Talk:Social computing

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Recently merged in content from Enterprise 2.0, which duplicated some of this article and its references, and needed a context beyond the origins of that term.

There seems to be general agreement that

Recent changes in enterprise software related to social computing are significant and of lasting importance
Many people need a shared place to work on describing this generation of software, its features and uses, and how it relates to the rest of the social computing and enterprise worlds.
The right name for the new generation of enterprise social software is unclear
- Many people currently call this generation of software, and its surrounding culture shift, "enterprise 2.0", though not all of them use it the same way
- While the term is in common use now, it may not itself be of lasting importance

As such, work on describing this generation of software and surrounding movements has been moved to this page, under the heading enterprise social software. When there is more than 3 short paragraphs about the topic, it can be moved into its own article; preferably with that kind of descriptive name. If one or another shorthand for the topic becomes predominant and lasting, the article can later be renamed. Right now, we need more and better content. Thanks to all who are contributing to the quality of this and related articles. +sj + 22:22, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AfD discussion about Enterprise 2.0

see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Enterprise 2.0 (second nomination)

merge

the definition "social computing refers to the use of social software" makes it pretty damn obvious that this stub article should be merged into social software (identical scope). dab (𒁳) 19:47, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Experts in the field (Wendy Kellogg, Tom Erickson, and others) agree that this article should NOT be merged.

rewrite

I think that social computing is distinct from social software. If no one objects, I'm going to take a stab at rewriting the article over the next week or so. Ascii27 17:04, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]