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6 Use Cases for Enterprise Micro-Blogging

March 19, 2012Culture HR hr 2.0 Human Resources leadership managing micro-blogging reciprocity social flowNo comments

As I’ve said before, micro-blogging inside an organization could be coined the ‘liquid knowledge network‘. There is so much to like about it. The following 6 use cases are intended for nascent users who might not fully appreciate the myriad benefits to micro-blogging inside an organization. 1) I’ve got a question When an employee is tapped into the micro-blogging platform, he or she now has access to the collective intelligence of the entire organization in ways email, phones and meetings will never reach. Ask a question on the micro-blogging platform and the spirit of human collaboration will surface with an answer more readily than if trying to find the ‘right person’ to answer the question in more traditional ways. 2) I’ve got something to share Putting paper notices

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Social Media is not Social Learning

By Dan Pontefract

February 22, 2012social social flow social learning social media social networking4 Comments

There, I said it. Social media is not social learning. Let’s start our analysis with a few definitions first. Brian Solis took a crack at defining social media as follows: <the> democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers. It is the shift from a broadcast mechanism, one-to-many, to a many-to-many model, rooted in conversations between authors, people, and peers. Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define social media as: <a> group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content. Marcia Conner and Tony Bingham, in The New Social Learning, define social learning as: <the> result in people becoming more informed, gaining a wider perspective, and being able

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Is George Siemens Right? Social Media is like Letters to the Editor

By Dan Pontefract

September 11, 2011social social flow social learning social media social networking7 Comments

While I was enjoying a separation from the external world of social media this past summer, George Siemens of Athasbasca University, authored a very stirring if not controversial post entitled “Losing interest in social media: there is no there there“. After finally dusting off my mental cobwebs and getting around to reading articles, research and blog posts that I missed over the summer, George’s post was, by far, the one that got me thinking the most. At over 80 comments strong, (mostly professional, some venomous) it seems to have ignited a rather distinctive debate. Is social media simply used to emote, distribute, vent and network or is it also used to enhance the knowledge base and thus to further the cognitive depth of society? Is it substantive?

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