But most have  speculated  it goes to staffing social media experts and working with companies like Buddy Media, buying “likes” through third party ad networks, and maintaining a burgeoning amount of content to feed GM’s myriad and increasingly sophisticated presence on the site. figured I’d wait till Monday.

What demographic data we do have on the phenomenon from the Telework Research Network has found existing telecommuters tend to be older, well paid and highly educated professionals. Is remote work only for a select few? Take Hertz’s “Journey to Home” program as an example. “It wasn’t a part-time job.

It’s all about networks. Understanding networks that is. It’s the network : Thinking like a node in a network and not as a position in a hierarchy is the first mental shift that’s required to move to a collaborative enterprise. The collaborative enterprise requires looser hierarchies and stronger networks.

In the same ways that Rypple has taken this model of social networking as a fundamental design point and applied it to performance management systems, I think you’re going to see it apply to a lot of systems, whether it’s recruiting, compensation or learning systems. That’s a lot of social. Image courtesy of Salesforce.

To get maximize that network effect, Sidecar is trying to make its app the first place customers look to when placing any call. If the caller is on a Wi-Fi network, Sidecar will turn launch an HD voice session — which the recipient receives as a regular voice call — for no charge to any U.S. or Canadian number.

If I want to become a better networked learner, can I call a Training specialist to get me started and coach me? Learning & working are interconnected in the network era. There are lots of “learning specialists” in organizations and they work for variously named departments.

They announce that Bing will transform its interface a layout in three separate panes featuring traditional text results, results from specific information sources and services, and results related to your social-network friends. I have been writing a bit about the invasion of social capabilities into all online tools. Now that is a yawer. 

Yes, folks, the network is more powerful than the node - share! When I was writing my Master’s thesis on Learning in the New Brunswick Information Technology Workplace (completed in 1998) I based a part of it on a framework developed  in 1991. In 2008 I wrote a blog post  about SPATIAL as I had found a digital copy of the article.

Think about LinkedIn as a virtual professional networking event. You wouldn’t go to a  face-to-face professional networking event without first dressing appropriately, taking along a few business cards, and having an idea of your purpose for attending. Are you Lazy or is it Fake? Why should I complete my LinkedIn profile?

Think about LinkedIn as a virtual professional networking event. You wouldn’t go to a  face-to-face professional networking event without first dressing appropriately, taking along a few business cards, and having an idea of your purpose for attending. Are you Lazy or is it Fake? Why should I complete my LinkedIn profile?

social networking web 2.0 There's a Twitter focus in the latest issue (vol 40 no 2) of Reference Services Review : - Libraries atwitter: trends in academic library tweeting: by Darcy Del Bosque, Sam A. Leif, Susie Skarl (pp. 199 - 213) - To tweet, or not to tweet? by Susan Jennings (pp. by Steven Bell (pp. by Ameet Doshi (pp. by Lori S.

The project becomes a network of commitments. Real collaboration happens when we agree to move money across borders. Tuesday opened with a fun, story-filled keynote from  Gregory Howell  of the  Lean Construction Institute. I think most of the audience could have listened to him for another hour. That got my attention. Jane: Oh, absolutely.

All large-scale, multi-user communities and online social networks that rely on users to contribute content or build services share one property:  most users don’t participate  very much. With a concrete model of what a social network looks like, people can more easily understand online communities. Communities Technology

As I wrote in my Chapter 1 of Living Networks : The brilliant visionary Marshall McLuhan accurately described the media as an extension of our senses. Marshall McLuhan very often provides an instructive reference point for how we understand our changing world. As I write in Getting Results From Crowds , the power of ideas reigns supreme.

We need to think of organizations as parts of Value Networks. The five informal learning methods described in yesterday’s post on Learning in the Workplace have one thing in common. They are all relatively simple. Most of today’s larger companies have a complicated structure. Unfortunately, training is often not the right solution.

