Topic Ideas for Session 4
Discussion and Creation of a Workshop White Paper

Topics discussed in papers

• Social networks: what works and what does not
• Privacy Issues (Access Control)
  • Will the desire for access control change with the growth of the younger user population?
• Out-Of-Group Experience
  • Media Competition?
• New Opportunities?
  • Blurring the lines between Synchronous/Asynchronous
  • Users compensating for missing system functionality by using other Web 2.0 Technologies
• Changing Mindsets
  • Younger Users v.s. Older Users
  • Older Industries (Aerospace) v.s. Newer Industries (Google)
• Control of Information v.s. Grass Roots Commuication
  • Bayer v.s. Daimler
• How do we assess the value of SN in the Enterprise?
  • The Social Life of Information (Brown and Duguid)
  • Talking abut Work (Orr)
  • Good Examples: Bayer Social Visualizations
    • Gives reasons for people to talk to each other
    • Lowers threshold for communication
    • Is there a quantifiable benefit?
  • Serendipity v.s. On Demand
• Crossing Boundries
  • Customer-Designer
  • University-Industry
• Problems with Tagging
  • Tagging is context dependent
    (tags do not transfer across different contexts)
  • Tagging v.s. Foldering
  • Are a large number of tags required for them to be useful?
    • findings suggest usefulness at the small group level
• Expertise Tagging
  • Co-workers describe your expertise
  • Can this be used for User Modeling–not just finding experts?
  • How do Tags reflect actual expertise?
• Motivation: Co-Activity -> Me-Mentality and We-Mentality

Topics NOT discussed in papers

• Micro collaboration
  • Ad hoc people networks
• New services
  • Facebook
  • Twitter.