TweetClouds - Social Modelling in the Enterprise
The concept of tag clouds is very powerful. I often refer to the tag cloud together with tagging folksonomy as a starting point in categorizing and displaying information in an enterprise. Tagging folksonomy is a powerful idea that allows categorization or organization of information based on the everyday user’s perspective. The social element adds improved relevance, as opposed to information being categorized by a elite group of taxonomist in a company. Tag cloud demonstrates a “at a high level” view, the summary/relevance of the information in an information ecosystem.
TweetCloud took this one step ahead today. By studying and analyzing information exchange through the popular microblogging service, Twitter, TweetCloud builds you a cloud containing all the words that you have used in exchanging tweets with your fellow Twitters. Below is a screenshot of my TweetCloud :-
How is this useful? It shows you your most frequently used word in tweet exchanges with your peers, hence capturing and potentially exposing your characteristics/personality in these tweets. This forms a social dimension around you to your peers. In another word, it reveals even more about you in the cloud!!!!
In the above, as you can see, blog seems to be a word I have used most often when exchanging twit with my fellow twitters. Some of the words above seems to reveal that I have been twittering a lot about techie stuff, and hence perhaps reveal that I am a techie g33k!!!! There are also a few references made to some fellow twitters (and hence, exposing my relationship/weak ties within the social network implicitly).
The same idea, leveraged in an enterprise, not only help people connect, but also help people identify themselves.
very interesting idea indeed Michael. I agree with you that it certainly adds another dimension to represent the social interaction you would have.
TweetCloud reminds me of an episode in Futurama where Bender the Robot was installed with a bomb that will trigger, based on his most frequently used word !!! (-Ass)
@michael,
hmmm… I wonder what word would it be for me…SOA;-)
Yes the word ‘SOA’ will trigger a bomb at your infrastructure, lol