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I was considering how useful a site like Diigo will be when we have a number of different devices to access the internet with. All of our bookmarking will be available in the cloud, rather than historically making use of folders on laptop

Its often hard to know the difference between goals and objectives - in fact, we often use the two terms interchangeably. But knowing the difference can help us to use both in a constructive way, to get us from where we are to where we want to go.

for those who are wondering what goals in an organisation actually means.

Interesting statistics on use of social networks by age. US data from December 2014.

Using social media in the classroom

Remarks that technology is adoped based what they do for us and their meaning to us. compared between US and Japan's use of car v.s mobile.

Article about how technology is/has been adopted in different times. Not poitically correct in my opinion

Zuni presets a case study on the use of social media at the Australian School of Business at UNSW. 12 key stakeholders took part to align a social media strategy over a very diverse range of tools. Very useful case study

Focus is on creating meaningful, and shareable content for schools. The focus is on how to use social media and create social media rather than focusing on negative and how not to behave. Schools needs to consider both social media for schools to market the ethos of the school but also how social media is used in schools by staff and students.

This is an example of a very simple policy that establishes purposes of social media and ICT within the school, guidelines for use, expected behaviours and consequences for deviating from expected behaviours. This policy comes in the form of an agreement to be signed by both parents and students to ensure the policy is understood and adhered to. The agreement links to a single page explanation of what the Facebook page is to be used for and the rights of the school to remove content as it sees fit. While not comprehensive, it is a nice, simple policy/agreement that sets some ground rules.

I was happy to find a relevant and recent article advocating the use ofcial media for voluntary organisations. Abstract: There is potential for nonprofit organizations to increase effectiveness by mobilizing social media to help achieve goals. However, the sector is only just becoming aware of the possibilities for social media and lags behind other sectors in its use. We report a New Zealand initiative to enhance the capability of nonprofit organizations through action research that has implications for nonprofit organizations elsewhere. Borrowing from resource mobilization theory, we introduce the concept of resource mobilization chains to explain the requirements for and obstacles to taking advantage of social media. A survey and two in-depth case studies found that nonprofit organizations demonstrated extremely limited familiarity with and use of social media. Participants were enthusiastic about the potential of mobilizing social media to achieve organizational goals, but struggled to take concrete steps to implement their aspirations. Lack of resources was a key obstacle identified in both survey and case study research

This policy informs Western Australia Department of Education employees of the potential damage their personal use of social media can directly or indirectly affect the Department. Specific areas of interest in this policy include the legitimate and non-legitimate use of social media, the identification of key risk areas, and the duty of care towards students.

This is another case study that looks at why nonprofit organisations may utilise social media and how they may build a social media policy. In the resulting research, the study outlines how NPOs view social media, what they use it for (i.e. marketing, awareness, etc.) and the barriers it presents. Also, it examines how social media can be used as not only a means of communication, but also as a means to interact with stakeholders in a deeper conversation.

Very useful and becoming more and more essential as social media sources become more mainstream.

Thanks Kathy, I like this, its very useful :)

This article highlights the use, issues and benefits of using social networking sites in libraries.

This article demonstrates the needs and challenges in setting social media policies in school. Since schools encourage using social media in education context, policies should be made to guide students using social media in safe. Privacy, identitiy, compliance, content authority, accessibility and privacy have to be concerned. The article suggest that social media policy should have clear guidelines and firm principles, explain rules and consequences when violate, and resources list and review time for references.

This article, written by the co-founder of Buffer, compiles the findings of several social media studies and provides interesting insights and statistics about social media. Because much of the article is about how people use social media and what people expect from social media, as well as how and when are the best times for companies to use social media tools, this article is very helpful to those using web 2.0 technology for work purposes.

Social media technologies have a number of characteristics that may suit information access and informal knowledge management by older adults, and there is a rapid uptake of these technologies by this demographic. Based on the characteristics of social media technologies and previous findings of online knowledge management, we introduce a novel framework for achieving social media-based knowledge management suited to older adult communities. The framework involves several key aspects and requirements: public peer-to-peer sharing of information, evaluation of content amongst peers, the "push" nature of these technologies, ease-of-use through simple interfaces, affordability, platforms that are extensible to support a wide range of information types, a self-organizing information dissemination network, and a human-based peer trust network. We conducted a six-month trial of 150 participants using Facebook, Twitter and Skype to determine their perceptions and preferences in relation to using these social technologies. We found that in the majority, the views of the older adult participants were well matched to the requirements for achieving social media-based knowledge management, identified in the framework. In addition, we discuss the implications of the findings for the implementation of future social media-based knowledge management systems.

Sounds useful for the assignment for those looking at academic libraries

Thanks Maddy - very relevant :)