2008-03-02: SOA for connecting tribes?

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Tribalism: The possession of a strong cultural or ethnic identity that separates oneself as a member of one group from the members of another. While tribal society no longer strictly exists in the western world, tribalism, is arguably undiminished. People have postulated that the human brain is hard-wired towards tribalism due to its evolutionary advantages. See Tribalism and evolution below.

Contents 1 Building bridges across tribes (not just disciplines) 1.1 Benefits of SOA 1.2 The process - curation... 2 Related links

[edit] Building bridges across tribes (not just disciplines)

• Problem: To get a 'job done', we need many participants, belonging to different domains/tribes. We don't share the same practice but need to connect diverse practitioners that make up the value chain. The Community of Practice needs to connect different 'tribes', not just helping our own tribe. Need a better word for such a diverse community of practice?

• Problem: Jon Udell: I have met the enemy and it is Tribalism. We need to build bridges within the technical world, between the Microsoft tribe and the open source tribe. We also need to build bridges between the geek tribe as a whole and the rest of the world, because when you strip away the Linux and Vista T-Shirts we geeks share much more DNA with one another than with the vast majority born without the hacking chromosome. We also need to build bridges between the civilian tribe and the military tribe. I’ve now had the rare opportunity to see that those bridges are in the process of being built, and I’ll do whatever I can to keep that momentum going. Meanwhile, here’s my takeway. Tribalism is an aspect of human nature, so it must once have served a purpose, but it no longer does. It’s a piece of evolutionary baggage that we can no longer afford to carry around. I don’t know if we can let go of it, but we had better at least try.
• Brian Livingston: "trade is a great way to cement those bridges. “They” clearly want what “You” have. What can they trade in return? Maybe they can shed some light on dealing with unevenly distributed futures. Or how C&C failed them and why they think that “transformation” is necessary. What else does the military have to trade?"

• Tribalism: The possession of a strong cultural or ethnic identity that separates oneself as a member of one group from the members of another. While tribal society no longer strictly exists in the western world, tribalism, is arguably undiminished. People have postulated that the human brain is hard-wired towards tribalism due to its evolutionary advantages. See Tribalism and evolution].

• Malcolm Gladwell expanded on this conclusion sociologically in his book, The Tipping Point. According to these studies, then, "tribalism" is in some sense an inescapable fact of human neurology, simply because the human brain is not adapted to working with large populations. Beyond 150, the human brain must resort to some combination of hierarchical schemes, stereotypes, and other simplified models in order to understand so many people.

• SOA for connecting tribes?
  • Define the services of each tribe
  • Establish interfaces to/from tribes
  • Make loosely coupled 'workflow' arrangements (workspaces)

• Differences in SOA between machines and peoples?
  • Differences of the services of each tribe and machines
  • Differences of interfaces to/from tribes and machines (data sheets connecting data provoders, curric dev, educators))
  • Differences between make loosely coupled 'workflow' arrangements (workspaces)

- information passes back and forth not just data passing in 1-d - Interfaces?

[edit] Benefits of SOA

• Lowers resistance to entry; no need to solve the entire problem by yourself; have a piece, add it to the pool
• User- driven

[edit] The process - curation...

• Curation - in social networking sharing of content needs curation -- see Jon Udell use and Connotea .. use of curation

[edit] Related links

Wenger outlines CoP and how it is applied. Asserts that a CoP has three crucial characteristics: a domain, a community and a shared practice. http://technologyforcommunities.com/index.php/2005-12-23/tracking-our-research-bookmarks

• Delicious/rhusar/socialsoftware

  1. Social information management
     Groupware, social software, the semantic web, the giant global graph, it’s all the same to me in one fundamental way. When we push information into shared spaces, data finds data, and people find people, and all sorts of magic happens.
  2. How to Save the World through Virtual Collaboration
     There are three levels of collaboration based on duration of contact:

   * Conversations: Where you're in contact just once, or a few times, discussing a particular subject or group of subjects.
   * Projects: Where you're in contact as often as necessary to complete a project.

* Alliances: Where you're in contact in multiple conversations and on multiple projects, working together for an indefinite period of time.

Discovering versus teaching principles of social information management « Jon Udell

The Foundation for P2P Alternatives - P2P Foundation
Clearinghouse of open participatory p2p and commons-oriented activities

HRheingold: Technologies of Cooperation
A Cluster of Cooperation-amplifying technologies present new opportunities: Self-Organizing Mesh Networks; Community Computing Grids; Peer Production Networks; Social Mobile Computing; Group-Forming Networks; Social Software; Social Accounting; Knowledge

OpenAcademic.org - blending Moodle, Drupal, Mediawiki, Elgg - D'Arcy Norman dot net

How To Use Del.icio.us To Take Over the World Printer-Friendly (SocialComputingMagazine.com)

How To Use Social Bookmarking To Take Over the World Printer-Friendly (SocialComputingMagazine.com)

http://www.slideshare.net/slgavin/meet-charlie-what-is-enterprise20

http://web2.socialcomputingmagazine.com/

» A checkpoint on Web 2.0 in the enterprise | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com

celebrating life in keene, nh

Tagging is declarative programming for everybody « Jon Udell

elearnspace. Connectivism: Learning as Network-Creation
Learning as a connection-forming (network-creation) process. Two kinds of knowledge: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it. JustInTime knowledge

Semantic web as social enjoyment « Jon Udell
Freebase is like Wikipedia in the sense that it’s an open data project. But where Wikipedia is a database of unstructured articles, Freebase is a database of categorized and related items. You can use it to add or edit items and, more ambitiously, to cr

   * Conversations: Where you're in contact just once, or a few times, discussing a particular subject or group of subjects.
   * Projects: Where you're in contact as often as necessary to complete a project.