Social networking tools have taken off in the past five years. Facebook has over 800 million users, Twitter over 200 million, and even newcomer Google+ with over 50 million. The ubiquity of these tools in our personal lives has spilled over the firewall and into the enterprise, re-labeled as social computing.
Social computing is a broad term that encompasses a range to tools, including blogs, wikis, profiles (with social/professional connections), microblogging and discussion forums.
Are you an advocate for social computing? A knowledge management practitioner? Join me on Tuesday, October 4th for a Twitter Chat I’ll be moderating at KMers.org. To participate in this Twitter-powered discussion you can use your favorite Twitter app with the hashtag #KMers or even easier — just sign in with your Twitter account at the live chat page on KMers.org. The chat will begin at 9am Pacific and run for an hour.
During this chat we will discuss the differences and similarities between the social computing movement and knowledge management, how to reconcile and integrate the two, and the implications for KM over the next five years.
Agenda
- How do you define social computing, and how does it differ from KM?
- What social computing tools and approaches are working well for you?
- Where do informal social computing “communities” or team rooms fit in the context of communities of practice?
- Should social computing tools be “managed?”
- When does social computing and collaboration become KM? Is a boundary necessary or even beneficial?
Interested? Join us, and you can follow me @jeffhester and keep the discussion going.