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]]> Comment on The user is king - the user is not king by Jane Mejdahl http://wexploration.com/2008/03/27/the-user-is-king-the-user-is-not-king/#comment-68 Jane Mejdahl Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:44:48 +0000 http://wexploration.com/2008/03/27/the-user-is-king-the-user-is-not-king/#comment-68 Hi Alex. Thanks for your comment. I agree. Maybe you could tell me how you balance experts' (designers and developers) knowlegde and ideas with user needs in your work? Hi Alex. Thanks for your comment. I agree. Maybe you could tell me how you balance experts’ (designers and developers) knowlegde and ideas with user needs in your work?

]]> Comment on The user is king - the user is not king by Alexander Zeh http://wexploration.com/2008/03/27/the-user-is-king-the-user-is-not-king/#comment-67 Alexander Zeh Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:28:43 +0000 http://wexploration.com/2008/03/27/the-user-is-king-the-user-is-not-king/#comment-67 Jane, thank you for raising this point. I also think in order to design great products and services you have to focus on the experience. Such a design process can create products that are more than the sum of their parts and in addition holistically balance the users or experts needs and expectations. Jane, thank you for raising this point. I also think in order to design great products and services you have to focus on the experience. Such a design process can create products that are more than the sum of their parts and in addition holistically balance the users or experts needs and expectations.

]]> Comment on As dinner approaches dessert by Jane Mejdahl http://wexploration.com/2008/03/19/as-dinner-approaches-dessert/#comment-57 Jane Mejdahl Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:53:49 +0000 http://wexploration.com/2008/03/19/as-dinner-approaches-dessert/#comment-57 You know that I agree that ethnographic work is the only way to answer the last two questions. The first one: Well I suppose I haven't expressed myself very well. Alot of the literature I have been reading about social capital (not Bourdieu, but James Coleman, Robert Putnam and so on) argues that social capital is effected by the nature of relations eg. reciprocity and trust. And I gues what I meant was that what does reciprocity means? Do you have to like your colleague in order to establish reciprocity? I agree that it isn't easy to transfer knowledge from one setting to another when there's no meta-kind-of-sociality, but what you can transfer at least for comparative reasons is what you gain of theoretical insights from places such as teens in social media, but also from shamans' rituals in Western Canada...what I'm trying to say is, that when you can't generalize from your quantitative findings (when you don't have any) what you need to do is to generalize theoretically. You know that I agree that ethnographic work is the only way to answer the last two questions. The first one: Well I suppose I haven’t expressed myself very well. Alot of the literature I have been reading about social capital (not Bourdieu, but James Coleman, Robert Putnam and so on) argues that social capital is effected by the nature of relations eg. reciprocity and trust. And I gues what I meant was that what does reciprocity means? Do you have to like your colleague in order to establish reciprocity?

I agree that it isn’t easy to transfer knowledge from one setting to another when there’s no meta-kind-of-sociality, but what you can transfer at least for comparative reasons is what you gain of theoretical insights from places such as teens in social media, but also from shamans’ rituals in Western Canada…what I’m trying to say is, that when you can’t generalize from your quantitative findings (when you don’t have any) what you need to do is to generalize theoretically.

