Personal InfoCloud

I have written about stopping using the word “trust” in the past and this practices has been a regular part of talks and workshops going back to around 2008 or so, and I wrote it up in Removing Trust – Personal InfoCloud.

Complexity occurs when there are multiples of elements and drivers, each with their own forces and directions that impact other elements around them.

20 Social Roles Overview and Background In 2011 I publicly shared the 20 Social Roles in a presentation to the Enterprise 2.0 conference.

Intro: The last two or three years have been “interesting” in the community platform space as things have been shifting quite a bit with regard to vendors.

I started my trek designing, developing, and managing social / collaboration platforms in 1996.

I have a lot of hands-on designing, developing, and managing of social / collaborative platforms since 1996 and regularly advise product makers, vendors, and buyers around right fitting and understanding then working on solving problems they may have.

One constant in the 20 years I’ve been working in and around organizations and their social platforms is lack of understanding of the diversity of tool types.

During the last couple of years, since Slack has been publicly available, it has taken off like wildfire.

In 2008, or so, I would have semi-regular calls with a friend who was also doing social and collaboration consulting and advising.

One of the things that has brought happiness from the Connected Company book being out for nearly three years (now in paperback), is getting the idea of podular teams and organization out there for a wider understanding.