This asserts the importance of information literacy and calls for collaborative work and building of networks for the growth of information literacy in the context of Latin American countries. The Havana declaration on information literacy, from March 2012, is available in Portuguese and Spanish. It has 15 points for action. pli=1

Connect with others in public social networks or in private groups or communities (keeping up to date outside the organization). If you don’t have any private social networks, try some out, like Yammer or Socialcast. Jane Hart asked readers “ how regularly are you “learning” in the workplace? Informal Learning

It is challenging and time-consuming to be always working out ways in which we share value in distributed networks. have been actively exploring structures for shared value creation for close to two decades now, and much of my book Living Networks (particularly the latter section of Chapter 5 on Distributed Innovation ) focused on this issue.

“Social networks are expanded, isolation is reduced and productivity increased – if not quite as markedly as the other two groups,” writes Carsten Foertsch of employee members in DeskMag. Coworking, originally a movement dominated by freelancers and entrepreneurs, is increasingly attracting the attention of larger companies.

Governance in a Networked World : SNA is an 80+ year old science but has been largely ignored by the social analytics community. Here are some of the observations and insights that were shared  via Twitter  this past week. Managers probably don’t really believe that, but ordering training is easier than tackling the real issues.) label.

Network science is replete with numbers, algorithms and formulas. In this presentation some of the more common measures used in Social Network Analysis will be demystified. Numerology is the study of the purported divine, mystical or other special relationship between a count or measurement and life. Events

Clara Shih , Founder of enterprise social media software company Hearsay Social and New York Times bestselling author of The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Market, Sell and Innovate.  The Soho Skylight, awaiting its incarnation as site for the 7th annual CM Summit. Day one’s sponsor spotlight is Luminate.

Perhaps the performance appraisal treadmill is keeping organizations from testing out and adopting better management models for the networked economy. In The Paradox of Performance Pay , Allan Hawke shows how it has clearly led to decreases in organizational performance. This pertains to all levels in the organization. Wirearchy Work

Interop is all about enterprise IT — networks, security, servers, stuff with gravitas — and Google is, well, Google. Of the dozens of meeting requests I received in conjunction with this year’s Interop conference, the one I least expected came from Google. Whatever it is, it’s not enterprise IT. Or is it?

The network economy is changing everyone’s business, and will significantly affect education and training as well. So you think the Web won’t change the business you’re in? Look at how these business models, which were all created since the birth of the Web, have managed to change entire industries. Amazon – Books.

His prescriptions for how to insure we don’t become “gadgets” might well have been the inspiration for my post  Put Your Taproot Into the Independent Web , for example (he implores us to create, deeply, and not be lured into expressing ourselves solely in the templates of social networking sites). don’t.

Like most organizations adapting to the networked society, the college is trying to balance its existing hierarchies (there are many) with the impact of ubiquitous connectivity & pervasive proximity. I really enjoyed my visit to Algonquin College in Ottawa today. had expected more mid-career students. It’s perpetual Beta.

” Using data and real time bidding, demand- and supply-side platforms are growing very quickly, and while the average CPM is low, there is a lot of promise in these new services – so much so, that FMP recently joined forces with one of the best,  Lijit Networks. It’s all over the news these days: Display advertising is dead.

I will be speaking at Algonquin College in Ottawa tomorrow and one of the main themes I will be discussing is how networks are changing our communications, work and education systems. In this “network era”, work is learning and learning is the work, but what does that mean for traditional education and our continuing professional development?

They were produced in collaboration with other key bodies including SCONUL and the Research Information Network. They are both professionally produced and can be downloaded for free. Bent, M., Gannon-Leary, P., Goldstein, S. and Videler, T. 2012) The Informed Researcher. Vitae. link] (the picture here is the second page of this publication

have described how communities of practice can be bridges between our work teams and our loose social networks. Finding new metaphors and models in our social networks and discussing these within the context of our community of practice can foster innovation. Opportunity lies at the edge of systems.

Traditional business culture, with its emphasis on networking, meetings and pitching, doesn’t generally favor introverts. And as Susan Cain argued fairly recently in The New York Times , the current management mania for collaboration, is making matters worse for the quiet ruminators among us. Introverts need interaction, too.

