Networks, Complexity, and Relatedness

Networks, Complexity, and Relatedness
Inquiry and learning into social networks, organizational network analysis, and the relationships among people and systems in complex organizations and networks.

Friday, February 06, 2004

The Context of Connections

Once again, Stowe Boyd's thinking on social networks and social software (in his latest Darwin magazine article on the topic, The Barriers of Content and Context ) resonates.

We have different social networks (personal, family, and even different work contexts) and have yet to see differentiation in the software becoming available that lets us convey the context of a connection. Stowe also argues for a future in which content -- content about the nature of connections as well as the content passed among connections -- is more easily expressed. He concludes:

Social tools, i.e., software designed to intentionally shape culture, are going to become the cornerstone of a revolution in information technology. Social networking applications, one variant of social tools, will rapidly expand in functionality through the integration of conventional and innovative approaches to counter the context-and-content limitations of today's applications.

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