(2017-05-16) Boyd Rise And Fall Of Work Media

Stowe Boyd: The Rise and Fall of Work Media

Here’s a chart that shows different sorts of social tools for work. Note that this is not exhaustive: there are many other sorts of social tools at use in the enterprise

The patterns of interaction popularized by social networks led to the creation of enterprise social networks (or, as I call them, work media tools, based on their roots in social media.) Note that the emergence and adoption of work media tools — like Yammer, Jive, Chatter, Podio, Socialcast, and dozens of others — displaced the earlier, pre-web-2.0 social tools like Socialtext, Lotus Notes, and eRoom, which had been based on earlier concepts of social tools for work. (Intranet)

I use the term "sets" for small, team-sized groups (less than a dozen, typically), and "scenes" for a network of sets (less than 150, typically). Companies can be much larger, comprising a network of scenes, or "spheres" (with hundreds or thousands of people)