And that’s causing the network as we have known it to undergo a dramatic change. Brocade has over 25 combined years in building data center networking and Ethernet fabric technology. Today’s businesses require highly virtualized and services-on-demand environments. Soon we’ll even be able to do the same with your entire data center.

Update : Companies do have to provide some enterprise-level technologies, like networks, servers, HD telepresence, etc. Live blogging the Corenet Workplace Community: What's the Future? Panel comments - focus on technologies that enable collaboration; depends on managment - rely on results, not activities. Technology helps. Share It!

Panel: it will be linked more closely to operations; will be about attracting and retaining talent, and about enabling people to work wherever they want to Update: now the debate is the "bring your own device" - will knowledge workers be like carpenters and plumbers who have their own tools and just want to plug in to the network. Share It!

The other 95% was just taken care of by the informal networks in the organization. All those informal networks became hyper-connected. The other three are open for the taking in the networked workplace. On-job-training in some cases, or just observation and modelling in others. Then a funny thing happened. Enable Learning.

And that’s causing the network as we have known it to undergo a dramatic change. Brocade has over 25 combined years in building data center networking and Ethernet fabric technology. Today’s businesses require highly virtualized and services-on-demand environments. Soon we’ll even be able to do the same with your entire data center.

With Polycom’s video collaboration tools, educators can manage, monitor and deliver video content, work together across platforms, and connect across networks. Today’s video technology makes education more flexible, rich and accessible than ever before. www.PolycomMovement.com/gom1

Value is created by teams and mostly by networks of people. While Learning really spreads through social networks. In 2009 I listened to Peter Senge’s keynote address at the CSTD national conference. Individual learning in organizations is irrelevant, as work is almost never done by one person alone.

Crowdsourcing Future of business Future of humanity Future of media Future of work Global economy Government Keynote speaker Reputation Social media Social networks Social trendsTheNextWeb produced a good quality video of my keynote at TheNextWeb Conference 2012 , shown below. The economy of individuals. How individuals contribute. Media.

Being on the tenure track and the demands of my job have made me actually connect less with the people who have been in my online professional social network for years. Yesterday was my one-year anniversary of working at Portland State. didn’t leave for a promotion. left because I was looking for new challenges. Yikes. Tweet This!

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  They are not trying to become the all inclusive social networking platform but rather Alfresco uses social features to enhance content management, a good idea. It contains a full set of content management features such as document and records management, workflow, version control, etc. would certainly agree. like what I see.

realize there are some problems in this, in that Social and Communicate are hard to discriminate (hence using the catchall phrase social network ), and Capture is core to context-sensitivity. It’s a slightly different take than my previous meta-mobile post where I looked at performance support, formal learning, and meta-learning.

The perspective of network science views knowledge as socially created and socially re-created. Independently existing people and things then become viewed as co-constructed in coordinated networked action. An exact replication of behavior in nature would be disastrous and seen as neurotic in social life.

So then why is enterprise social software all crazy about microblogging…I get it that it’s easier than blogging and more engaging to be in a network, but an unlimited character limit and offering a few editing buttons won’t make it harder or less engaging. Why do I like Google+. Posts and Messages. Related. Follow up/Flag.

All of this makes no sense unless, as individuals, we engage in our networks and contribute what we have learned or are learning along the way. As I was preparing to start our online PKM workshop last night, I came across one of the best articles that I have read in a long while that reflects the value of what the PKM framework supports.

social networking researchThis looks an interesting article: Asuncion, J. et al (2012) "Social Media Use By Students With Disabilities." Academic Exchange Quarterly , 16 (1). link] They surveyed a convenience sample of 723 students/recent graduates with disabilities, in 2009, in Canada. The most used service was Youtube (91%).

Kim analyzed 190 discussion threads that involved 1,200 participants in ConocoPhillips’ Networks of Excellence. Based on this understanding, ConocoPhillips Network leaders frequently post questions to a number of networks rather keeping the question within a single network. Conversation is a topic I often present about.

