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- Principles of Social Interaction Design?
- Designing Social for the Enterprise
- Social design of the collaborative economy
- Mirror, surface, window—three modes of the social screen
- Gravity7 to Enterprise UX and social in the workaday world
- The conundrum of corporate social media use
- Enterprise systems of engagement—social designers needed
- Apple, the rise and fall of "aura," and the social brand image
- Big UX, small UX
- Instagram profiles: the social image
- The system that breaks is not the system that repairs
- Beyond the Social Object
- The medium and its messengers: story-telling and social media
- Marketers may talk value, but user experience should not
- Zen, and the art of game mechanics
- All experience is organized
- Anchoring UX in Agile by means of stories
- Gamifying work. Seriously?
- Principles of Social Interaction Design (pdf)
- Big data, social data: which matters more?
- Lean UX and lean startups: is trial and error the best way forward?
- The secret sauce of social
- When should you think about social interaction design?
- Check out the new check in
- Tracking and trackers: user experience that counts
- Social media and marketing doublespeak
- A few thoughts on social media user types
- Zero Moment of Truth, or Zero Moment of Insight?
- Instagram: the object of sharing & the shared object
- Live video chats—if next new thing, what social design issues?
- Enterprise social: it's still about the people
- Games People Play: Transaction Satisfaction
- Games People Play, and Social Games Online
- Social tools, technologies of time
- Actions and activities on social tools are grounded in discourse
- Social objects? Social facts.
- Facebook and the co-creative Self: a new chapter
- Go Gowalla
- Talk, old school style
- Designing social tools around user interests
- Structuration theory and social interaction design
- Listening and learning w social media is beyond brand control
- End of daily deals, or are social deals still ahead?
- Death of the checkin 1.0
- Social media 1.0 coming to an end?
- On designing time for talk, and real time feeds
- SXSW: Social Interaction Design Concepts and Insights
- Can social games get real?
- Attention economics, social media, and effective marketing
- Meta Sociality, or the influence of Klout
- twitter: a sketch for filtering signal from noise
- What I see us asking (on Quora)
- Google+ Topical circles?
- Sharepocalypse, and why social sharing is noisy
- The brands don’t get it
- Google+ Circles: a new design for talk?
- Checking in: brands and social games
- The cynicism of gamification
- Google+, minus growing pains
- Social games: not just competition
- Social interaction models: Facebook, twitter, turntable, EmpireAve, & Google+
- Google+: Of Circles and Followers
- The burden of sharing
- Google+ Circles: Groups, Filters, and Stream Bubbles
- Google+ circles, hard and soft
- Challenges of local social commerce
- Learning about social media from Empire Avenue
- Thoughts on the psychic culture of social objects
- Social games, social actions, and gift economics
- turntable.fm, and the art of listening
- Surplus in the marketplace of communication
- The tweeting Other. Or, see what I'm saying?
- LinkedinZynga IPO implications
- Work in the age of communication
- Harold Garfinkel and social facts. Sociology for design.
- Brands can learn on Empire Avenue
- Empire Avenue and habit-forming social games
- Ambient intimacy, ambient engagement
- Of small and large form social games and gamification
- Theoretical underpinnings of social interaction design
- Whither whrrl (and other social commerce plays)?
- Color — where social value is elsewhere, in time?
- Social logics of mobile social apps
- Designing for dates: when contact needs a helping hand
- Connections: A reflection the development of social tools
- Designing social tools: core user types
- Beyond Usage Lifecycle in designing for social
- A look at the innovation of social tools
- How to write commercial tweets and posts
- Selling the invisible: the art of the expert
- On the importance of social interaction design for social startups
- Attention: This Revolution will NOT be Televised
- I just killed a social game mechanic
- Are social media valuable to society?
- Social media personas 2.0: The Inviter
- The Like as interest and social gesture
- Hey startup, what’s your social interaction model?
- What to measure? Followers or influence? Or neither?
- Beyond user behavior: designing social
- Andrew Keen on TV on Schmidt on privacy online
- Notes on game mechanics in enterprise and social business tools
- Notes on a relational theory of social interaction design
- The strange culture of social technology, and its makers
- Social commerce
- Breaking with the summer break
- The Reality of Social Media
- What comes after likeretweetcheckindiggbookmarkshare?
