This page is about how we can get people to use SocialSoftware. In more detail, how do we:
- help people use social software
- help build online super-organization or protocols
- help people adapt to online organization
- show particular people how they can use social software in their particular, individual circumstances
See also MassUseOfWiki.
Five issues to address
The problems of adopting social software (briefly put) - what needs to be solved about social software to make people use it:
- What use for people? (see WhatCanSocialSoftwareDo)
- Who is the target? (see WhoCanUseSocialSoftware)
- How to get people to spread the word?
- Critical mass
- Make SocialSoftware easier to use
Arguments that people make against SocialSoftware
- "Internet is just porn and spam."
- "self-serving pricks"
- "I don't want to be a loser in a chat room."
- "I am simply not interested" (what wiki-shmiki?)
Misc comments
- How do people get wiki experience? Example: People come to wikipedia, learn to fix typos, enjoy it, then start communicating, then open their own wikis.
- Wikipedia currently has the most cohesive culture
- people use their personal wikis (NoteStudio?, etc.), people get into this way of organising content, then they naturally want to apply this online
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