Deploying Social Software in Universities: Go Broad then Deep

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These principles hold true for pretty much all social software, not just universities.

Absolutely. Us building social software into universities are Johnny-come-latelies when it comes to implementing social software. The enterprise and especially consumer space is far far ahead. So my post was an attempt to pull some wisdom from there and apply it to education.

Heh, I actually think the enterprise has much in common with universities/government tools. Because it's internal, it can hide its cobwebs from the public and get away with being quite delayed.

True. But because there's far more companies and far more diversity in the enterprise than in universities -- the enterprise social software state-of-the-art is far more advanced than what exists in universities.

There's enough companies willing to experiment with using social software that there's some very large + sophisticated installs of social software. In universities. . . there's only a handful and not yet particularly impressive.

But I'd grant your point that the average university and average enterprise/government are both equally backwards when it comes to using social software.

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