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Social computing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • It has become an important concept for use in business
  • supporting any sort of social behavior in or through computational systems
  • Thus, blogs, email, instant messaging, social network services, wikis, social bookmarking and other instances of what is often called social software illustrate ideas from social computing, but also other kinds of software applications where people interact socially.
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  • The Wisdom of Crowds
  • growing popularity of social software and Web 2.0
  • Social computing begins with the observation that humans — and human behavior — are profoundly social
  • social information provides a basis for inferences, planning, and coordinating activity
  • The premise of social computing is that it is possible to design digital systems that support useful functionality by making socially produced information available to their users
  • Google's page rank algorithms which orders search results based on the number of pages that (recursively) point to them
  • Social computing can be defined as follows: Social Computing" refers to systems that support the gathering, representation, processing, use, and dissemination of information that is distributed across social collectivities such as teams, communities,organizations, and markets. Moreover, the information is not "anonymous" but is significant precisely because it is linked to people, who are in turn linked to other people.
  • Web 2.0 Main article: Web 2.0 A generation of internet applications was developed implementing aspects of social computing developed in the early 21st century.
  • Enterprise social software Main article: Enterprise social software Of particular interest in the realm of social computing is social software for enterprise. Sometimes referred to as "Enterprise 2.0",[2] a term derived from Web 2.0, this generally refers to the use of social computing in corporate intranets and in other medium- and large-scale business environments.
  • Collaborative filtering Main article: Collaborative filtering Collaborative filtering is the method of making automatic predictions (filtering) about the interests of a user by collecting taste information from many users (collaborating). Recommender systems often use it as a "social approach" in order to obtain music, movie, product, web site etc. recommendations.
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Social search - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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      Social Search. Trust in your peers !
  • Social search takes many forms, ranging from simple shared bookmarks or tagging of content with descriptive labels to more sophisticated approaches that combine human intelligence with computer algorithms[2] [3].
  • Social search or a social search engine is a type of web search method that determines the relevance of search results by considering the interactions or contributions of users. When applied to web search this user-based approach to relevance is in contrast to established algorithmic or machine-based approaches where relevance is determined by analyzing the text of each document or the link structure of the documents.[1]
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  • Social search or a social search engine is a type of web search method that determines the relevance of search results by considering the interactions or contributions of users
  • Benefits To date social search engines have not demonstrated measurably improved search results over algorithmic search engines. However, there are potential benefits deriving from the human input qualities of social search. Reduced impact of link spam by relying less on link structure of web pages. Increased relevance because each result has been selected by users. Leverage a network of trusted individuals by providing an indication of whether they thought a particular result was good or bad. The introduction of 'human judgement' suggests that each web page has been viewed and endorsed by one or more people, and they have concluded it is relevant and worthy of being shared with others using human techniques that go beyond the computer's current ability to analyze a web page. Web pages are considered to be relevant from the reader's perspective, rather than the author who desires their content to be viewed, or the web master as they create links. More current results. Because a social search engine is constantly getting feedback it is potentially able to display results that are more current or in context with changing information.
  • Concerns Risk of spam. Because users can directly add results to a social search engine there is a risk that some users could insert search spam directly into the search engine. Elimination or prevention of this spam would require the ability to detect the validity of a user's' contribution, such as whether it agrees with other trusted users. "The Long Tail" of search is a concept that there are so many unique searches conducted that most searches, while valid, are performed very infrequently. A search engine that relied on users filling in all the searches would be at a disadvantage to one that used machines to crawl and index the entire web.
  • he concept of social ranking can be considered to derive from Google's PageRank algorithm,[citation needed] which assigns importance to web pages based on analysis of the link structure of the web, because PageRank is relying on the collective judgment of webmasters linking to other content on the web. Links, in essence, are positive votes by the webmaster community for their favorite sites.
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Social Media Policies from 80+ Organizations - 0 views

  • One of the key challenges for modern organizations is to define a social media policy.
  • One of the key challenges for modern organizations is to define a social media p
  • Should Your Company Have a Social Media Policy? and 10 Must-Haves for Your Social Media Policy
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  • Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing.
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Get a freakin' clue - 49 compelling facts about Social Media : Cody Burleson - 0 views

