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Online Business Networking for Business Management Professionals
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Social Network Guide - A List of Social Networks
Social Networks can be a great home on the web, can help you connect with people or reconnect with long-lost friends, and can even help your career by making business contacts. Social networks range from friends-based networks like Facebook and MySpace to music and movie networks like Flixster and Last.FM to business social networks like LinkedIn and XING. What is a social network?THE annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, currently in progress, is famous for making connections among the global great and good. But when the delegates go home again, getting even a few of them together in a room becomes difficult. To allow the leaders to keep talking, the forum’s organisers last year launched a pilot version of a secure online service where members can post mini-biographies and other information, and create links with other users to form collaborative working groups. Dubbed the World Electronic Community, or WELCOM, the forum’s exclusive online network has only about 5,000 members. But if any service deserves such a grand title it is surely Facebook, which celebrates its sixth birthday next month and is now the second most popular site on the internet after Google. The globe’s largest online social network boasts over 350m users—which, were it a nation, would make Facebook the world’s third most populous after China and India.
A special report on social networking: A world of connections |
Social Media In Learning
Photo taken by Jay Cross, 5 November 2010 The Internet Time Alliance is running two major Workshops next week, one in Maastricht in the Netherlands, and one in London . As part of the introduction to the day, each of the 5 of us, is going to explain how, from very different backgrounds we have arrived at the same place in our belief that it is all about working smarter. Harold has written about his journey from ADDIE through HPT and Social Learning here: Getting to working smarter . Below I describe my journey from E-Learning to Social Business and what has influenced me along the way. (BTW this is a longer version than I will be providing at the workshops, but since I frequently get asked about my background and what I have done, I thought I would add a little colour as this might be of interest or use to some.)
Last week, I presented a premise at the Enterprise 2.0 conference that because the costs of technology and human capital have flipped (relatively speaking), people are now the weakest link in organizational value chains. What that means is that those organizations that can most effectively optimize human performance will be those that win because their weakest link is stronger than that of their competitors. Belows are my slides and you can see the recording here .
The Social Organization
Business social networks can provide the cornerstone to recruiting efforts for a company and can be a great asset to the hungry professional hoping to leverage their business contacts in order to improve their job. Focused on business, these social networks provides the tools needed to reach out and make business connections, find new jobs, or find specialized job seekers. Whether you are looking for a promotion or looking for new opportunities, social business networking can be just the thing to advance your career. Business social networks are also a boon to recruiters looking to fill urgent vacancies. CompanyLoop is a business social network aimed at workers in the same company.
Social Business Networking - A List of Business Social Networks
What is Social Networking? - Social Networking Explained
Social Networking has become very popular during the past few years, but it can still be very difficult to understand for someone new to social networking. The open-ended nature of social networks add to this. Once signed onto a social network, having answered a few basic profile questions, it is easy to sit back and wonder what you are supposed to do next. The easiest way to understand social networking is to think of it like high school. You had friends in school, and you knew quite a few people even if you weren't friends with all of them, but it's likely that you didn't know everyone. If you ever moved to a new school -- or if you can imagine moving to a new school -- you start out with no friends.
Directory of E-Learning Tools: Social networks
DIRECTORY OF LEARNING TOOLS 2011 Social networks and collaboration spaces These social media platforms include public social networks as well as tools to create private collaborative, social spaces for groups or communities, as well as enterprise collaboration systems (with multiple group sites), NOW includes Micro-sharing tools. NOTE: Formal social learning management systems appear here . Public social networks and collaboration platforms | Group and team collaboration tools | Community and enterprise platformsSAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ — blueKiwi, the global conversation company, today announced the availability of a free version of the blueKiwi Social Business Platform. Designed for marketers, community managers and innovation teams, the new, free version delivers all of the social media tools necessary to create vibrant online communities with external audiences. Now companies can deliver communities for customers, partners and prospects directly from their website. The easy-to-use interface makes it easier for any community manager to engage with members and bring the most important conversations inside the organization for analysis. With blueKiwi, companies can leverage the conversations from their user groups, channel programs and developer communities in order to increase brand recognition and drive business. In addition, blueKiwi has also launched the Fruitful Conversations Community.
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What is Hubze? Business Site for Personal Branding and Social Me
People often ask me to have a look at brand new social networking sites . I typically decline, as I prefer to invest my time checking out social sites that have already gained acceptance. However, this week, when my blogging friend John from EZGreatLife.com sent me to Hubze , a social media site that might help me brand myself and tie together Twitter , Facebook , LinkedIn and other social networking sites, I decided to investigate. Accounting for my motivation was an expectation that the aggregation of social websites will be a major focus of 2010, as enabling technologies like semantic web come to the forefront.
Ages of social network users reviews how the various social networks (Bebo, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc) break down in terms of age categories. Of the 19 services covered, the 35-44 age group is tops in 11. While this fits into the “interesting” category. I’d like to see better data on the online activities of different age groups (Pew did a study of internet activities in general, not confined to social networks), which age groups show the fastest growth in participation, how online habits differ between novice and experienced users of the service, and perspectives of privacy/security by different age groups.
Ages: Social Networks
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A month or so ago, Micah Sifry offered me a chance to respond to Andrew Keen, author of the forthcoming Cult of the Amateur , at a panel at last week’s Personal Democracy Forum (PdF). The book is a polemic against the current expansion of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of association. Also on the panel were Craig Newmark and Robert Scoble, so I was in good company; my role would, I thought, be easy — be pro-amateur production, pro-distributed creation, pro-collective action, and so on, things that come naturally to me. What I did not expect was what happened — I ended up defending Keen, and key points from Cult of the Amateur, against a panel of my peers. I won’t review CotA here, except to say that the book is going to get a harsh reception from the blogosphere.On-going work at Studio Hampson, an innovative brand, design and marketing agency with operations in the UK, Germany, USA, & Mexico. Supporting associate role at the Internet Time Alliance , with an avid interest in the responsible and thoughtful use of innovative technologies to improve learning outcomes. Core activities include Business Innovation , Social Analytics , Social Business, Brand Design , and Collective Intelligence . Strength in local and international business and creative solutions, lasting relationships and ethical practice, a holistic collaborative approach assures relevant value and effective outcomes.