Research is not about playing with data and questionable methodologies and epistemologies. It happens in the field and we are all potential (and powerful) researchers.
 
It is not my intention to enter into a technical debate, even if I had the chance to attend the lectures of a thought leader in methodology and epistemology for research […]

Social computing impacts two levels when entering the corporate arena. The first one is the technical level and corresponds to the computing part of social computing. The second one is the cultural level and corresponds to the social part of social computing.
 
In the following blog posts I will detail both and show that one cannot […]

This is the one that Andrew McAfee probably had in mind when he coined the term “Enterprise 2.0” and defined it as the use of social software platforms within companies or between companies and their partner and /or customers.
 
Blogs, wikis, social-bookmarks, Rss feeds, tags and human filters, Personalised Pages, Virtual Worlds are elements of social […]

Social networks replace directories. Behind there is the very same intuition that lead to the creation of Facebook: alumni directories are out of age; one can do much better. This challenges centralised mailing systems in their role of corporate “white pages”. Social networks humanise directories by allowing putting a face on a name, displaying additional […]

One of the many technical issue organisations have to deal with is information organisation. One can call it classification. This is traditionally addressed thru a comprehensive set of taxonomy. Trick is that it is an endless and never user satisfying job. It is costly and often irrelevant. Some organisations have regular commissions to agree on […]