Continuous Professional Development (CPD) and Social Media – By Claudia Megele. Social work operates within a knowledge economy and one in which its practitioners are expected to take responsibility for their own training and development. But, even in this age of social media-borne knowledge, the profession seems to lack the cultural orientation and fundamental awareness and expertise in knowledge transfer and knowledge management. It is vital, therefore, that continuing professional development (CPD) and post-qualifying proposals include provision for knowledge transfer and knowledge management mechanisms, expertise and technologies and their use and application in social work.
Use of social media can be key but how they are used is even more important. Practically everyone uses internet search engines; the verb to Google has even found its way into our dictionaries, so routine is the practice. Social workers must embrace what is clearly more than a trend. There are many reasons why social work should have a better engagement in social media. Like this: Capacity building for mobile learning - IRISS / SSSC workshops. (Saving...)
Charities' use of the internet. There are many organisations and publications that aim to support third sector organisations to use the internet in working toward their charitable objectives. These resources build upon arguments about developing sustainable business practices within a shrinking funding landscape; increasing organisational reach and demonstrating impact in imaginative and powerful ways, or improving and extending the way in which charities can communicate with donors, beneficiaries and other stakeholders - each of these arguments is well placed and there is evidence to demonstrate successful use of digital technologies to achieve these objectives. This review places these opportunities within a wider context of how charities can begin to develop new practices that use internet-based technologies. Twitter and the law: 10 legal risks in tweeting from or to the UK. Number ten: defamatory tweets Defamation law protects a person's reputation.
In England, the law of libel makes it an offence to communicate defamatory remarks where that communication takes some form of permanence (and in Scotland the general law of defamation has the same effect). At least one UK court has given the impression that communications via Twitter have a form of permanence. Defences for truth, honest opinion and providing a public service may apply. However, a claim in libel could result in civil proceedings and claims for damages and costs. The test: If a tweet lowers a person's standing 'in the estimation of right-thinking members of society' it will breach the law of libel. This may occur where a tweet causes a person to be exposed to 'hatred, ridicule, or contempt', encourages exclusion of that person from society or imputes a lack of professional skill or efficiency.
Number nine: harassing tweets Number eight: malicious tweets Number seven: menacing tweets Conclusion. Social Media Tools for Business – Functional Categorization. I recently went through an exercise with a team of digital media colleagues to describe social media tools a professional may encounter on the job. This is a part of a broader project to define what skills workers need to stay competitive in the digitally enabled workplace. We categorized them based on what the tool is used for because with any social media effort, you first have to define goals, map out which activities will help you achieve those goals and select tools accordingly.
We came up with 14 categories coupled with examples of some of the most widely used tools in each category. Many tools cross over multiple categories so we did our best to slot it into its ‘main’ function. We know social technologies are advancing rapidly along with new business applications. At this point in time, what do you think of our list? What would you add? Crowdfunding site pays authors to release DRM-free e-books. E-books may have opened up a whole new medium for enjoying the world’s literature, but the DRM – digital rights management – technologies they’re often coupled with have also imposed new restrictions on the way that literature is shared. Enter Unglue.it, a new site from New Jersey-based Gluejar that uses crowdfunding to pay authors to “free” their work as e-books published under a Creative Commons license. It’s up to rights holders to start an Unglue.it campaign for an already-published book they own the rights to, including setting the amount required and a deadline by which time that needs to happen.
Book lovers, meanwhile, can visit Unglue.it to browse through the site’s active book campaigns; if they don’t see one for a book they care about, they can add a title to the Unglue.it wishlist. Either way, just as on Kickstarter and other crowdfunding sites, participants can pledge toward a campaign’s goal amount, and they pay only if the target funding goal is achieved.
Young people need guidance to cope with the threats posed by social media | Society. This week marks the first anniversary of the summer riots, where mobile devices played such an important part in connecting rioters with each other and were used to capture much of the carnage and brutality. Of course, the technology didn't cause the riots, but as the police found out, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) helped crowds gather at remarkable speed and to circumvent police lines. A year is a long time in terms of technology. New mobile handsets and apps become integrated into our lives at astonishing speed.
Over the last 12 months I've been working with young people excluded from mainstream schools who are taught instead in pupil referral units (PRUs). The project we've been working on is called Munch, Poke, Ping, which I have written about previously in these pages, and has looked at how these young learners are engaging with social media. Over the year, many of the young people I worked with wanted to talk about the events of last summer. The social economy: Unlocking value and productivity through social technologies | McKinsey Global Institute | Technology & Innovation. In a few short years, social technologies have given social interactions the speed and scale of the Internet.
Whether discussing consumer products or organizing political movements, people around the world constantly use social-media platforms to seek and share information. Companies use them to reach consumers in new ways too; by tapping into these conversations, organizations can generate richer insights and create precisely targeted messages and offers. While 72 percent of companies use social technologies in some way, very few are anywhere near to achieving the full potential benefit. In fact, the most powerful applications of social technologies in the global economy are largely untapped. Companies will go on developing ways to reach consumers through social technologies and gathering insights for product development, marketing, and customer service.
Exhibit Enlarge Two-thirds of this potential value lies in improving collaboration and communication within and across enterprises. Home | simply communicate.