Social Software Elements

I built this slide for the Social Software and Tagging Workshop at the IA Konfrenz in Stuttgart earlier in November.

Yes, the credit card colors circles will change.

Using Karin Knorr Cetina's "Object-centered sociality" as the base (identity and object are the core elements of social software) I built-in the remaining core elements: presence, sharing, reputation, groups, relationships, conversation, actions, and collaboration.

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plindberg says:

Interesting! Do you intend to post the entire set slides somewhere?
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

vanderwal says:

I may put the set of slides related to this up on slideshare.net. This is a work in progress so far. I have not brought in the relatively old concepts of person to person communications and the noise (from technology) models from the 1950s.

Part of this slide makes more sense with the build in (order) and narrative that accompanies it. That will likely be in a blog post.
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

Choconancy1 says:

Is the distance between reputation and object intentional? I ask, because, for example, reputation in Flickr is often strongly related to the object (photo) whereas in a relationship centric setting, rep and relationships are more social and often less object oriented. Did that make any sense?
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

NRDC pix says:

Kismet -- just so happens that I'm scouring through a lot of documents laying out various ideas of what functional requirements of an object-centered social site I'm working on should be. And this is sort of a lucid, handy-dandy checklist of feature considerations! Gracias Thomas.
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

vanderwal says:

Nancy (Chocanancy1) the rollout of elements in order are: presence, sharing, reputation (based on what other's see you sharing), relationships, groups, conversation, actions, and collaboration.

Distance has some relevance, but an identities presence and what they share (related to an object or not) is what drives reputation. Based on the derived and/or perceived reputation a relationship is made (which may be a decision not to have a relationship).

So, in short, yes.
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

vanderwal says:

A good part of what drove this was Gene Smith's honeycomb graphic of social software building blocks, which was missing object and collaboration. I have chatted with Gene about the graphic, which works well but the visualization choice constrained the number of elements.

Object is central to solid social software interaction, think of Flickr as an example with conversation around the object (photos). Collaboration is essential for understanding social software in a business/intranet context (where I a doing a lot of work these days).
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

vanderwal says:

I finally have done a full write-up around this found at The Elements in the Social Software Stack :: Personal InfoCloud. Comments are open there.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

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