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August 25, 2004
Udell on Social Software Tools
Posted by Liz Lawley
Jon Udell's got an excellent
Infoworld column on social software. Closing paragraph makes a killer point:
Armed with such powerful tools, people can collectively enrich shared data. But will they? The success of Flickr and del.icio.us won't necessarily translate to the intranet. You can import the global-hive mind, but you can't export the local-hive mind. That asymmetry defines the challenge we face as enterprise knowledge gardeners.
Read the whole thing, for a good analysis of what makes both Flickr and del.icio.us powerful tools. Udell is one of the few technology pundits I know who has a true inner librarian (that's a _good_ thing, btw).
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