A social solution to the problem of information hierarchies

SIMO S. HÄMÄLÄINEN, student, University of Lapland, Finland

HELEN HEINMAA, student, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Many organisations deal with a large amounts of information. Much of the information is internal and stored in a shared filesystem on the intranet. Examples include policy documents, organisational information, contracts and internal documentation.

In traditional file storage, content creators and users organise i..

As Industrial revolution and Information revolution are passed by, we are experiencing the Social Media Revolution. In the Industrial and informational revolution it was the new technology that revolutionized social and economic fields. Right now, the human-like social-wise knowledge has taken over.

Knowledge is what matters when it comes to the modern organization. The company needs to know it’s cababilities to produce value. The concept of information feed is very typical of social media. In ..