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Reaching for the edge - The Xpragmatic View

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Reaching for the edge - The Xpragmatic View
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The Xpragmatic View #129

October 25, 2009

by Marc Buyens ( @mbuyens ), Xpragma

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Real solutions and progress emerge when we are able to unify apparently conflicting views on the same reality. Do emergent social software platforms (ESSPs) provide a context for this to happen?

A couple of days ago, Andrew McAfee wrote a new post, Colonizing the Outer Rings , where he showed a diagram that represented the relative amounts of different types of ties for a prototypical knowledge worker . The picture below is a somewhat modified version of his diagram.

As the rings suggest, the strong ties group is rather small, whereas the greatest potential for new connections resides in the outer rings. Therefore, McAfee's conclusion was that emergent social software platforms (ESSPs) could create the greatest value by allowing individuals to ...

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