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Lurking is Not a Static State

ID Reflections

Those people derive a lot of value from that community interaction and so does your company since they do not clog up your customer call center. Active lurkers also include those people who may visit a customer support community and find a solution to their problem without contributing to the community.

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What's on Your Social Wish List?

CLO Magazine

Imagine a senior executive in your company returns from Thanksgiving weekend having read white papers from IBM that say social business is the next step in the overall evolution of business. Harvard Business Review, Forbes and Fast Company already told him brainpower has become the engine of innovation.

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Your social wishlist

Jay Cross

Your company will install an in-house social network. Wise Chief Learning Officers are thinking about how social networks will augment learning & development. Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Fast Company had already told him that brainpower has become the engine of innovation. speed up access to knowledge.

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What Universities Must Learn About Social Networks

Jay Cross

A social business is one where all the members of the corporate ecosystem (employees, customers, partners, and customers) network with one another to delight their customers. IBM describes socially networked corporations as the next step in the overall evolution of business. It isn’t just to the benefit of students, though.

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SMBs and Social Learning Technologies

Janet Clarey

IT and senior leadership buy-in can be particularly difficult perhaps because it’s easy to find evidence of abuse that can undermine implementing social learning technologies. Social media, in general, is misunderstood in many organizations. Distance learning—Social software’s killer ap? 2, 2005, pp. Anderson, T.