"Subclassing and Composition – A Pythonic Tour of Trade-Offs", Hynek Schlawack
Give to Get: Real-World Dividends from Social Networking
1. Give to Get: Real-World Dividends
from Social Networking
Presentation to the Boston KM Forum
31 March 2009
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2. About Me
• SharePoint Consultant
with Knowledge
Management
Associates
• Mobile knowledge
worker
• Project teams I work
with are agile,
constantly changing,
never all in the room at
the same time.
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3. I’m a
Consumer
• Flickr photos
• Q&A from community members
• Articles & opinion about companies/products/topics
• Blog content
• Reviews
• SlideShare
• YouTube videos
• Wikipedia 3
4. I’m a
Producer
• Flickr photos
• Blog content
• SlideShare
• Forum questions
& answers
• Reviews
• Delicious Links
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5. Day in the life
• Check company news before going to clients /
check profiles of those w/whom I’m meeting
• Change IM status so co-workers know where I am
• Encounter issue at client site – research blogs, ask
community (Twitter for fast response)
• Link to good information on delicious
• Take screenshots, upload to Flickr
• Blog solutions w/screenshots
• Share delicious links with clients
• Search People info @client sites
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6. Daily
How I Use The Tools Weekly
Monthly or
occasionally
Member
Producer Consumer
Since
Flickr 11/9/05
Delicious 8/15/06
Blog 9/13/06
FaceBook 10/6/06
LinkedIn 10/20/2006
Twitter 12/19/06
SlideShare 2/15/09
KMA SharePoint
Client
SharePoint
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7. How social tools serve me
• Finding answers
• Making connections – personal & professional. (Not just
with colleagues but with partners, vendors, clients, as well
as competitors, and those doing similar or complementary
work in other locations.)
• Creativity
• My brand
• My company
• Ear to the ground / Having a grasp on what’s coming next
• Maintaining relevance
• The potato chip / coffee break
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22. Resources
• Joel Oleson on Successful Twitter microblogging -
http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=0c
d1a63d%2D183c%2D4fc2%2D8320%2Dba5369008acb&ID=11
0
• Discussion – “Why do the securities industry compliance staff
have such a negative view of Linkedin and other social
media?” - http://www.linkedin.com/answers/finance-
accounting/financial-regulation/FIN_FRG/411279-
548650?trk=NUS_ANSW_q_title&goback=%2Ehom
• Guy Kawasaki on Twitter as “Twool” -
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2008/12/how-to-use-twit.html
• 10 privacy settings every facebook user should know –
http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=143902080594
&h=wWGst&u=XrmPm
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23. Tools
• Xobni
• ReTweetRadar, Twitterific, Twitrans, TwitSpy,
Twilert, TweetDeck, TwitPic, TwitterFox,
Twitstat, Tweetrush, Twitterfeed,
Tweetpotato, Splitweet, Qwitter, Twhirl,
Power Twitter
• Company Buzz for LinkedIn
• Google alerts
• Delicious toolbar
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24. For Microsoft SharePoint users:
• Managing Social Networking with MOSS 2007 -
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=98123
&clcid=0x409
• How to Get the Most Value from Social
Computing for Business with Microsoft -
http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/c
/2/ac2fd45a-7749-43dc-9047-
ceaea078a221/Get_the_Most_Value_from_So
cial_Computing_for_Business.doc
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25. Of Additional Interest
• 10 creative uses for Twitter -
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/12/18/
the-10-most-creative-uses-for-twitter/
• Surgeons send 'tweets' from operating room -
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/17/twitt
er.surgery/index.html
• Student twitters his way out of jail -
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/25/twitt
er.buck/index.html
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26. Photo Credits
Slide # Title & Author
2 Untitled by Winslow Martin
3 “Books” by Markus Moning
4 “Answering the nation's need for womanpower, Mrs. Virginia Davis
made arrangement for the care of her two children…” from the Library
of Congress
8 “Direction Signs” by Homer Simpson’s Donut
9 “Giving Thanks” by TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³
10 “chaos and order” by noniphon
12 “Commit No Nuisance Sign London” by greenwood100
13 “MX007S20 World Bank” - World Bank Photo Collection
14 “The line is in!” by Valerie Rice / zwanzig on Flickr
15 “Christmas Mail (LOC)” – Library of Congress
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27. Photo Credits continued
Slide # Title & Author
17 “One of America's new warships of the air, a mighty YB-17 bomber…”
by Library of Congress
18 “Failwhale Desktop” by PJ for President
19 Various sources on Flickr
20 “Three Rivers Petroglyph Site 7/7” by Richard Johnson, a.k.a.
rovingmagpie on Flickr
21 “Interviewing an Hysterical Witness to the Marachino Cherry Murder”
by ricko
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28. Thank You!
Sadie Van Buren
svanburen[at]kmainc.com
Blog
http://amatterofdegree.typepad.com/a_matter_of_degree/
Del.icio.us
http://del.icio.us/sadalit
Twitter
http://twitter.com/Sadalit
Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sadalit/
Blip
http://blip.fm/sadalit
Also LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace…
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