As a consequence, I’m talking performance support, social networks, portals, and more, as well as courses on the desktop. Mayra Aixa Avilar  (who I hope to meet someday, maybe at mLearnCon ?)pointed Depends, of course, on what you mean by elearning, to start with. The clear implication is that elearning is about courses on the desktop.

I have written about  Convo  before under its old name (see -  Convofy Enables Comprehensive Collaboration Through Enterprise Social Networking ) and am also a user at both Darwin Ecosystems and the Merced Group. Convo builds on the activity stream but adds additional features to enable more comprehensive collaboration.

Last year, I looked at new hire practices and found some interesting methods: Ensuring new hires understand the shadow or informal part of the organization through the use of tools such as network maps (Jon Katzenbach, Senior Partner of Booz & Company, author of The Wisdom of Teams). Start the process as early as possible. Tweet.

Our networked reality is changing how we view workplace learning. Organizations must also move learning away from training and HR, as some external band-aid solution that gets called in from time to time, to an essential part of doing business in the network age. It didn’t work. Most eLearning is ineffective drudgery. Jay Cross. Tweet.

did manage to get some data service while at the show, but that was because I found a press tent and logged onto the local wifi network there, or I “tricked” my phone into thinking it was logging onto the network for the first time (by turning “airplane mode” off and on over and over again). ”).

I once had a conversation at a networking event where I asked the person if they were on LinkedIn. You’ll have access to the training as well as other resources like books, ebooks, worksheets and more, even three full-length webinars: LinkedIn for Job Seekers, for Recruiters, and for Event Networkers. He said “Great! Need help?

These are one hour networking events at local coffee houses that combine networking with conversation on professional development topics. . One of my current projects involves managing an online community of practice for professionals who help people with disabilities find employment. Going for broke, as it were.

This online workshop on adapting to the networked world of work includes tools, tips & techniques from two facilitators who have been connecting, communicating and collaborating online for over fifteen years. Sometimes it helps to learn out loud – LOL. That’s why we commit to formalized activities. Registration Link. Tweet.

“What we see is a increasing demand of targeted networking and skill development as there is a trend towards entrepreneurial activities,” she wrote, explaining that her space has tried to help along those looking to sell their services outside the stricken traditional job market. Will the effects outlast the crisis?

The network design principles successful organizations follow are: ( 1 ) shortening the distance between two randomly picked files/nodes/people. Personal & professional networks & communities. Markets are conversations ~ Cluetrain Manifesto. … and so are organizations. Esko Kilpi. Conversations. We narrate our work.

The nature of work is changing in our increasingly networked economy. This is why, in the network era, work is learning and learning is the work. Exception-handling is becoming more important in the networked workplace as standardized work provides no competitive advantage in a hyper-connected economy. Work is changing. Tweet.

Barabási is a physicist by training who got into studying disease by first examining networks. Here are some of the observations and insights that were shared  via Twitter  this past week. “Her life is like a Twitter stream – awash with the fleeting and the trivial. ~ @gapingvoid” “The Internet mirrors society. Tweet.

The average worker spends 134 minutes a day on email, 61 minutes on the phone, 28 minutes on SMS and other related tools, and 11 minutes on social networking tools. The first question I had was the relationship between GroupWise, Pulse and Teaming. The answer allowed Kari to explain how they have regrouped their collaboration product line.

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Peter Bregman has an article from two years ago on the HBR Blog Network that got taken up on LinkedIn today, Two Lists You Should Look at Every Morning : List 1: Your focus list. Everyone claims to know what their priorities are. But do they know what to ignore? What to say "no" to? What NOT to do today? List 2: Your ignore list.

Springpad has long been compared to Internet note-taking sensation Evernote , but starting today Springpad will likely be compared to another darling of the startup world, visually oriented social network Pinterest. This social network, however, isn’t built around friends or relationships, but rather items of interest, lists or tasks.

” But getting past the coworking velvet rope isn’t a matter of coolness or what you have to contribute to the networking pool, Dyett insists, but serves a nobler purpose. The number of freelancers is on the rise with estimates of their eventual numbers ranging from more than 50 percent of the U.S. workforce by 2020 to 1.3

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. While a certain amount of hierarchy may be necessary to get work done, networks naturally route around hierarchy. Tweet.

