Social search is resurfacing as a hot topic of late , due to how effective Twitter has become in helping you find information, and how it is close to how we source information in the offline world (via our network). From a particular perspective, the search experience is broken into three aspects: searching the web, searching within a website, and searching Twitter is being differentiated by being called a “ Help Engine “. I think it’s getting us closer to the KM productivity (sense-making) aim that knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer

The folks over at BrandonHall, the learning folks who blog lots of interesting links, pointed out a value of Twitter that not all of us may have seen yet. Twitter as a search engine. But I never really conceptualized it as search.   This was interesting to me because I’m co-leading a short online workshop introducing social media in a global international development network. The question always comes up “why would we be interested in something like Twitter.

BLOG The Psychology of Twitter Twitter name on your blog, and on your Facebook page, and send it out to just as there are organizational and ghostwritten celebrity blogs, there latest blog posts. Links of the Week blog Twitter OK , let let me start by saying I'm a Twitter user and fan.

web page without links in to it can never be discovered by search engines , nor will people find the page unless directed to it. transfers, to your web page some amount of its authority both with search engines and with Internet users. Links play an key role in search engine optimization . No aspect of the Internet is more critical to understand than hyperlinks or simply links, as we call them. After all, what is the World Wide Web but countless documents which are interconnected by links?

This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on. Electronic Frontier Foundation How to Blog Safely about Work  [link] Harvard Law School Blogs Terms of Use   [link] Managing staff who participate in social networks. I’ve done a few press (radio, print) interviews this week re: Telstra so I thought I should have another look at how Enterprise, Government, Corporates, Not for Profits  are handling the fact that their staff

This is an English draft for the second of two articles I wrote on blogging for Dutch magazine Informatie Professional (the first one – Blogging for knowledge workers: incubating ideas ). Practically everything from the study (including interview summaries ) is covered in my blog and Chapter 5. When I interviewed early adopters of weblogs for my PhD research The Dutch version should appear very soon, but I’m too impatient to wait for it to share the draft :)  I’ll add the reference/link as soon as it’s there. This piece is based on the study

Back in 2006 I called it SMS blogging, but now that’s all changed as the major use is the web and desktop applications (incl. did a search the next day and it seems thousands of people registered a Twitter account because it was mentioned by an influential person on an influential TV show. Perhaps we can compare it to similar tools like blogs, forums, IM, email, Facebook and RSS Readers, as Ross Mayfield has asked ( Mike Gotta My first post on Twitter was back in October 2006, and since then Twitter has come a long way; evolved from the architecture of participation, and the emergence of the platform .

Behind my PhD research is an interest in translating practices of early adopters of weblogs into something that those that come after them might use: an understanding of relative advantage of blogging in knowledge-intensive environments and it’s compatibility with existing practices. Below is another piece from the final chapter of my dissertation, the one where I draw the implications of my findings for an individual knowledge worker, a pragmatist, who wants to know what blogging might bring for him in order to decide if it is worth the effort. [There There is also a piece on facilitating weblog adoption, probably tomorrow]

At work I’m finding our support team often don’t have time to blog about their experiences/solutions, and they don’t seem to be using the forums to ask questions that often. You can also just blog a micro-post, which will not end up in an inbox, or RSS reader. So in this respect microblogging is like SMS/IM, but also like blogging, as your posts don’t have to be A while back I posted about knowledge sharing in your flow of work, and in between your tasks, here are those posts: 7 seconds to knowledge share , 140 characters to knowledge share .

A while back I blogged about the possibility of networks and blogospheres cutting into the need for communities. Stowe Boyd has more on this “ shift ” that may be a big cognitive reason that when it comes to individual learning on a topic, networked sharing is cutting into the ease of learning over CoPs: “Contrasting group forums with blogging is a good example in which to make the distinction between group- and individual-oriented social tools. I believe this is happening a great deal, as now people may have a more purposeful or ideal way of achieving their