The power of tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Yammer, are pretty astounding. lot of the Social Media Mavens , however, are really ranting, not about the technology, but about the human dynamics related to social networking.  If we separate the human aspect of social networking from the technology, we can learn a lot more about the power of networks – not just from today’s pundits, but from many years of sociological research on the topic. The clustering of employee groups was not the surprising thing.  Blog this! Properly d. MORE >>

Our office has been receiving numerous requests to help incorporate social media tools into a variety of communication and education projects. Our clients want help creating blogs, wikis, collaborative workspaces, and social networks. But we also have to be frank and point out that if you create a social networking space, there is no guarantee that it will be used. You can’t mandate that your audience “be social.”. In several recent cases we suggested our clients survey their intended audience before launching into social media. Are they toes-. MORE >>

Social networking sites such as Facebook provide a way to meet both of these goals, however according to a survey  54% of U.S. employers employers ban sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn at work.  Organizations cite many reasons for banning Facebook and other social networking platforms including company privacy, productivity, and network security.  Here’s Argument: “We see stories all the time about Facebook users that divulge private company information or say inappropriate things on their profiles.  MORE >>

Introduction to Social Networking. Online social networks facilitate connections between people based on shared interests, values, membership in particular groups (i.e., They make it easier for people to find and communicate with individuals who are in their networks using the Web as the interface. tools are a form of social networking, but for this module we’re going to focus on “ego-centric&# social networks, those that are focused on individuals, as opposed to networks that build up around objects, such as Delicious, Flickr, Slideshare, etc. MORE >>

What Universities Must Learning About Social Networks. Increasingly, businesses are looking to more social approaches to employee learning and development. THE ISSUE IS NOT whether you are going to become a socially networked university but how soon. Businesses are being transformed into social businesses. Social business is the flavor of the day in the C-suites of the Fortune 500. IBM describes socially networked corporations as the next step in the overall evolution of business. Networks are the glue that connects us. MORE >>