Social Software
The latest category of software to be defined (or redefined, depending on your perspective) is 'social software', or tools that enable social networking. The key difference between this and groupware or other collaborative software is that the networks self-organise from the bottom up. Blogs and instant messaging are a perfect example of this. According to Eva Kaplan-Leiserson of Learning Circuits, learning networks in organisations can and do follow a similar model, a phenomenon she dubs 'we-learning'.
http://www.learningcircuits.org/2003/dec2003/kaplan.htm
Posted by Lisa Galarneau at December 22, 2003 09:34 AM
