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Role of social media in knowledge management

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Knowledge management is what your company, or what your superiors want you to know, based on what they deem is crucial for your work. Your knowledge base probably includes blogs and wikis, or other types of online content, and as we have mentioned, social media is also a place where knowledge is shared.

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Squirrels, long working hours, and social technologies

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You then start feeling that you did not actually take a week off, you just compressed the work of 2 weeks in one. Several of us are working longer hours, taking work home and shrinking our weekends. We are only half joking when we say that vacation is regular work with a nicer view. Is there any way out of this mess?

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Social business, the forest and the garden: Your intranet is not the Internet

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If page-rank search, blogs, wikis, social networks and microblogging work so well out there, they should just thrive in the workplace too, but we now know for a fact that they often don’t. You may no longer remember this, but back in 2006, wikis were all the rage. Why does that happen? Williams was published.

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Hindsight 20/20 Series: 4. Your social business platform as a shopping mall

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After a while, you’ll have to figure out what is the real difference between your social business platform, and all the communications and collaboration products that preceded it, like your intranet web content management system, your corporate wiki, your SharePoint or Lotus Notes, email and telephones.

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The intranet social garden and quantum mechanics

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How can a social platform based on blogs, wikis, discussion forums and status updates succeed under those conditions? As it is often the case in nature, innovation and social media, there are multiple paths towards the success, and levers that work well under certain contexts may be completely inappropriate in others.

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Wikipedia Management for Dummies

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While I have been a proud member of Wikipedia since 2005, I really stopped working on the platform in any real way back in 2006; then, last year, I returned in style, and thought it a good time to share some best-practices, mostly philosophical advice. Wiki Markup Language 101. ==Category Heading==. I’m not on Wikipedia. Addition 1.

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We don’t need a social media ROI model

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” Over the last few years, many in the social media space have been on a quest to find the perfect ROI model for blogs, micro-blogs, wikis, social networking, social bookmarking and other animals in the ever growing Social Business zoo. They were looking for the perfect Pepsi, and they should have been looking for the perfect Pepsi s.”