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John Tropea of Library Clips wrote an interesting, long blog post on " Conversations, Connections and Context ". Go ahead and read it, it's worth your time, if you ask me! John addresses a topic that connect be stressed enough: the concept of context in IT. The stronger the relationship and commonalities you have with a bunch of people, the more you understand each others writings, the more chance their knowledge comes to be your knowledge. You probably agree with this, don't you. But then most of us carry on with our lives. John takes us back to this statement and makes us take a good look at it. Do we really understand the implications of context for instance when we email? Yes, we understand it when we discuss stuff face-to-face. But what happens when we have a conversation via email? Or when we codify 'knowledge'? W.r.t. codifying John says: But the problem here even is that a codified solution is usually formal (stripped of context) eg. when this happens...

Web Strategy's Jeremiah Owyang has an insightful, short post on the difference between Forums, Blogs, and Social Networks . I agree with Mick's comment that the definition of "social networks" does not fit all kinds of social network tools, but it's a good start anyway. As soon as people understand what a social network (tool) is, we can start telling them about the different flavors. In the comments Jeremiah also gives a definition of a wiki: "collaborative white boards" or "libraries". I still find the "visual definitions" of wiki's, rss, blogs, etc in short video's by Common Craft also say it all. Related to this post Jeremiah also has an interesting video-interview with himself on social networks and what they mean for enterprises and enterprise marketing.