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Whereas traditional IT supports business processes, social software helps you when the business process breaks. But you don’t necessarily know how often the process breaks, it’s not as predictable as number of invoices processed per month, or new clients signed up per week. You don’t know what benefits could be realised if Joe in Finance talked to Sarah in HR. It might be absolutely nothing. On the other hand it might fundamentally change the company for the better. Social software is a serendipity lubricant that increases the chances of valuable interactions occurring - but it makes no guarantee on their frequency or their value. - John Tropea
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The real value of social software is that it helps develop and maintain closer relationships with more people than you could without it. - John Tropea
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The personal stories are what gives meaning to the problems the report is supposed to identify and inform policy about. - John Tropea
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November 9 at 3:10 pm - Link
Promoting knowledge sharing is a matter of (a) creating the relational conditions that facilitate interpersonal transfers, and (b) creating the structural conditions that facilitate diffusion. - John Tropea
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October 29 at 3:05 pm - Link
...there is a standard framework for the process and how to achieve the intended result, but each case is handled separately and requires human understanding (for both decisions and flow) as part of the process. - John Tropea
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September 21 at 4:01 pm - Link
micro-agenda - John Tropea
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September 1 at 11:57 pm - Link
The ‘one problem, one solution’ approach that has been characteristic to information systems does not apply. Social computing products can address many problems - John Tropea
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September 1 at 11:39 pm - Link
Trick is that social computing addresses knowledge activities (knowledge, not information). 1. Knowledge is immaterial; 2. Measure is only applicable to material elements; 3. Knowledge is not measurable; 4. "What you can't measure, you can't manage"; 5. Knowledge is not manageable; 6. Knowledge is not managed. - John Tropea
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August 14 at 12:24 am - Link
This is what it's all about - check out the comment stream - it's in the interactions - John Tropea
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July 31 at 6:03 am - Link
formerly known as feed digest - John Tropea
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July 19 at 9:34 pm - Link
Tom davenport, Andy McAfee - John Tropea
FriendFeed
Duncan Riley posted a message
“I'm in a cab, and still ffing :-)”
July 14 at 1:10 am - Link
So long as you're not driving, do as you wish! - Louis Gray
I like ffing, is that the friendfeed version of tweeting - John Tropea
I'm surprised you're not on Google Maps, knowing the quality of Melbourne taxi drivers... - Chris Dahl
chris, thankfully it was a short trip. The glowingblue ball though does come in handy - Duncan Riley
Totally, i had to navigate my taxi driver to Docklands on Saturday using it :) - Chris Dahl
You are addicted! I must say, Duncan, FriendFeed is really starting to suck me in. I've barely used Twitter anymore. Just insane, right? - James Mowery
@James - I know exactly what you mean. I think a combination of questionable reliability, increased interaction in FF and discovering that texting Twitter actually costs 20p rather than 3p on my phone tariff has lead to my reduced enthusiasm for Twitter. - Jamie Clark
@Jamie - Yeah, I completely agree with that. I'm interested in seeing how Twitter will handle this. It is only a matter of time before the buzz about FriendFeed gets so huge that people are going to just come here for the sake of being here. - James Mowery
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Allen Stern posted a message
“After using the friendfeed system, i was able to gain 10 lbs and lose 5 hrs of sleep a night. Forget pilates, abdominal crunches and those ab rocker machines, friendfeed is easier and cheaper - order now! free upgrade to iphone shipping”
July 12 at 8:37 pm - Link
I started exercising, but totally hear you. It's a freaking addiction. - Robert Scoble
I just dedicate a certain amount of time and accept I can't read everything. Easy! - Jake (aka Jawee)
Indeed. It's scary how much sleep I've lost since I started surfing Friendfeed - Nathan Rein
I hit my top weight in 2005 and started going to Taekwondo (still didn't lose any weight). I started using Twitter last year and lost 30 pounds. No joke. Also, no correlation :D - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)
Im on the exercise bike now reading friendfeed - John Tropea via fftogo
I'm having pizza. - ha3rvey
I'm waking up early since I joined FF, 6am everyday and open three tabs: Friendfeed, Local newspaper online & Google reader - George The Writer
You have to open tabs in the morning? My computer is on 24/7 with Firefox running and Google reader, FF, and about 20 other tabs open. Makes it easier to wake up in the middle of the night and check what is going on. ;-) - Jeff P. Henderson
FriendFeed
Moopz posted a link
Moopz - Aggregating and Augmenting FriendFeed Conversations
