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Social Citizens: How Social Media Can Help Social Problems

Mindjumpers

Tweet Last week, Facebook finally revealed their much hyped “life saving” feature: the organ donor status. This has sparked our interest towards other examples of how brands and charity organizations have managed to use social media as a platform to help social problems through user engagement.

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What Do We Need to Teach About Knowledge Work? | Computer Writing and Research Lab

Buzz Marketing for Technology

In this white paper, I take a postcritical stance (Selber 2004). Knowledge works primary product is knowledge, which is circulated across and through organizations. Knowledge work tends to be organized in distributed, heterogeneous networks rather than in modular hierarchies such as those Marx described (1990).

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Make Your LinkedIn Profile Work for You | chrisbrogan.com

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Here’s the first paragraph of my summary: I show businesses how to use social media technologies for external community building and outreach, and for internal collaboration. Chris Brogan advises businesses, organizations and individuals on how to use social media and social networks to build relationships and deliver value.

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Eight steps to thriving on information overload

Buzz Marketing for Technology

« Professional services network offsite: Tapping the Power of Collaboration | Main | Audio stream of radio interview on Facebook, networks, connectivity, and media » Eight steps to thriving on information overload. Strategic White Paper: How Collaborative Technologies are Transforming Financial Services. Books and Reports.

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The Future of Work Weblog

Buzz Marketing for Technology

December 2004. November 2004. October 2004. September 2004. August 2004. April 2004. March 2004. February 2004. January 2004. Collaborative Technologies. People and Organizations. The extent to which the work is individual or collaborative. April 2005. March 2005.

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Everyone’s on Facebook, Why Aren’t They on the Intranet Too?

Social Media Strategery

In the fall I wrote a guest post entitled, “ But I Don’t WANNA Change ” about using change management techniques to encourage the adoption of social media within organizations. We are social creatures, but businesses that assume our social tendencies will ensure the success of a new collaboration platform are gravely mistaken.

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TruthForce! | How Wiki Software is Changing Communication

Buzz Marketing for Technology

As discussed in the article below, self-organized and collaborative networks--especially fueled by the advent of wiki-software for instance--are changing the ways we work and communicate with some even predicting an impact on the nature and practice of democracy. to foster innovation across organizational and geographic boundaries.

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