Comments on: Social architecture

By: Harold Jarche » Mapping metrics

Harold Jarche » Mapping metrics — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:15:57 +0000

[...] developing a non-profit campaign or a business network, it’s important to develop a social architecture, not just a technical one: Social architecture is the conscious design of an environment that [...]

By: Jon Husband

Jon Husband — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:35:57 +0000

Thoughtful post.

Of course I’d think so …. the signature line on my email and the tag line on my business cards reads “Social architecture and strategy for wired organizations”.

But seriously … thanks for the thoughtful post.

By: Jenny Ambrozek

Jenny Ambrozek — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:37:29 +0000

Timely topic given Business Week story “Putting a Price on Social Connections” reporting IBM MIT research: http://snurl.com/fosj1

By: Shiv Singh

Shiv Singh — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 04:11:11 +0000

As a follow up, here’s a great paper by Jodi Forlizzi of CMU on the subject – http://goodgestreet.com/CHI09/submissions/Forlizzi.pdf

By: Shiv Singh

Shiv Singh — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 04:09:06 +0000

Nice post. Reminds me of the research into social products in the human computer interaction space. But I prefer the framework as social architecture because it emphasizes the flow and how people interacting with each other is very much at the center. It is an architecture more than a product.

By: Martin Lindeskog

Martin Lindeskog — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:39:40 +0000

Maybe we will see an IT version of the great architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, in the social platform field?

By: scorpfromhell

scorpfromhell — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:22:51 +0000

I like the definition but I like the issue that was discussed even more – ensure that the use of the site aligns with its purpose. I am after all interested in social apps from a CRM perspective.

Now I need to weave this issue somehow into my proposed Social CRM IT landscape.

By: Jenny Ambrozek

Jenny Ambrozek — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:05:27 +0000

Patti, Intriguing post. Thanks. In your “social architecture” research I wonder if you looked at Ross Mayfield’s “Power Law of Participation”
http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2006/04/power_law_of_pa.html

that I find helps people understand beyond the “social” the array of roles and levels of engagement needed to make online spaces and networks accomplish the creator’s ambitions:
http://snurl.com/fmfwm [www_oreillynet_com]

I believe Ross’s Power Law was inspired by Tim O’Reilly’s 2004 “the architecture of participation” “to describe the nature of systems that are designed for user contribution”
http://snurl.com/fmfwm [www_oreillynet_com]

And I believe we both know Estee Solomon Gray who, with John Seely Brown contributed “People are the Company” to the inaugural “Fast Company” Magazine in 1995. In that they wrote: “Organizations are webs of participation. Change the patterns of participation, and you change the organization” http://www.fastcompany.com/node/26238/print