July 9 at 9:01 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Just launched. Read more at http://moopz.com/about - Moopz via Bookmarklet
very interesting app you got there. - Rob Diana
Interesting indeed. Are you scanning the entire public feed or just specific users/rooms? - Yuval Atzmon
One bug I've found: When you type a comment in to the Moopz interface and hit enter, it goes to the next line instead of activating the 'post' button. Confusing. - Phil Glockner
@atzmon, Moopz tracks specific users and only certain services (the users are the ones that the "Moopz" FF user has subscribed to. The list started with a small list of top conversation starters, but Moopz will subscribe to everyone who logs in via Moopz. To be honest, I am not sure how this approach will work out, but I am intrigued to find out. ;) - Moopz
@J. Phil, thanks for the bug report. I will look into that. I should also try to setup the handy expandy-textarea feature of FF where the comment box gets bigger if your comment is longer than one line... - Moopz
Are you planning to add search features? And can you tell a little bit about the person or people behind moopz? - Yuval Atzmon
@atzmon, I just added a search feature. I am the person behind Moopz. I do Internet marketing, SEO, Movable Type plugin development and more... - Mark Carey
Nice site dude! keep rocking. - ani625
Moopz or Mark - I like Moopz. I have tried them all now. I would want a tab that had all the features of Moopz but only looked at my subscriptions. Great work! - Russellreno
BTW I tried search early this morning and it worked well as I recall. The tag cloud is a good addition, but I just proves once again that these sites are 1st tech sites. Instead of the My Friends tab you could do a Food, Music, Celebrity, Politics, Sports tab as an interim step. - Russellreno
Nice one...I always thought that friendfeed had its own inhouse fragmented conversations...can't wait till you make a personalised version, unless FF beat you to it...and conversations by topic make this the new technorati tags (well a machine tag version) - John Tropea
Much cleaner interface than techmeme. - Tabrez Iqbal
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a ning social network of failures - John Tropea
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John Tropea posted a message
“Scoble is a community, all he has 2 do is mutter a tweet or bookmark a link + people swarm with comments. the fact that he clicked a link adds all this value, anyone else sharing the same link is just not on the radar. If scoble chooses not 2 share a link there is an opportunity loss in the...”
July 3 at 5:49 pm - via fftogo - Link
Being visible and a known expert gets you places, but for some it could be a burden being a guru as everyone wants a piece of your talent and time...plus what you say is important as people are listening, so you have to be cautious in what you say, or the flipside, use your influence to change the world - John Tropea via fftogo
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Richard posted an entry on ReadWriteWeb
July 3 at 4:51 pm - Link
I'm finding FriendFeed more and more useful... it's kind of scary. AFAIC, I'm interested to see how this "CC" integration will work moving forward. It seems that a better approach, however, would be to enable me to create an account on ReadWriteWeb with my OpenID and then use OAuth to authorize my comments to be sent to my FriendFeed account, rather than having to type in my key everytime. - Chris Messina via FriendFeed MT Plugin
Sweet integration! I almost want to have an MT blog now, but I know Disqus is gonna come through for me in the end. Right, Daniel? Daniel? Anyway, good job, looks great and it really raises FriendFeed's profile here on RWW. - Phil Glockner via FriendFeed MT Plugin
w00t! just want to make sure that this shows up in the FF comment stream too. thanks for the info! - ~C4Chaos
@factoryjoe, I have thought about that approach as well. I may very well update the plugin in future such that your FF account can be linked to your MT login (whether native or OpenID). That would certainly make things smoother, as all your would need to enter is your openID. - Mark Carey via FriendFeed MT Plugin
I was just watching a presentation by Tapscott (wikinomics dude), with a panel of "next generation" Gen y'ers in front of big name NY execs. I was thinking it was unfair to mislead all these senior executives that they are representative of most people their age - the panel are just early tech adopters like everyone else here (rather than typical 22 year olds). But I've just come back to reality, realising how early adopters influence the masses - this is a perfect example of how a early adopter crowd influence an early adopter blog which in turns influences the mainstream media which in turn influence the mass market. News like this mark turning points for these products I think. - Elias Bizannes via twhirl
I think this is a cool feature and had to try it. I notice that some people have a blog-entry item that does inverse linking -- reporting pages that link to the blog entry. It looks like this is automated. I think that would be very useful and I am out to find out more. Wouldn't this (perhaps) solve the track-back problem. There would have to be some sort of white-list/black-list system to deal with link bait, though, wouldn't there? - Dennis E. Hamilton via FriendFeed MT Plugin
I changed the title, to remove Twitter. It's not technically correct that we're integrating Twitter -- although of course the link that attracts FriendFeed comments could come from Twitter. In this case it came from the RWW rss feed, but it also went to Twitter via Tweetfeed. The trouble with these things is they make one's head hurt :-) - Richard
