Social Software Building Blocks / nForm / Customer Insight, Strategy, Design and Development

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While doing research for a recent workshop, I came across a useful list of seven social software elements. These seven building blocks--identity, presence, relationships, conversations, groups, reputation and sharing--provide a good functional definition for social software. They're also a solid foundation for thinking about how social software works. The original list was assembled by Matt Webb (who was expanding on a list created by Stewart Butterfield). Here's a brief definition of each element: * Identity - a way of uniquely identifying people in the system * Presence - a way of knowing who is online, available or otherwise nearby * Relationships - a way of describing how two users in the system are related (e.g. in Flickr, people can be contacts, friends of family) * Conversations - a way of talking to other people through the system * Groups - a way of forming communities of interest * Reputation - a way of knowing the status of other people in the system (who's a good citizen? who can be trusted?) * Sharing - a way of sharing things that are meaningful to participants (like photos or videos)

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• Saved by Joi Podgorny on May 15, 2007.
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