8 Social Software and Communities

8 Social Software and Communities

1. Web 2.0

   • direct interaction of the participants within the medium
   • Social Software
     • center of social software is individual or group
     • Information Dissemination
     • Relationship: Communities
       • informal group of people who have the same interests and similar goals or workflows
       • communities of interest
       • Communities of practice
     • Communication
   • New internet technologies
   • Openness and reusability
   • New business model

2. Social Software in a business environment

   • Network services
   • Wikis
   • Joint indexing
   • Blogs

3. Difference between social software and CSCW

   • based exclusively on modern web technologies in contrast to CSCW