| Slide 1 |
| Platonic Wikis and Subversive Social Interfaces |
| Jonah Bossewitch | |
| Plone Conference | |
| Vienna, Austria: September 20, 2005 | |
| This talk will consider Plone as a preeminent platform for deploying Social Software in a variety of configurations. We will also explore the affordances that a Plone environment fosters, and the expanding role of Software Architecture as a leading art. Finally, we will examine the ecology of the Plone project itself in light of this analysis. | |
| Innocent Questions |
| Explain the differences between a blog, a wiki, and a forum? | |
| When should a community use which and why? | |
| Is plone a wiki? | |
| Is a wiki a CMS? | |
| WWJD? |
| Modalities of Social Software |
| wikis and blogs and forums and tagging (distributed classification) | |
| proliferation and diffuse nature of these concepts |
| The Platonic Forms |
| wiki's workflow, blog's workflow, etc | |
| It is all just rules and policy applied to content | |
| What's interesting are the variations and riffs around these familiar forms |
| Tagging and Folksonomies |
| Tagging as a social activity | ||
| source: http://dlib.org/dlib/april05/hammond/04hammond.html | ||
| The Perfect CMS |
| The workflow is arbitrarily configurable | ||
| If it is truly arbitrary, might as well make it deliberate | ||
| Impact Space: | ||
| Situated Within This Space |
| Environments which foster one end or another | |
| One blog per person vs. shared blogging | |
| A Plone w/ open workflow as a wiki, Plone's news, etc |
| Environmental Affordances |
| Perceived Plone Landscape |
| Actual Landscape |
| Plone Process |
| Plone Community |
| Plone Ecology |
| Sustainable Plone Evolution |
| Case Studies |
| Educational Multimedia Case Constructor (http://emcc.ccnmtl.columbia.edu) | |
| Post-Graduate Life-Long-Learning Plan (http://pgd.ccnmtl.columbia.edu) | |
| PloneStickies (http://plone.org/products/stickies) |
| Appendix |
| Social Software |
| "A new generation of socio-technical systems that facilitate human expression, communication, and collaboration.Ò (Ulises Ali Mejias) | |
| social interfaces - mediating human-human interaction (Joel Spolsky) | |
| ergonomics:ui::ui:social interfaces | |
| Examples |
| Software ÒArchitectureÓ |
| affordances | |
| leading art | |
| behavior/worldview |
| Completing the Circle |
| f/oss as inflection point | |
| values of developers embodied in features of system | |
| e.g. cc licenses |
| Wiki Prayer |
| ÒPlease, Grant me the serenity to accept the pages I cannot edit, | |
| The courage to edit the pages I can, | |
| And the wisdom to know the differenceÓ |