Social Software and the Enabling Council
August 9th, 2004From an article enitled, Social Software and the Enabling Council:
“What these increasingly popular forms of ’social software’ demonstrate is that people will interact online around shared interests. However, rather than just connecting people on the other side of the world with an unusual passion for first editions of Local Government White Papers, we are increasingly seeing social software being used for the development of voluntary, bottom-up social networks around the common interest of the locality. In short, the internet is becoming more local.”
Chew on this: librarians working together in an online social network community for collaboration, getting help with reference questions, interlibrary loans, and much more. I keep hearing this song playing in the back of my brain: “Something tells me I’m into something good” (link via Headshift)