Comments on: Gotta love those visualisations

By: Brendan

Brendan — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:11:31 +0000

@Eddie You’re right, of course – it’s down to what’s the best way to represent the data. My comment about “I’m very visual” was decidedly tongue-in-cheek.

@KerryMG No link! Would love to see more.

The more I think about it the more I’d love to see a hype cycle for social media and look! There’s one on the Gartner website. But I need to buy it. Bleh.

Still, not to worry, someone else has published it. And there’s a slide of it here, from Slideshare. A bit naughty but there you go.

Gartner publishes a very brief summary as:

On the Rise

Alumni Community Management
Enterprise Internet Reputation Management
HCM and Social Software
Social Networks for Sales
Social Learning Platform
Social Mining and Social Intelligence
Social Data Portability
Activity Streams
Crowdsourcing
Idea Marketplaces
Private Virtual Worlds
Ubiquitous Collaboration
Community Marketing
Social Networks: Customer Service
Social Software Suites

At the Peak

Microblogging
Unified Communications and Collaboration
Mobile Social Networks
Social Search
Expertise Location and Management
Prediction Markets
Social Computing Platforms

Sliding Into the Trough

Social Bookmarking
Open-Source Social Software
Public Virtual Worlds
Immersive Learning Environments
Folksonomies/Social Tagging
Corporate Blogging
Idea Management
RSS in the Enterprise
Social Network Analysis
Wikis

Climbing the Slope

Blogs
Entering the Plateau
Presence
Hype Cycle Phases, Benefit Ratings and Maturity Levels

By: kerrymg

kerrymg — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:34:54 +0000

Visuals can indeed be fun, and am glad that somone else shares my love of the Gartner Hype curve, I managed to find a few older versions and its interesting to see what has followed time predictions, what’s slipped and what’s disappeared altogether – have a peek here to see what I mean

By: Eddie

Eddie — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:23:41 +0000

Although posting as someone who probably does have the attention span of a child and difficulty in reading, I’m glad I’m not alone in liking a visual route in explaining things. Something that I always enjoy when presenting visuals is spotting which people in the room repsond to different types of visual – it can immediately mapped to personality type. I guess what I’m saying is that if there legislation for everybody to submit a Myers Briggs test and you could access everyones information via a huge repository, you could always pick the right graphic to excite and engage your audience. Actually, reading that back, all I’m saying is that understanding your audience is paramount when using images which is pretty obvious and if I hadn’t typed so much. I wouldn’t post this. What the hell – I like the idea of one central resource to check individual personality types so will leave it.