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Scholars studying the evolution of cooperation in humans recently have turned their attention to the role of social networks in structuring human interactions. Interacting with others in large populations without structure greatly reduces the likelihood of cooperation, but in a fixed social network cooperation can evolve as a consequence of repeated interactions because of “social viscosity”. It's just human nature, people will share information with groups of people they know they can relate to.

Social publishing frameworks provide the capabilities required to create highly interactive sites that encourage individuals to “engage in conversations” and “join the community”. From a technical perspective, it’s all about developing the resources to manage the connections among content and people, and increasing the value of information flowing through the community. Broad horizon social networks, such as Facebook, with their ease of use, have done a great job of spurring mass adoption of social media, and introducing people to the benefits and power of online social networking.

In particular, a framework for social publishing depends on a combination of a set of essential capabilities in which the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. They are:


 * User-Generated Content - allows members to contribute content and participate using the full range of Web 2.0 features including all kinds of rich media experiences, such as, video clips (with sounds), games, and maps.
 * Social Networking - connects members to the information, people, and activities that are relevant to them.
 * Manages all aspects of the presentation and delivery of the varied content types.
 * Profiles - Members maintain their own profiles, which are customized for the different needs of each community, and they can change dynamically over time.
 * Enterprise Security and Control - ensure that the content for your community is properly organized, protected, and meets your standards for quality.
 * Manages all aspects of the publishing processes with work-flow capabilities to ensure that all aspects of the publishing process can be logged, tracked, monitored, and audited.
 * Ensures the authenticity and reputation so that the content produced and rendered should be what the content creators and editors produced and published.
 * Features an intuitive and consistent set of user experiences for easy administration so that end users with little technical knowledge or skills can be responsible for the day-to-day administration of users, groups, content, categories, access rights and permissions, work-flow definitions, or other activities required to support standard operations of the community.