  • Get a freakin’ clue – 49 compelling facts about Social Media
  • Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the web.
  • In the near future, we will no longer search for products and services – they will find us via social media.
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  • We no longer search for the news – the news finds us.
  • Social media isn’t a fad, its a fundamental shift in the way we communicate.
  • It’s a people driven economy.
  • Successful companies in social media act more like party planners, aggregators, and content providers than traditional advertisers.
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The shift to Social Computing | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com - 0 views

  • The generally accepted basic tenets of Social Computing are: 1) Innovation is moving from a top-down to bottom-up model 2) Value is shifting from ownership to experiences 3) Power is moving from institutions to communities
  • Consequently, it appears that the two-way Web is increasingly moving the power out of the hands of trusted institutions and into the hands of everyday users, who decide for themselves what products they should buy, whose information they should consume, what marketing they want.
  • [A] new social structure is emerging in which technology puts power in communities, not institutions. Forrester calls this evolution Social Computing. Sounds like Web 2.0, right? We think not. And here’s why: Web 2.0 is about specific technologies (blogs, podcasts, wikis, etc) that are relatively easy to adopt and master. Social Computing is about the new relationships and power structures that will result. Think of it another way: Web 2.0 is the building of the Interstate Highway System in the 1950s; Social Computing is everything that resulted next (for better or worse): suburban sprawl, energy dependency, efficient commerce, Americans’ lust for cheap and easy travel.
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Study finds retailers are thinking socially | Webware - CNET - 1 views

  • Study finds retailers are thinking socially
  • The biggest concern among respondents is that consumers will "trash their products in front of a large audience,"
  • At the same time, companies very much want to partake in the social Web.
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  • Brands are especially worried about negative comments hurting a brand, but they also know that they need to go social. That's why they're using Facebook and Twitter with some success
  • Of all social media, Facebook drew the most interest of respondents, followed by Twitter. Tying for third place were customer reviews and blogs. Viral videos took fifth.
  • consumers listen to their peers
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12 Rules For Bringing 'Social' To Your Business | SocialComputingJournal.com - 0 views

  • very important conversation happening right now in organizations around the world. It's how those companies are going to make the transition from traditional 1-to-1 relationships with their partners and customers to a one-to-many community relationship where the company is only another member of an endless ongoing conversation.
  • This conversation will be the very lifeblood of companies in the future and consist of all the ideas, concerns, solutions, news, learning, product development, sales, marketing, customer service (i.e. the fundamental fabric of the organization) taking place between anyone, anywhere who feels they have a stake.
  • Major Fortune 500 organizations have started this process. Sears and Kmart launched social sites this week (see a good discussion of this topic on Friendfeed) directly aimed at beginning the journey of becoming social businesses. Limited visions but probably the right direction.
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  • Claims that you can use a Twitter account to turn around your customer service are another. These things can certainly help make a business social, but they are just the means to a long journey; a new way of operating a business in a more open, emergent, and efficient way.
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The Top Six Reasons Companies are Still Scared of Social Media - 1 views

  • 1- Employees will waste time with social media.
  • The value to workers of having Internet access - in terms of research, communication, and speed - is far greater than the threat of lost productivity. Companies have a right to make policies and rules about personal use of the Internet, but blocking it during work is just stupid.
  • 2- Haters will damage our brand
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  • 3- We'll lose control of the brand.
  • 4- Social media requires a real budget! It's not really cheap, or free.
  • integrate social media into the company's overall marketing
  • 6- They're scared of giving away corporate secrets or that information on social networks will affect the stock price.
  • social media policy
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3 Great Social Media Policies to Steal From - 0 views

  • smart business to have a social media policy
  • social media policy that sets the foundation of your expectations, empowers your employees to tweet or blog without fear, rewards social media problem-solving, and educates staff on things to avoid in both personal and professional status updates.
  • What to steal: Moderation guidelines Why? Intel does a good job at breaking down why bad or negative content should not be moderated unless it’s offensive .
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  • What to steal: Transparency guidelines Why? They’re simple, straightforward, and very clear on boundaries.
  • What to steal: Add Value section Why? They inspire IBMers to be thoughtful content creators on the web.
  • asily fear the social web, and yet they’ve chosen to embrace it
  • guidelines are dynamic in nature and will evolve as new trends and technologies are made available.
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Facebook Eats Away at Email Usage on Today's Web - 0 views

