The Infotention Network | Life Skills for Digital Citizenship 10 Ways a Social Intranet Can Help You Cut Down on Email Social intranets benefit the enterprise by facilitating communication. The ability to connect with others through the intranet reduces our reliance on email which tends to be slower and less effective than tools like instant messaging and microblogs. Besides, we lose a significant amount of time and productivity every day, because we have to process so much email. In this post, I’m going to show how many of the things you are currently accomplishing with email can easily be replaced by internal social networking applications. These apps often do an even better job than emails, especially if you want immediate response or better archiving. 1. Instead of sending email: Send an instant message. Your message will pop into your co-worker’s screen and get their attention even without them checking their email. 2. Instead of emailing the draft document: Upload it in a folder. Emailing drafts back and forth gets confusing very quickly. 3. Colleagues can post their comments on compre studies. 4. 5.
Crap Detection 101 | City Brights: Howard Rheingold “Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him.” Ernest Hemingway, 1954 The answer to almost any question is available within seconds, courtesy of the invention that has altered how we discover knowledge – the search engine. Unless a great many people learn the basics of online crap detection and begin applying their critical faculties en masse and very soon, I fear for the future of the Internet as a useful source of credible news, medical advice, financial information, educational resources, scholarly and scientific research. The first thing we all need to know about information online is how to detect crap, a technical term I use for information tainted by ignorance, inept communication, or deliberate deception. The issue of info pollution has been on my mind since at least 1994, when I wrote “The Tragedy of the Electronic Commons” about the infamous Canter and Siegel – the first Internet spammers. Today, just as it was back then, “Who is the author?”
50 Free Social Media Tools You Can't Live Without A couple years ago, Jay Baer wrote a great blog post called ‘The 39 social media tools I’ll use today’ which was an all-in-one toolkit for social media marketers (and still is). A lot has changed in the two years since that post was published so here is a ’2012 remix’ featuring 50 (mostly free) tools you can use on a daily basis. Whether you are just starting out in the social media arena or have been at it for a few years, this will hopefully be a handy resource. So, let’s serve ‘em up! Listening / Research The foundations for any social media marketing activity start with listening and in-depth research, ranging from influencer identification to campaign planning. General listening tools Best in class: SocialMention.com – As far as ‘free’ options go, this is a solid as it gets.Alternatives: BoardReader.com (discussion board specific), Addictomatic.com (a general listening dashboard) and PeopleBrowsr.com (big data, big insights). Specific listening tools General research tools Engagement
Main Page (Mouse over the webbrain below, click on nodes) June 19 - July 26 A six week course using asynchronous forums, blogs, wikis, mindmaps, social bookmarks, concept maps, Personal Brain, and synchronous audio, video, chat, and Twitter Cost for individuals is 300 dollars US or 500 dollars if employer reimburses -- via Paypal. 250 for graduates of Rheingold U courses ($200 if you've taken two courses, etc.) About this Course Think-know Tools dives into both the theoretical-historical background of intellect augmentation and the practical skills of personal knowledge management. As with other Rheingold U. courses, Think-Know Tools involves 6 weeks of Graduates of Introduction to Mind-Amplifiers can treat Think-Know Tools as an extension of what we covered before. Learning objectives About this course: Expect participative and collaborative learning Schedule Missions Lexicon Texts Session Wiki Pages A Set of Short Videos Related to this Course Web-Brain Version of Syllabus
PEG · Knowledge Workers in the British Raj Note: This is the second part of a longer series on how social media is affecting management. You can find the first post – The future of (knowledge) work – and subsequent posts – The north-south divide, Working in Hollywood, World of Warcraft in the workplace and Problems and the people who solve them – elsewhere on this blog. Prior to the industrial revolution, most folk, apart from apprentices and other people in training, worked for themselves. Home wasn’t here and work wasn’t there: they were in the same place and tightly intertwined. For the last few decades though, we’ve all become used to working in the large bureaucracies that most modern companies use to manage their workforces. For many pundits the shift to a more social business – driven by Enterprise 2.0 and Social Business Design – is the chance to humanize these bureaucracies that we’ve created, bringing back some of the more personal experiences we used to enjoy. Our companies are not what they used to be References
Smart Mobs » Page not found The chapters of Smart Mobs, including summaries of each chapter and weblog entries for that chapter. A summary of the book Links to outside evaluations of the book. See Howard Rheingold in your area discussing the book and its implications. Information about resources used in the creation of Smart Mobs. Smart mobs emerge when communication and computing technologies amplify human talents for cooperation. Street demonstrators in the 1999 anti-WTO protests used dynamically updated websites, cell-phones, and "swarming" tactics in the "battle of Seattle." The pieces of the puzzle are all around us now, but haven't joined together yet. The people who make up smart mobs cooperate in ways never before possible because they carry devices that possess both communication and computing capabilities.
Long View: Jane Hart Principal and Director of Collaboration Internet Time Alliance Bath, United Kingdom An independent consultant, speaker, and writer, Jane Hart is an internationally known specialist in the use of social media for learning and working. She is a principal of the Internet Time Alliance, a think tank of leading practitioners who help organizations exploit emerging practices to work smarter. Hart is also the founder of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4LPT), a free resource site on the use of technologies for learning and performance, which has become one of the world's most visited websites about learning with more than 100,000 visits per month. A prolific blogger, for many years, Hart has posted a daily learning resource on the popular Jane's Pick of the Day, and she posts regularly on her Learning in the Social Workplace blog. Can you tell me a little bit about how your first entered the learning and development field? These services are all going to be quite important.
Books Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-expanding Technology (1985) Full text South of San Francisco and north of Silicon Valley, near the place where the pines on the horizon give way to the live oaks and radiotelescopes, an unlikely subculture has been creating a new medium for human thought. When mass-production models of present prototypes reach our homes, offices, and schools, our lives are going to change dramatically. The first of these mind-amplifying machines will be descendants of the devices now known as personal computers, but they will resemble today’s information processing technology no more than a television resembles a fifteenth-century printing press. The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (1993) Full Text When I started writing about online sociality, I didn’t realize that universities would have programs for cyberculture studies decades later. Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution (2002) ( about the book — summaries, reviews )
Ethan Zuckerman - Rewire: Rethinking Globalization in an Age of Connection Jon, Krebs's research is really helpful stuff. There's been lots of research on left/right polarization around media and US politics - I review quite a bit of it in the book. It's interesting to think about the books that he sees appealing to both left and right - some are simply very compelling and well-written, while one seems to be being bought by the right to better understand strategy from the left. It's an interesting problem, trying to figure out what any one person would find compelling that's also off-radar for them. Jon, I think there's great benefit to stepping back from social media and interacting with the real world. Members: Enter the conference to participate