Kinsey-Henneman. The average American has 634 ties in their overall network, and technology users have bigger networks. The average American has 634 ties in their overall network, and technology users have bigger networks. Social networking sites (SNS) provide people with the opportunity to friend members of their overall network of family members, coworkers, and other acquaintances. Much has been made of the use of the word “friend” in this context.
Those who are listed as friends on SNS may indeed be friends in the traditional sense, but they can also be old acquaintances (e.g., from high school) or very casual connections between people who have never have met in person. Some worry that as a result of using these services, people may become more isolated and substitute less meaningful relations for real social support. Looking at people’s overall social networks, not just their online ties, the average American has 634 ties in their overall network, and technology users have bigger networks. The approach that we use is called the “scale-up method” [3]. Facebook users have more close connections. Four ways social networking has forever changed the way we work. Every couple of years or so, a new technology revolution springs up, promising to replace stale, overhyped prior revolution that had just passed.This time, we're told, things will be different.
But this time, things really have been different. Social networking is more than a platform or a new mode of computing it represents a new way of connecting, of doing business, of leading nations, of working, of making friends and renewing friendships. Consider where the social revolution has taken us in just a few short years: Economic revitalization and opportunity: Social networking and E2.0 provides a vast new array of tools for seeking out new markets, as well as managing through the tough times.
Companies have means to better leverage the knowledge coursing through their corporate veins to turn around distressed lines of business. Return on investment: A hotly debated topic. (Photo: Connecting corridor at National Gallery of Art, by Joe McKendrick.) In an increasingly complex world. Future - Science & Environment - Does the internet rewire your brain? Being online does change your brain, but so does making a cup of tea. A better question to ask is what parts of the brain are regular internet users using.
This modern age has brought with it a new set of worries. As well as watching our weight and worrying about our souls, we now have to worry about our brain fitness too – if you believe the headlines. Is instant messaging eroding the attention centres of our brains? Are Facebook, Twitter and other social media tools preventing you from forming normal human bonds? Plenty of folk have been quick to capitalise on this neuro-anxiety. Fear not, there is some good news from neuroscience. The truth is that everything you do changes your brain. Brain workout Worrying about the internet is just the latest in a long line of fears society has had about the changes technologies might bring. But is the internet affecting our brains in a different, more extraordinary way?
So practice definitely can change our brains. Get a life. The power of mobility and the strength of collaboration at work. Innovation also passes through work spaces Technology is constantly changing and one of the main consequences of this change is mobility. Therefore, associating new technologies and mobility is thinking about the balance between the worlds of work and our life beyond work. Be able to travel without having to dispense each virtual community, affects people’s movement patterns and has an extraordinary impact on our transport habits or the organization of jobs or even human concentration places.
“Given a choice, people will demand freedom to work, live, and innovate in ways that meet their individual lifestyles, unfettered by place. Meanwhile, pressures to reduce costs and seek new approaches to innovation are causing many private and public organizations to rethink how work gets done.” The ease with which we are moving from place to place without leaving to be connected with our community is not the only strong consequence of new technologies and applications associated with them. Individual.utoronto.ca/markfederman/WhyJohnnyandJaneyCantRead.pdf. Breaking Down Menus Digitally, Dish by Dish - The Digital Campus. By Jennifer Howard New York If you'd dined at the Sherman Square Hotel in New York City on May 31, 1937, you could have refreshed yourself with a sauerkraut-juice cocktail, moved on to cold soup in jelly, tucked into minced capon en crème or lamb's tongue with a side of potato salad, and finished off the meal with California figs in syrup or a nice slice of apple pie.
BROWSE THE FULL ISSUE: News and Commentary BUY A COPY: Digital and Print Editions at the Chronicle Store The Sherman Square no longer exists. The "What's on the Menu? " "It really is a proof of concept for making similar types of collections even more accessible," says Ann Thornton, the Andrew W. "What's on the Menu? " "We really see this as an exciting experimentation with what the library's doing, the kinds of services it provides, how it mobilizes collections, but also with the idea of what a library is," says Ben Vershbow, manager of the NYPL Labs group. Mr. In addition to Mr. "What's on the Menu? " As Ms. MLA Urges Evaluators to 'Give Full Regard' to Digital Work - Wired Campus. The Modern Language Association wants evaluators to get with the digital program. In a revised set of “Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media,” the association urges departments and committees that evaluate academic work in digital media and digital humanities to give it the weight it deserves and to make sure they know how to assess it in the first place.
Candidates for jobs and faculty members up for review should also make sure they understand how they’re going to be assessed, negotiate terms for evaluation, and document their work clearly, the group advises. “Digital media are transforming literary scholarship, teaching, and service, as well as providing new venues for research, communication, and the creation of networked academic communities,” the updated guidelines say. The guidelines lay out specific steps that evaluators and those being evaluated should take. [Image: "Evaluation scale" by Flickr user billsoPHOTO. Return to Top. Loose Hierarchies, Strong Networks. When I wrote that the only knowledge that can be managed is our own, I wanted to highlight that command & control methods do not work well in this network era that is replacing the industrial/information era.
In our increasingly complex work environments, we should should take the advice of Snowden & Kurtz who recommend “loose hierarchies & strong networks” as shown in this image by Verna Allee. While a certain amount of hierarchy may be necessary to get work done, networks naturally route around hierarchy. Networks enable work to be done collaboratively, especially when that work is complex and there are no simple answers, best practices or case studies to fall back on.
Real business value today is in complex and creative work. Just imagine if the idea that the only knowledge we can manage is our own informed our organizations and our approach to learning and development? What would education look like? What would training look like? What would knowledge management look like? Three Principles for Net Work. The nature of work is changing in our increasingly networked economy.
What was considered good, dependable work in the 20th century is now getting automated or outsourced. Automated tellers have replaced thousands of bank clerks but even more advanced jobs are getting automated as we connect the world with computers. The New York Times reported in March of 2011 that armies of expensive lawyers, who once did “discovery” work have been replaced by software programs that do the work at a fraction of the cost. The same applies to computer chip designers, loan officers and tax accountants. The main driver behind this shift is the interconnectivity of the Internet.
For knowledge workers, there is diminishing value in standardized work, as it will be either automated or outsourced over time. But longer term value today resides in non-standardized work that requires creativity, imagination and innovation. This is why, in the network era, work is learning and learning is the work. What is the (Next) Message? 2011 eXtension Virtual Conference. Disruptive innovation. Sustaining innovations are typically innovations in technology, whereas disruptive innovations cause changes to markets. For example, the automobile was a revolutionary technological innovation, but it was not a disruptive innovation, because early automobiles were expensive luxury items that did not disrupt the market for horse-drawn vehicles.
The market for transportation essentially remained intact until the debut of the lower priced Ford Model T in 1908. The mass-produced automobile was a disruptive innovation, because it changed the transportation market. The automobile, by itself, was not. The current theoretical understanding of disruptive innovation is different from what might be expected by default, an idea that Clayton M.
The work of Christensen and others during the 2000s has addressed the question of what firms can do to avoid displacement brought on by technological disruption. History and usage of the term[edit] The term disruptive technologies was coined by Clayton M.