- Social context, Facebook Likes, activity and action streams
- What’s there to like? Facebook Likes and social object relations
- SxD: Social Objects
- Twitter promotional tweet strategies
- Is Clay Shirky on complexity too simplistic?
- Rethinking thin: social relationships in social media
- Geosocial filter failure
- Eleven tips on how to apply social interaction design thinking
- Social dynamics and agile social design
- From followers and game mechanics to more valuable social functionality
- When social search gets personal: ChatRoulette, Peerpong, Aardvark
- 50M per day, or pushing the envelope at 600 tweets per second
- ChatRoulette, I'm watching you (watching me)
- ChatRoulette, hall of mirrors
- The state of realtime culture, and the future inter-subjective web
- Action streams: a blue sky proposal
- There's Gold in that Heather: my Tummelvision video, and gratitudes
- Social and conversational implications of cross-referenced activity streams
- Google's Aardvark acquisition: Questions for Buzz?
- Google Buzz v twitter: more on micro-commentary
- May I have your buzz, please?
- If twitter is micro-blogging, is Buzz micro-commentary?
- Breaking down the Gbuzz
- On social interaction design and the detective
- The socially-mediated NYTimes: What would interest the reader?
- SXD: The construction of objective relations and operations
- News and speed: are we better informed?
- Algorithmic authority: critical reflections
- On the private/public distinction, publicy, and sociality
- Brief thoughts on discourse networks
- SxD: Primary and Secondary Frames
- Social media in the enterprise: formal v informal sociality
- Broken social (online) scenes
- Life offline, and why I do it
- Lunch for good, food for thought
- Social search and advertising: Google's endgame?
- Realtime streams: now and then
- Brands, and putting twitter word of mouth in context
- Social media, converging streams?
- Social Interaction Design: Ratings
- Twitter, Google Wave, and Online Talk
- Foursquare vs Yelp: Recommendations and Reviews
- Socially-mediated branding: Revangelism?
- Socially-mediated branding: identify yourself
- The sociability spec: documenting social interactiion requirements
- Social Interaction Design: Leaderboard
- Social media: the attention economy explained
- Activity Streams: Realtime and Streamtime
- Sociability: Usability for Social Media
- Social Interaction Design: Structure
- Activity Streams: Content and Flow
- Social Interaction Design simplified
- Social Interaction Design Client Forensic Brief
- Structured Tweeting?
- Social Interaction Design: Beyond Use
- SXSW: Please vote! Social Interaction Design Concepts
- Newspaper culture, authority, social media, and relevance
- Dave Winer's little tweet reader: some thoughts
- Transparency: truth in social media
- Enterprise and Social Media: Ambient Knowledge, Hidden Knowledge
- Social media metaphors: what do we mean to say?
- Researching social media usage: right research, wrong conclusions?
- The designer's influence: social media and the user experience
- A conversation with Thomas Vander Wal
- SIM Scoring: Social Media Influence Metrics are an Art
- No Twitter in Meme-tracking and News Cycle Research
- Reflections on the Techcrunch Realtime Crunchup
- Answer services: satisfying two user experiences
- Digesting public Facebook feeds: implications for brands
- The power of listening: a brief personal meditation
- Twitter: the Self-ish Meme?
- "You're OK. How am I?" Reading through twitter.
- Re-framing the problem: SxD
- If you think twitter is weird, you're not alone
- Twitter etiquette: reading between the lines
- Behavior: hard-wired or soft-aware?
- Reading tweets: it's complicated....
- Users: which is which, and who is who?
- Tweeting with authenticity: genuine or strategic?
- Repentance of a Spymaster: Lessons learned
- Confessions of a Spymaster
- Back on the blog horse
- Slideshow presented at SNCR NewComm Forum 09
- The Inmates Have Requested Asylum
- Social capital on twitter: analytics of flow
- Social media personalities and Personas 2.0
- Opportunities for interaction around Twitter
- Influence on Twitter
- The friendly face of twitter, and the enthusiastic bias
- Adhocnium call in blogtalk radio show thursday
- Twitter applications and extensions: a list
- Twitalyzer, for dwunk tweeting
- Improbability of Communication in Social Media
- Southby drive-by... #SXSW tweets for those #notatSXSW
- Social media's third law: designing for communication
- Twitter's Endgame: Search is Chat?
