Open Work: Using Social Software To Make Our Work Visible Again - Dion Hinchcliffe's Ne... - 1 views
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One of the interesting side effects of the pervasiveness of technology today is that work in general is becoming so digital that it sometimes completely disappears from sight.
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This is one of the central aspects of social media that has made it so prevalent in recent years and is the reason most of the Web today is being peer produced in such a manner.
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This has led to a small but growing movement to make the workplace take on this issue, with the premise that traditional, pre-digital work processes tended to have more people directly in the loop, reviewing, editing, overseeing, and so on. Now too often, work takes place in digital silos that greatly reduce the human involvement, fails to capture much of the knowledge at all (something I call knowledge evaporation), and leaves little behind to learn from, build upon, or otherwise reuse. This is because older digital tools aren't nearly as focused on discovery, collaboration, or network effects.
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Consists of the ways in which works are being flooded out into the world, while happening with the intention of people seeing them, but because of the ways in which technology has grown, the open work quality is available in means of using new media...
