You’ll have to listen to the podcast that Matt Moore (Innotecture, Engineers Without Fears), Doug Cornelius (KM Space, Goodwin Procter) and Stewart Mader (wikipatterns) recorded last week to find out! I haven't yet listened to it so really interested in the answer. (Maybe Stewart will leave a comment with a summary of the answers ...)
A couple of teasers in the play by play that will make me definitely go and listen to the entire podcast with ear towards reflecting on any insights about working wikily:
- Training as a barrier to adoption - wikis are simple
- Wikis as a natural solution for unstructured information
- Giving and taking
- The steady curve rather than the tidal wave
And definitely as a great addition to my Cute Dog Theory personal learning space. (Hat tip to Reed Stockman who shared with NpTech Room on FriendFeed for the link.)
Anyone listen to the podcast and know the answer? Anyone who hasn't listened to the podcast and want to take a guess at the answer?
"If only we humans could learn to smell better."
The peed-upon tree as the ultimate Facebook for dogs...it's very apt.
Posted by: Martha Garvey | July 31, 2008 at 02:49 PM
Hi Beth!
The short answer is that dogs have been doing this for quite a long time, and have a pretty brilliant system for communicating who they are and where they've been. I see it in action every morning when I walk my dog, and he has a specific set of plants, posts, and a fire hydrant (of course!) where he has to...er...mark his location.
I've been amused by all the recent buzz around "location-based social networks", especially with the launch of the iPhone 3G and third party apps. People have been speaking as if this is such a new phenomenon, but I think that dogs everywhere must really be amused by how far ahead of humans they are on this!
Cheers,
Stewart
Posted by: Stewart Mader | August 01, 2008 at 10:17 AM
what a great metaphor for LBSN! I'm going to listen to it now, thanks!
Posted by: Jayne | August 01, 2008 at 12:14 PM