Ah, now I am in FriendFeed and can see how this works from this side. Have to find the opportunity to comment in Twhirl too and I will be very happy. - Dennis E. Hamilton
@Richard: Interesting. The title doesn't change in FriendFeed, of course, but your comment about it does, which I guess is close enough for computer work. - Dennis E. Hamilton
the other cool thing is that the FF comments actually get saved to our RWW publishing software. So if FF ever went down or stopped working, the comments will still be on RWW. - Richard
I love this feature! I wish the WordPress plugin worked in a similar fashion. - Mack D. Male
Looking good! - Hao Chen
When I try to post trough Feedly, I get -error: 404 -- undefined'. Hmm... but it seems this is only true for some posts and not for others. - Kris Haamer
(Kris: thanks for the heads up. we are looking into this bug. will update http://www.getstatisfaction.co... and our blog when it is fixed). - Edwin Khodabakchian
Test post - Thomas Lundberg
who the heck gives a monkey's cuss? - Dennis Howlett via twhirl
Wow! Looks great. An elegant solution. - Chris Baskind
Good enough reason to take a second look at Movable Type - Andy Roberts
Nice work with the CC to FriendFeed, I really like the direction that this is going and FriendFeed integration with sites is definitely the way forward! - Joe Dawson (beta) via FriendFeed MT Plugin
Wow, this is cool. - Ryan Lejbak via FriendFeed MT Plugin
cool .... i swear a blog is coming that is ONLY comments, and a prize will be offered to determine what the article was about dang, startup anybody? - Gregory Lent via FriendFeed MT Plugin
Why doesnt FriendFeed share with other services? Instead of just gathering from other sources? - donclark
so what - isn't everyone doing that? - Dennis Howlett via twhirl
Dennis, it's relatively uncommon for multi-author blogs to. it was difficult to implement until the MT and wordpress plugins came along. - Richard
I love it! - Sarah Austin
I'm currently using Wordpress for my blog system. I'm going to try to install this: http://blog.slaven.net.au/word... , At least that's the only one I found for Wordpress. I may be wrong. But this is a great idea! - Dennis Jackson
The power of social network - LouCypher
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John Tropea posted a message
“My Friendfeed seems to be drawing conversation away from twitter a whole lot”
June 30 at 5:26 pm - via fftogo - Link
The conversations seem just so much easier to follow here, - MLx
Maybe if Twitter wasn't so erratic lately... Plus, I love seeing what folks are bookmarking, blogging, listening to, flickring, favoriting, etc. As long as keep my friends in FriendFeed limited to folks whose interests are too far afield from mine, then FriendFeed offers a great way to get alerts to the latest things library folks find interesting. - Stephen Francoeur
Yeah I feel Jaiku lost the market to friendfeed, as Jaiku is microblogging with comments and also lifestreaming. One difference is that a Jaiku comment is a new post as well as being threaded under the original item - John Tropea
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June 19 at 3:59 pm - Link
Dan has the roundup on the E2.0 conference - John Tropea
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May 28 at 4:24 pm - Link
I think its real value is in reducing the time between the spark of an idea and the point at which someone initiates execution on that idea (assuming it is a good idea). The problem is that 'process' can't really be applied to ideas and you can't apply - John Tropea
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May 20 at 4:04 pm - Link
A list of community managers on Twitter - John Tropea
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May 20 at 1:59 am - Link
An amazing post on knowledge sharing - John Tropea
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May 13 at 6:38 pm - Link
Government is the ultimate institution retaining the traditional top-down structure, technologically backward, with big decisions almost always made with incomplete information on what works and what doesn’t work. - John Tropea
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May 7 at 8:19 pm - Link
"At the strategic level, wikis challenge organisational culture with their openness, transparency and lack of built-in management control. This can translate to an explosive information growth far beyond the capacity of your organisation to manage that in - John Tropea
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May 7 at 7:49 pm - Link
the ist comment says it all - knowledge takes place in the conversations...the more social...the more knowledge people transfer to each other - John Tropea
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May 7 at 4:32 pm - Link
Simply put, a generally available RSS feed creation and subscription capability can increase the number of projects any one person can remain abreast of for the expenditure of a given unit of time - John Tropea
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In a journal you are reviewed by under ten people selected by the editor, in the blogosphere (or wikipedia) you are reviewed by far more http://www.cognitive-edge.com/... - John Tropea
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This is so true-to see what tools people use to do work, check out what IT is blocking - John Tropea
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