Social Software: What It Is And How It Impacts Individuals And Organizations – A Report By Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Part I)

Social software is whatever software or online network that enables users to interact and share knowledge in a social dimension, emphasizing the human potential instead of the technology that makes the exchange possible. Photo credit: Mikael Damkier Social software is everywhere: blogs, instant messengers, wikis, collaborative editing tools are the most representative expressions of this concept. The role of these technologies has become more and more important in today's world and keeps on reshaping the way in which collaboration happens on and outside the Internet. In a recently published video-interview with Teemu Arina, the young Finnish researcher pointed out the enormous potential of social software when it is adopted in the informal learning process and also within the new generation …