]]> Comment on As dinner approaches dessert by Søren Mørk http://wexploration.com/2008/03/19/as-dinner-approaches-dessert/#comment-56 Søren Mørk Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:27:59 +0000 http://wexploration.com/2008/03/19/as-dinner-approaches-dessert/#comment-56 Philosophy talks about the first question, but we can easily put that aside, since it is an established fact today that relations are more important than what they connect. The last two questions you can only answer by doing ethnographic work, as I suppose you do, and of course look at what others have done. I think a lot of the research on social media, and more generally sociology, anthropology and cultural studies of technology, examines exactly that kind of questions. The problem that springs to mind though is how to translate or transfer knowledge from one area to another. Most of the studies done on social media is concerned with young people in their everyday life setting, and those findings are not easily transferred into organizations; that is, there are no meta-kind-of-sociality that will ‘work’ in every culture. Organizations are small cultures, if we allow culture to be part of specific work tasks that needs to be performed locally or globally. Hence, and I’m pretty sure you agree, when you want to support the performance of specific tasks within an organization, you have to do ethnographic work and design specific solutions. One of the reasons that it today makes sense to talk about social capital in organizations that can be enabled and supported through the use of software, is because we have begun to use other and more flexible languages to code our social software with. That is, it can easily be adjusted to the culture and social mechanisms within specific organizations = enable specific local (and global structures). Value is as you say a problematic term, because we have so many different forms of capital and therefore different forms of value, that are not easily translated into one another. But that does not mean you cannot foster economic growth through the deployment of social capital strategically, but just cannot put it into a mathematical formula. But you can do it locally based on information from and about the specific organization. Philosophy talks about the first question, but we can easily put that aside, since it is an established fact today that relations are more important than what they connect. The last two questions you can only answer by doing ethnographic work, as I suppose you do, and of course look at what others have done. I think a lot of the research on social media, and more generally sociology, anthropology and cultural studies of technology, examines exactly that kind of questions. The problem that springs to mind though is how to translate or transfer knowledge from one area to another. Most of the studies done on social media is concerned with young people in their everyday life setting, and those findings are not easily transferred into organizations; that is, there are no meta-kind-of-sociality that will ‘work’ in every culture.
Organizations are small cultures, if we allow culture to be part of specific work tasks that needs to be performed locally or globally. Hence, and I’m pretty sure you agree, when you want to support the performance of specific tasks within an organization, you have to do ethnographic work and design specific solutions. One of the reasons that it today makes sense to talk about social capital in organizations that can be enabled and supported through the use of software, is because we have begun to use other and more flexible languages to code our social software with. That is, it can easily be adjusted to the culture and social mechanisms within specific organizations = enable specific local (and global structures).
Value is as you say a problematic term, because we have so many different forms of capital and therefore different forms of value, that are not easily translated into one another. But that does not mean you cannot foster economic growth through the deployment of social capital strategically, but just cannot put it into a mathematical formula. But you can do it locally based on information from and about the specific organization.

]]> Comment on In search of literature and tools by Jane Mejdahl http://wexploration.com/2008/02/20/in-search-of-literature-and-tools/#comment-45 Jane Mejdahl Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:30:34 +0000 http://wexploration.com/2008/02/20/in-search-of-literature-and-tools/#comment-45 Hi Klaus. Thanks for your kind words. We are all very pleased with the conference mainly because of the ever avid participants. And thanks for sending me your thesis. I'll read it during my easter holiday. Hi Klaus. Thanks for your kind words. We are all very pleased with the conference mainly because of the ever avid participants.
And thanks for sending me your thesis. I’ll read it during my easter holiday.

]]> Comment on In search of literature and tools by Klaus Trolle http://wexploration.com/2008/02/20/in-search-of-literature-and-tools/#comment-44 Klaus Trolle Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:07:29 +0000 http://wexploration.com/2008/02/20/in-search-of-literature-and-tools/#comment-44 Hi Jane I can't belive I spent the entire day at the Widepeek conference without realising that you were the "Jane" present at the conferencee. Somehow I must have missed the relation between your blog and Wemind. The discussions about social network analysis today reminded me of your blog and my post in it and *puf* the connectiong was of course obvious. Anyway, great conference today - well done everyone at Wemind! I have e-mailed you our thesis. I hope you find it useful and not too ZzzzZZz.. :) Feel free to get in touch if you'd like to discuss any of the stuff in there or SNA in general. Thanks again to all of you for a very inspirational conference. Hi Jane

I can’t belive I spent the entire day at the Widepeek conference without realising that you were the “Jane” present at the conferencee. Somehow I must have missed the relation between your blog and Wemind. The discussions about social network analysis today reminded me of your blog and my post in it and *puf* the connectiong was of course obvious.

Anyway, great conference today - well done everyone at Wemind!

I have e-mailed you our thesis. I hope you find it useful and not too ZzzzZZz.. :) Feel free to get in touch if you’d like to discuss any of the stuff in there or SNA in general.

Thanks again to all of you for a very inspirational conference.

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