Hate everything about “Social Computing?” Want a tool that is completely anti-social but still allows people to collaborate without ever having to communicate with another human being?
Wikis might be the answer.
Traditionally, the basic path to how we, as human beings, get to the point of collaborating might look like this:
Discover -> Connect -> Communicate -> Collaborate (“DCCC”)
Wiki’s break this path…
I can discover a piece of content called a Wiki page without ever having to connect, nor communicate with another human being and yet I can still use the tool for collaboration.
A wiki is the perfect anti-social collaboration tool.
We can LEVERAGE wikis as content stores to facilitate the location of expertise and allow us to START the cylce of “DCCC” but in itself, contibuting to a wiki doesn’t promote the growth or stengthening of a person’s network.
I can’t think of another tool that does this.
Filed under: Collaboration, Social Computing
Yep, and put social networking together with wikis, throw in the industry-leading discussion forum solution, and you’ve got Jive Clearspace.
So, you can be anti-social all you want, or you can discover, connect, and collaborate, all in the same tool.
Or, you could keep trying to integrate a bunch of separate apps together, which is what most companies are trying to do, unfortunately.