- The Gift, and the Spirit of the Word
- I Want Candy. Skittles embraces Twitter embraces Skittles
- Who's motivating your users?
- Contingencies in Social Media
- Tell me, please
- Transient conversation networks on twitter
- Attention and inattention on Twitter
- Small talk in Tinychat: from twitter to chat
- Social media's second law: it's a verb, not a noun
- Short post on unstructured vs structured social media
- A short post on discovery vs creation, relating to social media
- Social media's first law: user centric design
- Paradoxes of social media: Twitter, Facebook, and status culture
- Status culture: facebook, twitter, and what they mean
- Social Interaction Design Primer II
- Social Media Personality Types: Slideshow
- Social Media PR Playbook: Thoughts
- TheHornGroup panel on PR and social media: an email
- The Topsy-Turvy World of Social Media
- SNCR and AdCouncil collaboration
- Reflections on Social Media's Next Phase
- Sea Change
- Social media monitoring and packaged care: Pick UPS, Push UPS
- Post Writing: Social Self, Private Self, Post(ing) Self
- Cisco Disco Very Video: Cisco Uses Vlogs.
- What Goes Up One Way Comes Down Another
- All the Commentary That's Fit to Print
- Utilizing Social Media for Marketing: Tips
- Inspiration from Elsewhere: Social Media and Film Theory
- A Social Interaction Design Primer
- Darwin days are here again, or, the Led balloon
- The Now Web: Not Now, or Not Yet?
- Dipping into Dipity -- scaleable timelines
- Social media and the job of PR
- Startup your Social: Enhance Your Social Utility
- News and Feeds: Power Curve to the Long Tail?
- Succumbing to Immediacy
- OF Lifestreaming and Feeds: Who's Talking?
- Swurl: lifestreaming and timelining
- OF Lifestreaming and Feeds: Who's Talking?
- Swurl: lifestreaming and timelining
- Lifestreaming apps and designing time and flow
- Future of social web: system and practices
- Social media: Social Approximity?
- Let's talk about social media marketing
- Aggregators and Sources: People or Content?
- It's all words, but some words are more equal than others
- Radian6 screenshots of twitter influencer topical clouds
- Social Analytics and Understanding the User
- The Not Being here of Twitter, and No Being here of Friendfeed
- Sentimetrix... Sentimentrix... Sentimistaken?
- Kraft cheesy singles -- using social apps for branding
- Influencers, Promoters, Inviters and other social media types
- Climate change and web 2.0
- Mining social media
- Of Military and Men, or Influencers in the mass and social media
- Psychological profiling and forensic analysis -- in social media?
- The three-fold view of the social media user experience
- Hashing through twitter hashtags -- and structured conversation
- Reputation, Conversational Index, Twitter, and Tweeterboard
- Twitter for social marketing? Tweetvolume, Summize, and the Holy Grail
- [Resist] [Submit} ... advertising in facebook dialog boxes?
- Of crowds, power, grass, social theory and social media
- Groundswell Social Technographics quiz, or Some of the Above
- New slideshow on social media user competencies
- Directions for research, theory, and a general update
- Senior Fellow at SNCR this year!
- The degree zero of user intentionality on social media
- Scoble banished for botting Facebook
- New slideshows on social media and social interaction design
- What is Social Interaction Design slides
- Social technology's transparency among teens
- Twitter vs Facebook status feeds
- Change.org: a social change site review
- Social Media: It's all Talk
- Getting into social video
- I can see (myself) for miles and miles and....
- New SxD White Paper: The Social Engine that Drives...
- The User of Social Media: A Second Self?
- The User Experience of Review Writing
- Understanding the Yelp factor and social reviews
- The Opacity of Users in Transparent Technologies
- Here's talking at you, kid... It's all talk on social media
- Towards a reckless rethinking of Social Media
- New Social Software Design White Paper
- Reading Notes: Anthony Giddens and Niklas Luhmann on Mass Media
- Eric Berne's Games People Play and social media
- The deep paradox of the link
- What if mass media went away?
