Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | How the web will link us all:

Nice short article in the Guardian introducing social software. Also gets the point around communities establishing their own rules and hierarchies - which is why social software has so much to offer to the development of communities of practice.

"The communities that emerge from social software create their own norms, hierarchies and rules. They reflect what we know offline and connect people online. Importantly, social software encourages collaboration. It is the social in the software which will bring communities together, building upon the success of its technological predecessors and enhancing, rather than replacing, human interaction."

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