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Connecting 2 the World: Some thoughts on Work Literacy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Just like family background can have a positive or negative affect on literacy, the support, training, and even understanding of workers at the organizational level can have an effect on work literacy. This might mean eventually benchmarking on an organizational level in order to identify training needs. and community building.

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I Started a Blog But No One Cared | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

Why isn’t anyone editing the wiki pages?) These aren’t trivial questions – people take the time to create a blog post or add content to a wiki because of the promise of emergent collaboration. Post your blog entry, wiki content, forum thread, etc. at least once a week. Cross-promote. Give people an action.

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Interview with Alex Brown, Author: Great and Goodness Barbaro And His Legacy - Part 1

Diva Marketing Blog

It is the story of Barbaro the gallant racing horse and the people who trained, nutured and cared for him. . It is also Alex's story of how he used social media to create a structure that encouraged a community to form that supported Barbaro and each other. . I had used many social media tools to support this community.

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Connecting 2 the World: New skills for the workplace

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Organizations need to move away from the specialist and instead focus on the trainable (who can become a specialist with minimal training). blogs, wikis, etc.). I think that transitional programs into the workforce needs to 1)determine the level of these skills and 2) provide training to develop these and other skills as they evolve.

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Connecting 2 the World: Lessons learned from New Communication Technologies in Organziational Life

Buzz Marketing for Technology

The result is less formal communication (i.e. Also there is more mobility between school, the workplace, and the community (or communities). Wikis, on the other hand have controls built into them that allow for different levels of contribution. e-mails, im, even written documentation such as blogs and discussion forums).

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Connecting 2 the World: A new framework: Part II

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Using the diagram I created, I thought how these categories might be used to assess training and technology needs and how different groups might use different tool sets. As a result, they would be less likely to see a need in becoming a part of a new community, relying on old ties and structures. and community building.

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Connecting 2 the World: Is constructing knowledge based on analysis a work literacy skill?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

One problem I see with all of the data and communication tools available to students is the lack of training on how to problem solve and conduct an analysis. There still is a focus in most business schools and training programs on the quantitative data (hard facts) while qualitative research methods are considered "soft".