Everyone is talking about "Social Business" - but what does it mean and is it just the latest fad? Greater customer satisfaction, more innovation, faster access to knowledge; agile processes delivered via a people-centred organisation. These are just some of the benefits being tantalising promised by the advocates.
"Content Curation
Best practice and introduction to tools for collecting, organising and sharing information relevant to a particular topic or area of interest."
Organise your social footprint
Put all your social media profiles, sites, groups, communities into one place with one URL. Making yourself more approachable.
Steve Dale, Chair of the Online Information Conference, and Geoffrey Mccaleb (a social media and mobile consultant) shared some statistics on the growth and uptake of social tools and thoughts about how they are likely to be used in the future.
NetIKX's first seminar of 2012 was its 3rd on the theme of social media in so many years. Previous seminars have explored whether social media should be taken seriously, and how social media could be used to achieve organisational goals and the implications for organisational IM / KM policies and strategies.
"This master class will explore the emerging role of the "Content Curator" and how it relates to the information profession. Topics covered will include:
* Search techniques and aggregation tools to find and filter relevant information.
* Tips and techniques for organising and categorising information.
* How to validate trusted information sources.
* Licencing and copyright requirements for re-published information.
* Adding value &context to curated content through storytelling techniques
* An introduction to a selection of content curation tools.
* An introduction to tools that support high-impact and content-relevant newsletters."
This one day course provides a practical and detailed introduction to Web 2.0 tools and techniques that will support more effective collaboration and knowledge sharing, and will give greater confidence to staff that may be on the periphery of the socio-technology changes that are becoming increasingly prevalent in both their professional and private lives.
Klout tracks the impact of your opinions, links and recommendations across your social graph. We collect data about the content you create, how people interact with that content and the size and composition of your network. From there, we analyze the data to find indicators of influence and then provide you with innovative tools to interact with and interpret the data.