Comments on: Unstructured vs. Structured Social Media http://www.centernetworks.com/structured-social-media Web 2 and Social Media News and Reviews Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:27:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Frank Denbow http://www.centernetworks.com/structured-social-media#comment-21522 Frank Denbow Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-21522 This is great stuff Allen! This is great stuff Allen!

]]> By: Jeff http://www.centernetworks.com/structured-social-media#comment-21542 Jeff Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-21542 Adrian, This is great thinking. Your thoughts on the implications of structure (or lack thereof) on self-organizing social interaction and the opportunities it presents has my mind spinning with all kinds of new ideas. Thank You! Adrian,

This is great thinking. Your thoughts on the implications of structure (or lack thereof) on self-organizing social interaction and the opportunities it presents has my mind spinning with all kinds of new ideas.

Thank You!

]]> By: Britta http://www.centernetworks.com/structured-social-media#comment-21548 Britta Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-21548 Adrian- This is an impressively thoughtful approach towards user interactions in response to the extent and kind of structure provided by any given social media platform. It's obvious and natural for behavior to be driven by personality and intent to shape the structure if given the opportunity, yet it's so implicit it can be easily overlooked. Thanks for making the point. Adrian- This is an impressively thoughtful approach towards user interactions in response to the extent and kind of structure provided by any given social media platform. It’s obvious and natural for behavior to be driven by personality and intent to shape the structure if given the opportunity, yet it’s so implicit it can be easily overlooked. Thanks for making the point.

]]> By: Gregorio http://www.centernetworks.com/structured-social-media#comment-21567 Gregorio Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-21567 Interesting discussion topic. Here is one set of tools that introduce structure in social media: structured wikis More generally, at the Augmented Social Cognition group of the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), we are studying structured wikis for research purposes. With structured wikis (or application wikis with structuring functions) we refer to wiki engines enhanced with lightweight programming features and database functionalities. We are focusing primarily, but on only, on novel user interface techniques and interesting new functionalities to organize content (such as wiki templating) or work process (such as (Unified Activity Management, www.research.ibm.com/uam or more simply IBM Co-Scripter). Feel free to contact me if you want to know more. See selection of pointers in this blog post on our research group blog: http://asc-parc.blogspot.com/2009/01/activities-workflows-and-structured.html You may be interested in this workshop at CHI 2009: http://social-mediating-technologies.org/ -- gregorio convertino@parc.com Interesting discussion topic.

Here is one set of tools that introduce structure in social media: structured wikis
More generally, at the Augmented Social Cognition group of the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), we are studying structured wikis for research purposes. With structured wikis (or application wikis with structuring functions) we refer to wiki engines enhanced with lightweight programming features and database functionalities. We are focusing primarily, but on only, on novel user interface techniques and interesting new functionalities to organize content (such as wiki templating) or work process (such as (Unified Activity Management, http://www.research.ibm.com/uam or more simply IBM Co-Scripter). Feel free to contact me if you want to know more.

See selection of pointers in this blog post on our research group blog:
http://asc-parc.blogspot.com/2009/01/activities-workflows-and-structured.html

You may be interested in this workshop at CHI 2009:
http://social-mediating-technologies.org/

– gregorio
convertino@parc.com

]]> By: Woody Lewis http://www.centernetworks.com/structured-social-media#comment-21609 Woody Lewis Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-21609 Very cogent analysis, Adrian, and you've opened up a new line of thinking for me. I just finished a project at Stanford, where I was part of a team building out a social network focused on alumni. Extending the legacy social practices into an online space appeared to be straightforward, but in reality there were many decisions to make regarding use cases, paradigms, and basic psychology. Tempering this environment were the various interests of different organizations, within the university and the alumni community, and of course under everything was the current of fundraising and e-commerce, now more critical than ever given the state of nearly every university's endowment. Strangely, your comments provoked memories from days as a Mac digital media programmer. In those days (80s-90s) it was called multimedia, but it's all one space now. Anyway, when writing MIDI and digital audio/video applications, for authors, performers, and end-users, a developer had to constantly accommodate the idea of psychology as it pertains to creativity. Visual objects, usually in the context of a tape transport, were provided to facilitate "recording" user input. Correlating those objects to the model-view-controller architecture so prevalent in today's buzz-speak was a constant challenge. Your remarks about sub-systems of user actions, multiple personality types, and classes of messages somehow struck me as connected to the paradigm of creativity and performance. More thoughts to come. /w Very cogent analysis, Adrian, and you’ve opened up a new line of thinking for me. I just finished a project at Stanford, where I was part of a team building out a social network focused on alumni. Extending the legacy social practices into an online space appeared to be straightforward, but in reality there were many decisions to make regarding use cases, paradigms, and basic psychology. Tempering this environment were the various interests of different organizations, within the university and the alumni community, and of course under everything was the current of fundraising and e-commerce, now more critical than ever given the state of nearly every university’s endowment.

Strangely, your comments provoked memories from days as a Mac digital media programmer. In those days (80s-90s) it was called multimedia, but it’s all one space now. Anyway, when writing MIDI and digital audio/video applications, for authors, performers, and end-users, a developer had to constantly accommodate the idea of psychology as it pertains to creativity. Visual objects, usually in the context of a tape transport, were provided to facilitate “recording” user input. Correlating those objects to the model-view-controller architecture so prevalent in today’s buzz-speak was a constant challenge.

Your remarks about sub-systems of user actions, multiple personality types, and classes of messages somehow struck me as connected to the paradigm of creativity and performance. More thoughts to come.

/w

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