Community Equity
I wanted to make you aware of the Innovation Blog in which host Hal Stern interviews Peter Reiser on the concept of Community Equity. You can access the conversation at Blogtalkradio where you also find other interesting conversations on the social media topic or download the podcast via iTunes.
The basic idea of “Community Equity” is to measure contribution and participation of individuals in a community. I believe this is extremely HR relevant as from the Human Resources standpoint it can help putting the right people to the right projects or into the right jobs (skill management!), motivate people to get the best out of them, to collaborate and learn from the community and finally most importantly reward them! There is much more detail to this that Peter explains on his blog like the Tag Equity which shows the real value of a tag not just how much it has been used by relating all the different aspects of contribution to a specific tag.
I really think these features can help a lot building communities and systematically using knowledge and skills in an enterprise context. As there is a lot of mathematical algorithms and complexity to this it has been patented but is available opensource.
Very interesting will be how the usage of social equity can evolve by mashing it up with semantic web technologies. We would then talk about concept equity. Some of our guys are contributing to the EU KIWI project subtitled "Collaborative Knowledge Management, powered by the Semantic Web”.
As a side note Nielsen Norman Group published an interesting report on the usage of Social Software on Intranets in which Sun participated as one of 14 companies which were interviewed. You find a summary here.
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04:40PM Sep 29, 2009
by Volker Seubert in Human Resources |
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