/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Picking out patterns in the chaos en-us suw.charman@gmail.com 2008-07-23T13:37:55+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/07/23/cio_magazine_its_not_just_facebook.php My article about social networking, It's not just Facebook, has been published in this month's CIO Magazine. In it, I talk to Alastair MacKenzie and Brendan Tutt from IBM about how they transformed their internal phone directory into something much... 73459@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Social networking 2008-07-23T13:37:55+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/06/20/why_isnt_social_software_spreading_like_wildfire_through_business.php Andrew McAfee asked a deceptively simple question to a panel at Enterprise 2.0 last week, "If Enterprise 2.0 tools and approaches really are so beneficial and powerful, why haven’t they spread like wildfire?" He was surprised that no one fingered... 73384@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Business blogging - internal 2008-06-20T10:22:51+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/05/29/fruitful_seminars_making_social_tools_ubiquitous.php Lloyd Davis, Leisa Reichelt and I have been spending a lot of time plotting just lately, and the result of our machinations was the creation, at midnight in a semi-derelict Gothic mansion and with the help of a bolt of... 73336@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Business blogging - internal 2008-05-29T11:30:18+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/04/30/facebook_in_reality.php Many social software experts talk about mapping real world social behaviours onto online spaces. This is a bit of the reverse and shows why some (some would say many) things in Facebook just don't work. social networking, Facebook... 73265@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ 2008-04-30T15:02:02+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/04/23/bored_of_facebook.php Not a question I can answer, as I've managed with no little effort to avoid joining, but I know more than one person who might agree with this (via Reportr):... 73249@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Social networking 2008-04-23T12:13:21+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/04/10/confessing_a_dirty_little_secret.php In January's Fast Company was an article by Clive Thompson, Is The Tipping Point Toast? I read it with interest and made a mental note to at least add it to our Del.icio.us feed. But over the last two months... 73220@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Community 2008-04-10T15:31:31+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/01/24/a_social_network_for_wired_journalists.php Ryan Sholin, Howard Owens and Zac Echola in the US have started a Ning network for wired journalists and those looking to network and gain experience. The mission is: WiredJournalists.com was created with self-motivated, eager-to-learn reporters, editors, executives, students... 73050@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Journalism 2008-01-24T18:10:55+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/12/15/are_social_networks_in_business_a_white_elephant_or_is_gartners_report_a_red_herring.php Gartner have recently released a report, Three Potential Pitfalls of Corporate Social Networking by Brian Prentice, with the tagline "Investing in social networking solutions from enterprise vendors is no guarantee that users will embrace the technology." I'll probably never get... 72945@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Social networking 2007-12-15T13:01:47+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/08/14/xmedialab_melbourne_martha_ladly_mobile_experience_design.php Again apologies to Martha about not getting this up sooner, but I'm glad that I've had some time to digest what she was saying and also do some casual surfing to explore the projects that she was talking about.... 72598@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Community 2007-08-14T16:15:47+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/08/11/xmedialab_melbourne_martin_hoffman_moko_and_loop_mobile.php Martin Hoffman is with Moko, a mobile-only social network, not using mobile as an extension of the PC experience as Bebo and MySpace are doing. Social networks have their own metrics, looking beyond page views and looking at the... 72588@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Community 2007-08-11T01:14:41+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/08/11/xmedialab_melbourne_francisco_cordero_bebo.php Francisco Cordero of Bebo said that social media and networking serves our need to be distracted for a little while and allows people to share who they are with others. Ten percent of all of the data traffic in... 72587@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Media 2.0 2007-08-11T01:13:29+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/03/18/how_much_lived_experience_does_your_news_site_cover.php One of the most common mistakes that news organisations make when it comes to community is trying to build participation strategies around an extremely narrow, overly-professionalised definition of news. If you want to miss the opportunity with blogs and other... 72136@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Community 2007-03-18T19:16:37+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/02/02/bad_flickr_no_donut_for_you.php The day before yesterday, I blogged about Flickr forcing users to switch over to using a Yahoo! ID to access their Flickr account, and the patronising email I got about it. I was not a happy camper. Now the furore... 71965@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Fuckwittery 2007-02-02T08:44:03+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/01/31/yahooflickr_get_the_bullyboy_tactics_out.php If there's one thing I hate, it's being told what to do. That's why I've been a freelance for so long. I like making my own decisions and resent having them made for me, so it's not surprising that... 71961@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Fuckwittery 2007-01-31T16:05:49+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2006/11/15/exploding_the_blog_myth.php I really shouldn't take the piss out of a British media icon, but in this case, it's just too inviting. Jeff Jarvis pointed out something in the Indy, in which they asked a bunch of British media heavyweights about the... 69195@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Blogging - general 2006-11-15T23:45:51+00:00