9 posts tagged “web 2.0”
I've already talked about this a bit, but Ross Dawson has an interesting post effectively summing up the impact of incautiously posting your life online.
One of the most socially transformative aspects of the web is that it not only lays everything bare, but it also has a permanent memory. It a fundamentally different world when anyone can in a moment uncover anything that’s ever become public about you. What becomes public includes not only what you choose to put on your blog, photo and video sharing sites, or other websites. It also includes comments, snapshots, rumors, and more posted without thought by those you have come across.
This will sound familiar to anyone who's fed up with being tagged in other people's facebook photos...
If I had the time or the energy, I'd be looking into a setting up my "Online Reputation Cleaning Consultancy". I'd be like a digital version of Harvey Keitel in Pulp Fiction. But less psychotically violent.
I can't remember why I didn't post this at the time, but up it pops again... Ross Dawson's Web 2.0 Framework.
(Full document here). An excellent way to explain what all this Web 2.0 malarkey is about to puzzled senior managers... although however hard I stare at the page showing the Web 2.0 landscape, I can't see facebook (although Myspace and LinkedIn are there). Perhaps it's my eyes.
Interesting post from Bobbie Johnson on the perils and politics of accepting friends online, whether it's Facebook or LinkedIn. I've been thinking about this one a lot. On the one hand, social media is... well, social. On the other, if you accept friendship requests and links from everyone that asks you, whether you know the first thing about them or not, does that devalue the meaning of the relationship? And finally, if you do want to turn people down because you don't feel you know them well enough, how the hell do you do it politely?
Sometimes this web stuff sure is tiring.
Mildly-relevant-estimated-statistic: Scoble, who's happy to add his readers as friends, says that he's actually met about 25% of the people he's added as friends.
Also relevant: link from Euan to John Udell's post on the Facebook 'How do you know this person' option that doesn't exist - met through the web.
So how much does it matter if you are blogging, Facebooking, Myspacing - sharing the details of your life online in any way, shape or form? I imagine that for many people, they don't give a second thought to how it may impact their life 'offline' - right up to the point where they find their online life caused them to miss out on a job because they are 'ethically unsuitable' for the organisation.
Since Emily Nussbaum covered Generation Y's increasing willingness to share every detail of their personal lives online in her piece Say Everything, I've seen a number of interesting posts mulling over the consequences - is this something younger people will come to regret as they get older and grow more conservative, or is there going to be a cultural shift that will mean your youthful Facebook profile won't count against you, as the person hiring you has one too?
I'm inclined to think the latter, but I also couldn't agree more with Antony Mayfield, that managing your personal online reputation will become a core life skill.
I have resisted the lure of Facebook for a long time now, partly because I had it filed under 'for sociable young people' and I am now of an age where I'm straying into Grumpy Old Woman territory. But I've been hearing more and more about it recently from people I wouldn't have thought of as natural Facebookers, and if Euan likes it and Richard Sambrook says that it's "for grown ups as well as the young digerati", then who am I to argue?
To further whet my appetite for first lines, here's Twitterlit - twice daily postings of the first line of books, with appropriate Amazon links if your curiousity is sufficiently aroused.
I haven't started using Twitter yet, but perhaps this is what will get me started.
(via Guardian Books blog)
I'm not a big fan of February, so I would have been more than happy to spend part of the month in the San Diego sunshine at the Fastforward conference. Sadly it wasn't to be, but in the meantime, the Fastforward blog has continued to provide some very thought-provoking posts, including:
- Euan Semple on understanding that yes, social media is social. This really interests me because I suspect that the fear factor of this social/personal aspect is one of barriers that will stop organisations adopting Enterprise 2.0, and for those that do make the leap, many of them may end up stifling the use and adoption of the tools by trying to make them too stiff and formal
- Kathleen Gilroy on why using a diverse selection of Web 2.0 tools might be a better bet than using Sharepoint
- Phil Wainewright on why you've got to work with the 1% rule when it comes to user participation
So I have not managed to blog recently, partly because our broadband went AWOL and partly because I was busy nipping up to Birmingham to stay in a cool hotel that makes you think you are sleeping in a ship (not recommended for claustrophobes or couples who have fallen out with each other).
So what did I miss in the meantime? Well, a ton of stuff, including this great video (already posted everywhere by the world and his wife - but I found it via Euan) that neatly explains Web 2.0.
Both posts from the Fastforward blog, which is giving me a lot of food for thought. Too bad I won't be able to join them in San Diego...
• Thought-provoking post from Bill Ives on whether Enterprise 2.0 will transform Enterprise KM. He points out that although the productivity gains are potentially enormous, systems won’t be enthusiastically adopted whilst people fail “to see any benefit for themselves from the transparency” and fear being “spied on”. I think this neatly encapsulates two of the main barriers to people adopting new ways of working – ‘What’s in it for me?’, and the fear factor.
• Rod Boothby on how using blogs and wikis as ‘worksites’ might increase adoption and solve a raft of business problems. I think the benefit that might hit home most for many CIOs is point 3 – Radically reduce email. It seems to me that more and more ‘corporate knowledge’ is buried deep in people’s email accounts, never to be retrieved or shared. Between that, and the problem of ever-growing email accounts, requiring ever greater amounts of storage, why wouldn’t an organisation want to cut down on email and make people’s information and knowledge more visible?
