SxDSalon: A group blog on social interaction design

RT vs. Retweet

This is a post about "retweeting," a beautifully evolved and delicate little social dance called that Twitter users invented, and Twitter's so-called "Retweet" feature, which stomps on it. In this post, I'll call the original, organically evolved practice "RT" (as it is usually written in tweets), and Twitter's confusingly named mis-feature "Retweet" (with uppercase "R"). Social Relationship An RT comes from somebody I follow. The reason I follow people on Twitter is because I want to know...

Designing for Sociality in Enterprise Search

Will Evans beat me to the punch in getting this post out! Earlier this month, we collaborated on creating a presentation for the Enterprise Search Summit West on “Designing for Sociality in Enterprise Search.” It went over pretty well and was fun to deliver! Here is more info for your enjoyment: This is the description of the presentation: Social search has the potential to improve search practices beyond what is possible with traditional informational retrieval algorithms. Two dif...

Designing for Sociality in Enterprise Search

A few weeks ago, I was able to collaborate with Brynn Evans in creating a presentation for Enterprise Search Summit West. Here is the description of the presentation as well as links to the original on SlideShare. Social search has the potential to improve search practices beyond what is possible with traditional informational retrieval algorithms. Two [...]