In many organizations where network enablers, such as wikis, blogs, or
social software, are not used, effective sponsorship of such tools would require a total shift in the traditional corporate culture.
Meanwhile, although Community and
Social Software vendors may effectively support user-generated content, CMS Watch found that these suppliers generally cannot provide the sorts of workflow and lifecycle services that a public agency needs for publishing official content beyond the firewall.
"We help them effectively use
social software. Technologies that have been successful in the consumer space like MySpace and Facebook, how do you take those kinds of things and apply them to business needs?"
Social software is defined simply as "software that supports group interactions" (2).
"Selecting and implementing enterprise
social software solutions, next-generation collaboration solutions, and Rich Internet Applications requires careful thought, consideration, and planning."
Here is the first book to explore the growing phenomenon of
social software and how these technologies can be applied in libraries.
Another example of
social software is Wikipedia, the Internet encyclopedia.
More and more young people favour new
social software tools such as podcasting, blogging and instant messaging.
Like Alan Partridge, Tommy Saxondale has a tiny but vital piece of
social software missing - which means that however hard he thinks he's trying to fit in, he'll never be short of enemies.
Acuity Corp, formerly iChat, has changed so much since changing its name that it now plans to sell its iChat product line and get out of the web-based
social software business altogether.
[USPRwire, Sun Nov 01 2015] Enterprise
social software (ESS) involves integration of various software platforms and social networking.
Together, the proceedings contains 40 papers on such topics as intelligent environment approaches applied in water management, whether mobile
social software promotes learning spoken English, virtual worlds for three-dimensional visualizations, smart ambient learning with physical artifacts using wearable technologies, and another view of empire--camera control for heritage applications.