A mini epiphany strikes a writer interested in enterprise social: Enterprise social networking sucks the social out of ‘social’. On an epiphanic scale, it’s more mega than mini, methinks. Social in the enterprise is nothing
Here’s a great and concise passage from Eric Berne on real social games: “The solitary individual can structure time in two ways: activity and fantasy. When one is a member of a social aggregation of
I dipped back into Eric Berne yesterday for a while. Berne was a Transactional Analyst, and has insights into the structure of human interaction that would seem obvious to us now. That, for example, interactions
At the risk of speaking too soon on Facebook’s announced design changes, I want to venture some reflections on what it seems Facebook is doing. I’ve long argued for capturing user interests over needs and
So Facebook, confronting a conundrum on where to press on user activity — Places or Pages — has nullified the Place checkin. In favor of location tagging, which is now possible from inside of Facebook
It’s out there, in the air, a murmur if not clear as writing on the wall. Hushed whispers about feed fatigue. Seasonal slowdown. A proliferation of bots. And among the real users: a sense that