Social network components, including the ability to create/follow activity streams, create work groups, and more. I have covered eXo before (see Benjamin Mestrallet, eXo CEO, Looks at the Social Enterprise ). Recently, I had a chance to speak with Benjamin again about their latest offering. Here is a sample home page screen. eXo Platform 3.0

Either way new ways of managing look more like supervisory urban planning, husbanding a network of individual citizens, rather than wrench-wielding managers tinkering with systems with that cast workers in the role of cogs. Gray writes: Historically, we have thought of companies as machines, and we have designed them like we design machines.

LinkedIn 101 LinkedIn Training & Coaching Networking Skills LinkedIn Lori Ruff recommendations triberrI love recommendations. They provide 3rd party testimonial proof that your LinkedIn profile is peer reviewed and credible.  What I dread is when someone sends me a recommendation request that has nothing but the default text.

I have written about Convo before under its old name (see - Convofy Enables Comprehensive Collaboration Through Enterprise Social Networking ) and am also a user at both Darwin Ecosystems and the Merced Group. Convo builds on the activity stream but adds additional features to enable more comprehensive collaboration.  

Business and IT leaders who are wrestling with whether or not personal devices should be allowed in their company’s network should embrace this change. The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement has gained unstoppable momentum. And thanks to the burgeoning mobile app market, employees have high expectations for these tools.

Hugh Macleod, one of my favourite cartoonists and someone who really understands the networked economy, recently asked;  How Do You Best Prepare For The Creative Age? Image: Gapingvoid.com. New media literacy. Virtual collaboration. Cognitive load management. Novel and adaptive thinking. Social intelligence. Trans-disciplinarity. Tweet.

Now author and HBR Blog Network pundit Tammy Erickson is adding another domain to the list of areas where less freedom and more structure is actually a good thing – collaboration. Poets sometimes claim that writing within strict formal structures spurs creativity, and parents are told that firm boundaries actually help kids flourish.

Every day, billions of transactions pass through Brocade network fabrics as they push high-bandwidth applications to the very edges of the network. Our self-forming Ethernet fabrics allow you to deploy new switches, migrate virtual machines, and reconfigure your network as your business needs demand, without a moment of interruption.

“Join a new online network? Network Tensions – by @panklam. Tensions, I wrote, “are present all the time; both leaders and members of a network should be aware of how these tensions impact the health of a network. Here are some of the observations and insights that were shared  via Twitter  this past week.

Look Beyond the Team: It's About the Network HBR - bit.ly/GKfX2c. Here is another in a series of posts that provide access to my favorite tweets that contain links to useful information.    Some of these I did to link to things I found useful and others are RTs that I want to save for the same reason. HkTDuo. GUiCeg. H9qvH6.

My hunch is that the key to profitability isn't in the number of years you have spent doing whatever you did before, but rather whether you spent that time keeping on top of your profession, building your network, and learning to take a strategic perspective. profit) of at least $20,000 in 2011. Two-thirds have MLS degrees.

In my opinion, knowledge management should be about supporting personal knowledge management in networks, a distributed, not centralized, approach.  Net Work Literacy  entails self-organized learning while cooperating in diverse networks. “Every amateur epistemologist knows that knowledge cannot be managed. Tweet.

Being active on social networks and demonstrating your subject matter expertise will help make you visible in modern recruiting apps like Jobvite, which are rapidly gaining traction in forward thinking companies

IT World offers some explanation of the technical details , which apparently produced no major issues: “In preparation, O2 upgraded its virtual private network (VPN) as well as its network infrastructure, which saw a 155 percent increase in users on the day, and a 110 percent increase in VPN data sent across the network.

The idea first came to me as I realized how many of my clients and colleagues were not as connected as they could be, too often wasting their time on routine things and not building networks that could help them get work done. Once the job is gone, many also lose their professional networks. There are 24 hours in a day.

