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technology has streamlined, automated, and simplified nearly aspect of the business information landscape
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hat has not changed significantly, however, is the nature of human interactions in business – email, conference calls, and presentations by experts to non-experts are still the dominant means of interaction
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With the advent of Web 2.0 technologies, however, the Internet has morphed from a presentation medium to an interactive platform in just a few years.
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blogosphere now features 70 million blogs and is growing by 120,000 blogs per day, or 1.4 blogs per second. In addition, there are roughly 17 new blog posts created per second, for a total of 1.5 million new posts per day. As of September 2006, Wikipedia boasted 1.7 million pages and over 150,000 authors.
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The IBM Institute for Business Value study “The End of Advertising as We Know It” reports that more than 50 percent of Americans aged 20-30 years old use Facebook (based on an analysis of Facebook ad data and U.S. census information), and among Americans under the age of 35, social networking and user-generated content sites have overtaken TV as a primary media. But this is not just a young person’s medium: According to Comscore, another web analysis site, “Visitors to MySpace.com and Friendster.com generally skew older, with people age 25 and older comprising 68 and 71 percent of their user bases, respectively.”
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Community and social networking technologies such as blogs, wikis, and message boards—all of which provide different frameworks for user-generated content—help facilitate conversations, communication, and transparency, enabling connections between people and information, both within and outside of the organization. These captured connections and conversations ensure not only greater business performance, tighter relationships, and better overall alignment, but business intelligence as well.
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In a recent blog post, analyst Josh Bersin of Bersin & Associates listed some of the characteristics of Millenials, which included a desire to work in “[open] and flat organizations” as “part of a tribe.” He also noted that Millennials make “heavy use of technology (messaging, collaboration, online learning) as a daily part of their work lives.”
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06 May 08
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And this challenge can only be met in one of three ways: outperforming the competition in recruiting and retention; improving employee development, performance, and growth to backfill critical gaps from retirement; or rethinking the roles and responsibilities of talented Boomers who are willing to re-imagine or postpone their retirement.
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25 Apr 08
Janice StearnsArticle on the changing trends in society. via Vicki Davis
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24 Apr 08
Vicki DavisBusiness people and management should read this article about the transformation of business by using workplace communities.
"Workplace communities are designed to solve workplace-related challenges" -- they focus on tasks. I would find it interesting to see a business REALLY use technology to change things.
Having the business in a business network (OK a NING) and let people tag their posts with the business related PROBLEMS they are having and blog, video, or photograph it-- the tag cloud would tell the business IMMEDIATELY what the problems are in the company.
The problem with this model is that there are few corporate executives who REALLY want to know the problems within their organizations. They don't want to be problem solvers, just opportunity creators.
However, when managers open their eyes (and I'm a former General Manager myself) and see that two things give business opportunity: problem solving and innovation. And they are directly related. True innovation solves problems.
Read this article and think about how you may solve problems using the networks you may now create. If you don't want everyone to know, keep it private and only allow people in your company in.brightideas govt_business connectingpeople hz08 usercontent virtualcollab hzmeta socialos
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What has not changed significantly, however, is the nature of human interactions in business – email, conference calls, and presentations by experts to non-experts are still the dominant means of interaction
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the Internet has morphed from a presentation medium to an interactive platform in just a few years
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a leading web analysis site
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more than 50 percent of Americans aged 20-30 years old use Facebook
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among Americans under the age of 35, social networking and user-generated content sites have overtaken TV as a primary media.
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“Visitors to MySpace.com and Friendster.com generally skew older, with people age 25 and older comprising 68 and 71 percent of their user bases, respectively.”
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We’re in the midst of a paradigm shift where individuals are indeed connecting “in ways and at levels that [they] haven’t done before”
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Workplace communities
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orkplace communities are designed to solve workplace-related challenges
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talent management is about finding, developing, and retaining key talent within the organization
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Ernst & Young, for instance, has a significant presence on Facebook in support of its recruiting efforts
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Google, Home Depot, Enterprise Rent a Car, and Deloitte also are recruiting using Web 2.0 tools through YouTube videos and even alumni social networks
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“If companies keep social networks out, they will be doing a significant disservice to their bottom lines
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Between 2000 and 2020, 75 million Boomers will reach retirement age.
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The only content service with mass adoption (greater than 50 percent) was Social Networking, and this was only among respondents under the age of 35.”
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In addition, Millennials are the first generation to spend more hours online per week than watching TV (16.7 vs 13.6).
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some of the characteristics of Millenials, which included a desire to work in “[open] and flat organizations” as “part of a tribe.”
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“heavy use of technology (messaging, collaboration, online learning) as a daily part of their work lives.”
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robust and active communities will have an easier time recruiting talented Millennials
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they have opportunities to meaningfully connect to their peers and supervisors.
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A retiring Boomer who is an expert in a particular field could be an excellent community manager, blogger, or wiki contributor.
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Gabriela Sellartvia Stephen Downs
changes web 2.0 is bringing to management. "It's clear that change is upon us. Through a combination of technological evolution and a continuing cultural shift toward individual empowerment, the web has become a platform that now enables-
Generation X, with only 45 million workers, lacks the sheer numbers to make up the gap.
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Vance Stevensthe nature of human interactions in business – email, conference calls, and presentations by experts to non-experts are still the dominant means of interaction. With the exception of WebEx-style virtual meetings (and possibly instant messaging), this mo
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