- Webocracy, Mass media, mini media, MySpace, YouTube
- YouTube: videos are signs, watching is social
- Pay Attention to YouTube!
- Marshall McLuhan on YouTube
- War is Peace: On Truth, YouTube, Snipers, and Death
- What does tech do? To find out, turn it off
- You looking at me? Invisibility at Facebook
- Marcamp/France Telecom/Orange trip report
- Alfred Schutz, F2F, Social Software, and Streams of Consciousness
- Folksonomic Value Proposition part 2 Revised
- P2P's Concept of the Social
- People are Estranged
- Of You, Me, Mini-Me, Mass Media, and ... Mini Media
- Philosophical interlude: towards a smooth network of links
- My God I'm Pod
- Folksonomic Value Proposition part 2 orig
- From user to practice-centric design
- Is attention over time not identity?
- I see you seeing me. Youtube.com, iTube.com, Wealltube.com
- Podcasts and Podcasting on my mind
- Barcamp San Francisco
- The Link: it confounds analysis
- Connecting dots: Power Law, Long Tail, Mimetic desire
- Clay Shirky, Christopher Alexander, Harold Garfinkel, Pattern Languages
- The Video in the Age of its Social Reproduction: The Message is the Medium
- Content and its discontents
- OnHollywood, Live, Opening Night
- What's GoingOn? We're GoingOn! You're GoingOn!
- Tags, Tagging, and Folksonomies as social system
- MySpace courts the friendship of advertisers
- Simpsons, Social Network Analysis, and Visible Path
- Hannah Arendt, Jurgen Habermas, public spheres and social software
- GM's user-generated content: Chevy Tahoe Ads
- Social Interaction Design: Social Software papers
- Socially structured content
- Cognitive maps and tags: an full scale map of language?
- Fragmentation of online conversation
- Social operations made virtual organization of social fields
- Human Factors and Affective Affordances
- Skype's role as a presencing system
- Skype, conference chats, and transactional analysis
- MySpace case study on Gravity7
- Blog to mail, or blogmail
- Text messaging and the ritual of the gesture
- Tag collections, aggregation, and mainstreaming
- 43Users and why are the numbers so different?
- Flagging and Tagging: when social software goes anti-social
- Baby Face, or Facetime 2.0
- EmPhatic gadgets
- Careful with that interface, Eugene
- A Mutual Friend : Mobile phones and art by Blast Theory (UK)
- Social interactions scale uniquely
- Civilization and its mis/mal/dis/contents
- Social Software: Sociable, Social, Societal, or which is it?
- From User Practices to Social Practices
- A Case for Social Interaction Design
- Communication technologies force us to explicate the implicit
- Blogger in the Bathroom, or Blogging as Graffiti
- Blogging as public and private
- Speech Act theory applied to Social Software and other talk technnologies
- Social Networks: Color by numbers or connect the dots?
- Time's Arrow: A case for affective temporality?
- Interaction design and subject-object relations
- MIT's Reality Mining project hopes to add data fro...
- "It is the framework which changes with each new t...
- In the case of prisons, abuse, Iraq, and reality T...
- "Thus, as Adam Smith argued in his Theory of the M...
- one of today's email exchanges One reason I thi...
- This from today's NYT: Game companies are not ...
- I had this thought the other day. I don't know if ...
- Sampling It's been said that a characteristic iro...
- Record There's more than just a hint of irony in ...
- this response from Daniel to the list of media que...
- I'm posting the list of questions that have guided...
- Is the phone on the seatback in an airplane a mobi...
- I found a 12 point list about online community tha...
- In transactional analytic terms, the stroke is the...
- Viral marketing attempts to leverage our natural t...
- Alan Cooper writes the following in his company's ...
- The writer Marshall McLuhan, in comparing "city ma...
- The net's ability to conduct the flow of seduction...
Reflections on Social Media
- What I see us asking (on Quora)
- Google+ Topical circles?
- Sharepocalypse, and why social sharing is noisy
- Google+ Circles: a new design for talk?
