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The context for the way everyone works. Social systems emerge from the people, processes, tools, organizations, relationships, skills and information associated with a group of individuals.
Industry:Technology
Social software standards are protocols and data formats that have been agreed on by industry bodies or are, in practice, used by several products or services to support interoperability and for data/service access and reuse between social software environments.
Industry:Technology
Gartner defines social softwareas the tools that encourage, capture, and organize open and free-form interaction between employees, customers, and partners. It is a “socializing” technology—sometimes also referred to as Enterprise 2.0—that enables a grassroots approach to creating and exploiting collective knowledge.
Industry:Technology
Social search uses elements of user behavior, implicit and explicit, to improve the results of searches inside and outside enterprises. Such elements are typically stored as metadata, making social search a type of metadata mining. It also enables users to disambiguate results from their queries more effectively.
Industry:Technology
The capability for the masses to accumulate their individually developed content (versus shared development via a wiki) into a usable repository and shared channel for social use and feedback.
Industry:Technology
Social profiles are a description of individuals’ social characteristics that identify them on social media sites such as LinkedIn and Facebook, when using tools such as digg and Delicious as well as collaboration applications such as Jive, IBM Connections or Socialtext. Profiles describe any number of characteristics about individuals, such as interests, expertise, professional affiliations, status, recent activity and geographic location. Profiles are the digital DNA of a person, and where tagging of people-related content will occur. A social profile also displays information that helps to understand the type and strength of an individual’s relationships with others; for example, their level of participation and contribution in different initiatives, projects, communities, or conversations; their reputation among other participants, and so on. Creating a robust social profile allows individuals to be discovered by people who could benefit from an association with them. Companies are also beginning to experiment with social profiles as a means of reinforcing their organization’s brand identity.
Industry:Technology
A description of individuals’ salient characteristics that meaningfully identify them for a given social site, or for a collaboration application.
Industry:Technology
Social networking sites, such as LinkedIn, Facebook or MySpace, provide open membership where people can congregate to share information. They are an example of a decentralized network that exhibits emergent behavior.
Industry:Technology
The act of establishing online many-to-many human connections for the purposes of sharing information with the network or subsets thereof. Although one-to-one connections are possible in social network sites, the preponderance of activity engages a broader range of participants in any given network.
Industry:Technology
Social network analysis (SNA) tools are used to analyze patterns of relationships among people in groups. They are useful for examining the social structure and interdependencies (or work patterns) of individuals or organizations. SNA involves collecting data from multiple sources (such as surveys, emails, blogs and other electronic artifacts), analyzing the data to identify relationships, and mining it for new information—such as the quality or effectiveness of a relationship. Organizational network analysis is the form of SNA that examines the information flow among individuals. It depicts the informal social network—typically of groups working in the same enterprise. Value network analysis (VNA) examines the deliverables exchanged among roles—typically groups of people from multiple organizations that need to work together. Social influence network analysis scans social media to identify influential people, associations or trends in the collective.
Industry:Technology
