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thomas n. burg - on social media and its benefits for us, and sometimes gossip.

May 22nd, 2006

I did a brief study on the usage patterns of our platform in terms of tagging. Some very interesting facts (!?) emerged: see the video below.

The internal narrow folksonomy - author tagging - shows very similar patterns to broad folksonomies in the open. The power-law rules everything. Thus ample space for ideas to make sense out of that.

And it seems as if you can measure the maturity of workgroups (spaces). Very preliminary findings.

Please have a look at the slides

I’ll present tha data at the Social Skills Social Software conference. There is a second platform to contrast these results - not enough time left to visualize.

Thanks go to Janos Bekesi (developer at my former firm) for grabbing the data and to Doris Klepp for helping me with statistics and correlation.

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