  • more people than ever are spending their time online visiting content sites which provide news, information, and entertainment
  • Why Social Networks are Replacing Email As to why social networking sites have led to declining use of other communication tools, Pam Horan, president of the OPA, speculates that it's because people can conduct the same activities on the social networks as they did before via email, IM, and other communication properties, but now they can do so more efficiently. While we would argue that in the business world, emailing is still an essential, "can't live without it" tool, it's not so far-fetched to say that Facebook and the like have changed mainstream users' online behavior. Want to share a funny video? Post it to your profile. Have new pictures from your vacation? Upload them to an online album. These are precisely the sorts of online activities that only a few years ago took place primarily via email messages. Social networking has undoubtedly changed that.
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How an internal social network can dramatically reduce turnover « Jobs in Po... - 0 views

  • How an internal social network can dramatically reduce turnover
  • Best Buy’s internal social network called Blue Shirt Nation
  • social networks can improve your retention efforts and keep employees engaged
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HelpWith: Social Search Without the Effort - 0 views

  • Social search, in which you rely on the expertise of your social network to find answers
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Friends with Benefits: A Social Media Marketing Handbook - 0 views

  • the transition from a “read only” Web 1.0 to a community-driven, interactive Web 2.0 centered on involvement through writing, sharing, and communicating in a group dynamic.
  • Blogs are one of the most powerful elements of social media
  • the risks of getting involved in social media marketing, such as being unsuccessful, being too successful too fast, and getting feedback you’re not quite ready for.
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Spiffbox entices users with cold hard cash | The Web Services Report - CNET News - 0 views

  • Spiffbox is looking to shake up social networking by rewarding its users with cash for participating.
  • Spiffbox utilizes Facebook Connect and Twitter and is meant to build on top of pre-existing social networks instead of trying to build their own unique user base. Instead of trying to be another communication platform for you and your friends, it is intended to help you engage with people outside of your social graph. The focus here is on expert advice as well as career promotion and advancement.
  • We are starting to see a trend of social-networking sites rewarding users for their actions.
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Social networking driving mobile data boom | telecoms.com - telecoms industry news, ana... - 0 views

  • Social networking driving mobile data boom
  • Forget music and video downloads, social networking is driving the growth explosion in mobile data usage, analysts said today.
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Business Social Network - Create & Build Social Networking Sites For Your Business Need... - 0 views

  • Rich social networking features keep your customers hooked.
  • User generated content keeps website content fresh and updated.
  • they wanted to add a community element so their passionate customers had somewhere online to interact with each other about child care, as well as Earthling’s products.
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Facebook Beacon has poked its last | The Social - CNET News - 0 views

  • Facebook's experiments in social-media advertising turned instead to "engagement ads," which have come under some scrutiny themselves, and the "fan pages" that it encourages brands, organizations, and celebrities to create.
  • The privacy controls on Connect are clearer and more extensive
  • critical it is to provide extensive user control over how information is shared
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PowerReviews to offer social product reviews to brands | Webware - CNET - 0 views

  • PowerReviews to offer social product reviews to brands
  • PowerReviews said it believes that it's that social element that could significantly improve its clients' ability to drive traffic to their sites. The company makes BrandConnect available to retailers and brands on Tuesday.
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Wiki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Trustworthiness Critics of publicly editable wiki systems argue that these systems could be easily tampered with, while proponents argue that the community of users can catch malicious content and correct it.[2] Lars Aronsson, a data systems specialist, summarizes the controversy as follows: “ Most people, when they first learn about the wiki concept, assume that a Web site that can be edited by anybody would soon be rendered useless by destructive input. It sounds like offering free spray cans next to a grey concrete wall. The only likely outcome would be ugly graffiti and simple tagging, and many artistic efforts would not be long lived. Still, it seems to work very well.[6]
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Employers grappling with social network use | Gaming and Culture - CNET News - 0 views

  • Social networking is on the rise, both on and off the job, leaving companies uncertain how to monitor their use by employees, reports new survey.
  • Employers grappling with social network use
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