You Don't Know Me, but... Social Capital & Social Software
If you are familiar with social software - this report probably won't present any new tools. If you aren't familiar - this report is an excellent place to start. The basic premise - as a society, we are getting more technical...and software is getting more social. Increased use of social software will allow organizations to (apparently) move tacit knowledge to codified knowledge (why is it always about making that transition? Why can't tacit stay tacit? Build the pipes to connect...not the tools to convert - that makes more sense to me).
George, just to second your point here - I came across this piece a few months back (actually thought it was you who had posted it) and have been reading it a page at a time as I get a chance.
I wasn't expecting much - I've read enough government sponsored survey pieces to have fairly low expectations - and have been pleasently surprised. Even as someone who has decent experience with this kind of software I was able to find a lot of real nuggets. The entire paper is worth it for a reference it contains to a quote by James Madison - "liberty is to faction what air is to fire." Cheers, Scott
Posted by: Scott Leslie at July 28, 2003 04:33 PM