valuable information fast, sorting information by what their peers find most valuable."from "A Practical Guide to Government 2.0;
Success Strategies for Applying Proven Social Networking Principles within the Government and Military"
Eric Sauve; tomoye community software
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