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Title:

Repeating The Past - Lessons For Social Media

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Organizer:
Shannon Clark, MeshForum
Description:
A look at design patterns of social interaction which have repeated over time - starting long before the Internet, thru the evolution of the web and to examples in the present day
Questions
Answered:
  1. Are there patterns from the past which offer ideas for 2010 and beyond?
  2. Are current social media and applications truly new?
  3. What was strn & why does it matter?
  4. How did we get by before Twitter, Facebook, Google Wave etc?
  5. Are there design patterns which are independent of technology?
  6. What preceeded Second Life & World of Warcraft?
  7. Where did ARG's emerge from?
  8. How does modern large scale change patterns from the past which were of smaller scale?
  9. Does history matter?
  10. Why do digital archives matter?
Level:
Intermediate
Category:
ARGs, Business / Entrepreneurial / Monetization, Design Thinking, History of Technology, Social Networking
Type:
Solo
Event:
Interactive 2010
Dave Gray
on 17/8/09
Looks like a great topic!
Sally Church
on 17/8/09
What can history tell us about future patterns is an interesting topic.
Shannon Clark
on 17/8/09
A bit more about my background - I'm a historian by training, an entrepreneur, consultant & adviser to many startups & a writer/blogger covering startups & new technology for many major blogs. I've been online, running my own servers on the Internet since 1991. I learned programming on a TRS-80, our first home computer was an Osbourne, and I'm the 3rd generation of my family to write software - having learned programming from my mom who has written software since the late 1960's. In short, I've grown up around technology and have generations of technology history in my own family.

This talk will focus on repeating patterns of social interaction & technology, looking both at patterns & technologies which have scaled up and remain present today as well as looking at patterns & technology from the past which have not (yet) been reimagined for the modern era.

While presented as a talk, my intention will be to allow lots of time for conversation & interaction.
Dave Gray
on 17/8/09
The more interaction the better, Shannon. Give us some history but leave some space for Q&A.
Sean Savage
on 19/8/09
This sounds intriguing. We definitely need more historical perspectives at SXSW. Looking farther into the past helps us see beyond certain frames of the late 20th Century, which were very different from what came before and are now dissolving. You've got my vote.
Sean Savage
on 19/8/09
PS- My undergrad was in History from UT Austin! So I will definitely check this one out if it makes it.
Christian Crumlish
on 30/8/09
This sounds great Shannon. I'm voting it up. I'd love to get your take on the patterns in http://designingsocialinterfaces.com/patterns.wiki - are they relevant to this? do you see congruencies?
Shannon Clark
on 30/8/09
Christian,

Indeed they seem relevant - I need to dig into the wiki further (and am very much looking forward to the book when it is out). My immediate take in skimming over it is that as I note in my talk, there are important patterns of social engagement which pre-date the Internet (in many cases) and/or are from the very early Internet which offer a great deal of useful insight & patterns that can help shape future Social sites/services/applications. For example, I recently blogged about how the Boy Scouts offer lessons for Social Media today - http://bit.ly/3F4ZXX
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on 21/11/09
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