I’d have noticed that they used their computers and online networks to communicate with each other, to share information, to search and discover things, and to create communities of interest. So here we go. So what might that look like thirty years hence? That’s a pretty tall order. But what if those protagonists are already here?

I’d have noticed that they used their computers and online networks to communicate with each other, to share information, to search and discover things, and to create communities of interest. So here we go. So what might that look like thirty years hence? That’s a pretty tall order. But what if those protagonists are already here?

Harness the power of your team with FMYI, a private social network collaboration site for getting things done. Create a private social network to get things done. Create a private social network to get work done. It combines a social networking site look and feel with tools to achieve your goals. FMYI | For My Innovation.

iSimplyConnect , which officially launches on Tuesday, is a service that lets workers access their company’s network remotely via an iPad (or iPhone). Though this new service is its first direct-to-business-customers venture, the company behind iSimplyConnect is not new to telecom or networking. Risk factors and the iPad.

The advent of social networking site and online communities has kicked this trend into high gear. Badgeville also has a partnership with Bazaarvoice – through game mechanics – to provide reputation and social loyalty programs to Bazaarvoice’s network. Kevin said that he sees four main reasons. Badgeville is one of these.

I have read several pieces recently that talk about a shift from "traditional" forms of doing work or being organized to a "networked" form. In the context of this reading, I hear "network" again. Where else do you see networks as a stage of maturity or a step in progress of development?

Wolfgang graciously sent me a copy of his PhD thesis (Awareness: Support for knowledge workers in research networks) which he will be defending on 5 April at the Open Universiteit Nederland in Heerlen. Networker. Networking. Awareness of the personal research network. To be able to seek, first you have to be aware.

Early in Lessig’s “ Code v2 ,” which at some point this week I hope to review in full, Lessig compares the early campus networks of two famous educational institutions. Once registered, all interactions with the network are monitored and identified to a particular machine.

Early in Lessig’s “ Code v2 ,” which at some point this week I hope to review in full, Lessig compares the early campus networks of two famous educational institutions. Once registered, all interactions with the network are monitored and identified to a particular machine.

The new People You May Know includes several enhancements designed to make it even easier to find and connect with people in your network: Streamlined user experience. Late last week, LinkedIn announced an update to their  People You May Know  feature that they will be rolling out to users over the next few weeks.

For others, it’s social networking (within a business context). Effective teamwork is one of the most critical keys to success. As a result, collaboration tools are one of the hottest sectors in software. Below are five important trends in collaboration solutions. Collaboration equals integration. Integration does not equal complication.

Here’s a modified version of theses 11 to 13 of the Cluetrain Manifesto (1999), for all those corporate personnel support functions (HR, L&D, OD, KM): People in a networked society have figured out that they get far better information and support from one another than from the human resources department. Tweet. There are no secrets.

That's a good role for your positive peer network. . Long-time readers of this blog know that I am a fervent advocate of the "Act/Reflect" cycle of career and professional development. And I know that failure to deal with both sides of this equation is one of your surest routes to stuck. . Boy, did it resonate! Start with desire. Yes.").

Coworking can provide independent pros with great spaces in which to work and network, but shared work spaces are also good for the local communities surrounding them. The aims of the partnership are twofold. Firstly, the city governments believe that keeping more commuters closer to home will mean more dollars spent in the local community.

The new social science of complex networks is addressing a different kind of problem, a deeper and potentially more important one. The first is the average number of connections you need to join two random people in a network. Tweet Here are some of the observations and insights that were shared via Twitter this past week.

Weak is generally not a desirable characteristic – not in bodyguards, not in cocktails and generally not in networking. But because they are strong ties, you are likely to already know much of what your regular social network knows. Are you guilty of getting complacent about branching out more widely with your social network?

During the night my time I presented to Ketchum PR’s Global Media Network on Tapping the Power of Crowdsourcing for PR. have been an advisor to the Global Media Network for some time, among other activities presenting the highly successful Tapping the Power of Mobile webinar series last year. Cloud Crowdsourcing Enterprise 2.0

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