- The cynicism of gamification
- The burden of sharing
- Thoughts on the psychic culture of social objects
- Surplus in the marketplace of communication
- Work in the age of communication
- Ambient intimacy, ambient engagement
- Connections: A reflection the development of social tools
- The Like as interest and social gesture
- The Reality of Social Media
- What comes after likeretweetcheckindiggbookmarkshare?
- Social context, Facebook Likes, activity and action streams
- What’s there to like? Facebook Likes and social object relations
- Is Clay Shirky on complexity too simplistic?
- Rethinking thin: social relationships in social media
- Geosocial filter failure
- Social dynamics and agile social design
- 50M per day, or pushing the envelope at 600 tweets per second
- ChatRoulette, hall of mirrors
- The state of realtime culture, and the future inter-subjective web
- Action streams: a blue sky proposal
- SXD: The construction of objective relations and operations
- Algorithmic authority: critical reflections
- Realtime streams: now and then
- Activity Streams: Realtime and Streamtime
- Activity Streams: Content and Flow
- Structured Tweeting?
- Enterprise and Social Media: Ambient Knowledge, Hidden Knowledge
- Twitter: the Self-ish Meme?
- "You're OK. How am I?" Reading through twitter.
- Behavior: hard-wired or soft-aware?
- Reading tweets: it's complicated....
- Confessions of a Spymaster
- Transient conversation networks on twitter
- Attention and inattention on Twitter
- A short post on discovery vs creation, relating to social media
- The Topsy-Turvy World of Social Media
- Post Writing: Social Self, Private Self, Post(ing) Self
Social Interaction Design
- Sharepocalypse, and why social sharing is noisy
- Social games: not just competition
- Social interaction models: Facebook, twitter, turntable, EmpireAve, & Google+
- Google+: Of Circles and Followers
- Google+ Circles: Groups, Filters, and Stream Bubbles
- Google+ circles, hard and soft
- Social games, social actions, and gift economics
- turntable.fm, and the art of listening
- The tweeting Other. Or, see what I'm saying?
- Empire Avenue and habit-forming social games
- Of small and large form social games and gamification
- Theoretical underpinnings of social interaction design
- Designing social tools: core user types
- Beyond Usage Lifecycle in designing for social
- A look at the innovation of social tools
- Selling the invisible: the art of the expert
- On the importance of social interaction design for social startups
- I just killed a social game mechanic
- Social media personas 2.0: The Inviter
- Hey startup, what’s your social interaction model?
- Notes on a relational theory of social interaction design
- SxD: Social Objects
- Eleven tips on how to apply social interaction design thinking
- Social dynamics and agile social design
- SXD: The construction of objective relations and operations
- SxD: Primary and Secondary Frames
- Social Interaction Design: Ratings
- Foursquare vs Yelp: Recommendations and Reviews
- The sociability spec: documenting social interactiion requirements
- Social Interaction Design: Leaderboard
- Sociability: Usability for Social Media
- Social Interaction Design simplified
- Social Interaction Design Client Forensic Brief
- Social Interaction Design: Beyond Use
- The designer's influence: social media and the user experience
- Answer services: satisfying two user experiences
- Re-framing the problem: SxD
- Slideshow presented at SNCR NewComm Forum 09
- The Inmates Have Requested Asylum
- Social media personalities and Personas 2.0
- Social media's third law: designing for communication
- Short post on unstructured vs structured social media
- Social Interaction Design Primer II
- Social Media Personality Types: Slideshow
- A Social Interaction Design Primer
Social Media Marketing
- The brands don’t get it
- Checking in: brands and social games
- Challenges of local social commerce
- Learning about social media from Empire Avenue
- Brands can learn on Empire Avenue
- Whither whrrl (and other social commerce plays)?
- How to write commercial tweets and posts
- Attention: This Revolution will NOT be Televised
- News and speed: are we better informed?
- Social media in the enterprise: formal v informal sociality
- Brands, and putting twitter word of mouth in context
- Socially-mediated branding: Revangelism?
- Socially-mediated branding: identify yourself
- Social media: the attention economy explained
- Newspaper culture, authority, social media, and relevance
- Enterprise and Social Media: Ambient Knowledge, Hidden Knowledge
- Social capital on twitter: analytics of flow
- Opportunities for interaction around Twitter
- Influence on Twitter
- Utilizing Social Media for Marketing: Tips
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