Social Software Categories When it comes to Social Software in the Enterprise the full suite solutions are on their way. See the last Gartner Magic Quadrant for Social Software for details and vendors. As the pure products vanish and build up on functionality, it might be worth a look to some general categorizations of social software. So we won’t have to talk about “kind of a blog with wiki functionality” or something similar. Gartner uses the dimensions “ability to execute” and “completeness of vision” in the Magic Quadrant which are great for vendors or products, but not for functionality in general. A common approach in germany builds upon a classification system for CSCW-Systems. (Teufel, 1995) The first adoption for Social Software by Schmidt focused on the three funtions Informationmanagement, Identitymanagement and Connectionmanagement. In an improved version by Koch and Richter (Cooperation Systems Center Munich (german), Bundeswehr University Munich) changed the connection part to communication and added the loose connections to the identitymanagement. You might think of all your quiet facebook friends here. Niall Cook has a totally different Matrix, the 4C’s as in his book Enterprise 2.0 book. I merged two diagrams to get this one, so some software examples aren’t in here. I’m not confident with this classification as there are some well known apps split up across the matrix, i.e. Tagging and Social Bookmarking. In the original book you’ll find more examples. Cook mentions cooperation and collaboration, two points which misses out on both triangles. Another idea is a draft by Joachim Niemeier in a german slideshare presentation. Personally I like the quadrant best, but I would add some modifications to it. As long as my ideas on this are not fully set, I prefer even more inspiration. So did I miss out some well known ideas? tweet share share share share email RSS feed The following two tabs change content below.BioLatest Posts Kai Nehm Latest posts by Kai Nehm (see all) Live-Blogging/Monitoring from Confluence Community Day / Frankfurt - 29/10/2009 Andrew McAfee on Enterprise 2.0 - 21/08/2009 Social Software Categories - 19/08/2009 Related posts: Can social software “work” in Germany? Social software tools within the enterprise – not a revolution but an evolution Rewarding social software participation within the corporation Interne Kommunikation mit Social Software unterstützen – Interview mit Dirk Röhrborn enterprise2open New blog post: Social Software Categories http://bit.ly/HnePC This comment was originally posted on Twitter 19/08/2009 at 12:58 PM bn_at_twitter RT @enterprise2open: Social Software Categories http://bit.ly/HnePC => @traukainehm – our new staff member with his intro post – wow! This comment was originally posted on Twitter 19/08/2009 at 1:29 PM enterprise20 Some approches to categorize Social software http://bit.ly/Kgb9H – overview on the @enterprise2open blog by @traukainehm This comment was originally posted on Twitter 19/08/2009 at 1:37 PM masareus RT @enterprise20: Some approches to categorize Social software http://bit.ly/Kgb9H – overview on the @enterprise2open blog by @traukainehm This comment was originally posted on Twitter 19/08/2009 at 1:39 PM schaeferblick I do also like the classification given by Andrew P. McAfee regarding the tool and the strength of the connection (or interaction) it does address. http://andrewmcafee.org/2007/11/how_to_hit_the_enterprise_20_bullseye/ 20/08/2009 at 8:34 AM schaeferblick I do also like the classification given by Andrew P. McAfee regarding the tool and the strength of the connection (or interaction) it does address. http://andrewmcafee.org/2007/11/how_to_hit_the_enterprise_20_bullseye/ 20/08/2009 at 8:34 AM Kai Nehm @schaeferblick Thanks for the link to McAfee. It’s nice to see that people and the links between them are most important in his classification, not the tasks or the technology. 20/08/2009 at 4:27 PM Kai Nehm @schaeferblick Thanks for the link to McAfee. It’s nice to see that people and the links between them are most important in his classification, not the tasks or the technology. 20/08/2009 at 4:27 PM Klaus-Peter Speidel Just wrote a little thoughtpiece on http://blog.hypios.com concering this subject and based on your post here. 20/08/2009 at 6:15 PM Klaus-Peter Speidel Just wrote a little thoughtpiece on http://blog.hypios.com concering this subject and based on your post here. 20/08/2009 at 6:15 PM tim_krischak Social Software Categories http://bit.ly/2E9X1 This comment was originally posted on Twitter 20/08/2009 at 8:18 PM EricPosner Social Software Categories: http://tinyurl.com/nutvgz This comment was originally posted on Twitter 20/08/2009 at 8:59 PM Hypios Social Software Categories http://bit.ly/2E9X1 This comment was originally posted on Twitter 22/08/2009 at 4:21 PM tnpb Social software categories: http://bit.ly/q7OXJ This comment was originally posted on Twitter 22/08/2009 at 4:27 PM neelnshah must see – http://bit.ly/HnePC | Plz RT 🙂 #twitter This comment was originally posted on Twitter 24/08/2009 at 9:36 AM JoachimNiemeier Delighted @traukainehm mentioned my draft version of the social software quadrant – http://bit.ly/3fugDs | Must work on it! This comment was originally posted on Twitter 25/08/2009 at 12:29 PM Karsten Ehms I was (an am) developing and rearranging the social software triangle, please see here if you like: http://blog.persoenliches-wissensmanagement.com/?p=539 http://www.ehms.net/?story=2223 02/09/2009 at 12:19 PM Karsten Ehms I was (an am) developing and rearranging the social software triangle, please see here if you like: http://blog.persoenliches-wissensmanagement.com/?p=539 http://www.ehms.net/?story=2223 02/09/2009 at 12:19 PM Pingback: Social software and the alleged absence of competition « Hypios – Thinking Pingback: Social software and the alleged absence of competition « Hypios – Thinking