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Social Media vs. Social Technology: Refining Definitions

Posted by: Ken Fischer in: ● January 4, 2009

The wikipedia entry has been updated since I wrote this post and now clearly seems define social media as content. So what about the technology? Can we call it social technology?
Is the technology used to post, read, sharecontent, improve navigation and relevance by making use of user behavior and input, the same as the content [...]

Mostly Plain English Workshop Report

Posted by: Ken Fischer in: ● December 11, 2008

A quick report on our the first in our Mostly Plain English workshop. Some comments, critiques and look forward to future workshops.

The ‘getting it’ gap: A guide to ‘get’ the online generation

Posted by: Ken Fischer in: ● November 24, 2008

Remember your first virtual conversation? It was longer ago than you think.
It seems the world is divided into 2 groups, the offliners and onliners. An onliner is someone who is mystified by the online social activity of what we will call the “onliners” and just so we don’t get into too much trouble, [...]

I have been struggling on how to think about the Web 2.0 or social media phenomenon. It seems to have taken on its own language now. And I made the mistake in 2007 of trying to explain Web 2.0 using those infectious terms of blog, tweet, follow, friending etc. This tool centered explanation by [...]