Designing for Schadenfreude (or, how to express well-being and see if you're boring people)

This position paper presents two studies of content not normally expressed in status updates—well-being and status feedback—and considers how they may be processed, valued and used for potential quality-of-life benefits in terms of personal and social reflection and awareness. Do I Tweet Good? (poor grammar intentional) is a site investigating more nuanced forms of status feedback than current microblogging sites allow, towards understanding self-identity, reflection, and online perception. Healthii is a tool for sharing physical and emotional well-being via status updates, investigating concepts of self-reflection and social awareness. Together, these projects consider furthering the value of microblogging on two fronts: 1) refining the online personal/social networking experience, and 2) using the status update for enhancing the personal/social experience in the offline world, and considering how to leverage that online/offline split. We offer results from two different methods of study and target groups—one co-workers in an academic setting, the other followers on Twitter—to consider how microblogging can become more than just a communication medium if it facilitates these types of reflective practice

Learning with Knowledge Sharing in Social Networks

Working in the digitally networked world has become more complex and dynamic. We need new ways of learning in order to adapt information and knowledge surrounding us. Our information seeking and media habits are relying heavily on web-supported services. Informal and networked work has become as important as the formal work. Social media has become the center of communities where projects, learning, collaboration, information sharing and training are created. Social media engages employees to capture and share knowledge in ways that has not been possible before with formal learning. Web has also become a learning environment where understanding is socially shared. The place where learning is shared also creates usually new knowledge. Knowledge creation in organization can be seen as a continuous and dynamic process, where tacit knowledge is the most valuable competitive asset of an organization. Social web enables new ways of learning and knowledge creation for the entire organization and future employee generations. The main goal of this research is to research how quality criteria of learning in social network is achieved and potentially adapted to organizations. Learning in a company has shifted more towards situated learning were communication cannot be necessary done physically between employees. The benefits of using online learning are for example increased access, more learner centralized processes, better decision-making and cost-effectiveness. New technologies and the need for globalization are quickly making distributed communities of practice a standard practice of a learning organization. Online communities have become global and the physical distance between community learners is not that crucial anymore. The focus of this research is to find out how an organization uses social media in their internal learning purposes like keeping up to date with industry, organizational networking, team collaboration and social training. Online communities with social networking can be seen as modern day communities of practice. Social networking provides multiple ways of collaborating in synchronous and asynchronous processes. It supports keeping information current, creates systems that support updates and sharing of collective perspectives. Emerging web technologies in communities allow us to create dialogues inside and outside the community. Google+ social networking service is one of the few social networking services that support versatile communications and potentially variety different learning ways. Google has been the most dominant player of the most popular Internet services. Google+ is a new social networking service, which provides a variety of tools for collaboration, good usability, and different connections methods with a social environment. It also builds a network where knowledge sharing is easily encouraged between users and groups of people. The amount of information is overwhelming for individual learners to adopt and process. For information seeking, problem solving and understanding complexity we need collaborative tools to support our ways of learning. Lack of recognizing the change in learning and learning environments can lead to bad decisions and inefficient processes. Online learning can enable and make information spread effectively by recommendations, automatic preferences, community tools and information filters. All of the above help learners to focus on the most crucial and specified information needed for succeeding in every day work. Social networking for learning purposes and its internal organizational use has been used and researched limitedly. This research seeks to apply a conceptual framework of learning organization concept. After describing the concept I will qualitatively test Google + social network’s suitability for supporting learning in organizational setting and draw an assessment based on these results. This thesis work is an interdisciplinary research representing theories and practices from pedagogy, psychology, sociology, economics and technology

International perspectives on social media guidance for nurses: a content analysis

Aim: This article reports the results of an analysis of the content of national and international professional guidance on social media for the nursing profession. The aim was to consolidate good practice examples of social media guidelines, and inform the development of comprehensive guidance. Method: A scoping search of professional nursing bodies’ and organisations’ social media guidance documents was undertaken using google search. Results: 34 guidance documents were located, and a content analysis of these was conducted. Conclusion: The results, combined with a review of competency hearings and literature, indicate that guidance should cover the context of social media, and support nurses to navigate and negotiate the differences between the real and online domains to help them translate awareness into actions

Semantics, sensors, and the social web: The live social semantics experiments

The Live Social Semantics is an innovative application that encourages and guides social networking between researchers at conferences and similar events. The application integrates data and technologies from the Semantic Web, online social networks, and a face-to-face contact sensing platform. It helps researchers to find like-minded and influential researchers, to identify and meet people in their community of practice, and to capture and later retrace their real-world networking activities at conferences. The application was successfully deployed at two international conferences, attracting more than 300 users in total. This paper describes this application, and discusses and evaluates the results of its two deployment

Live Social Semantics

Social interactions are one of the key factors to the success of conferences and similar community gatherings. This paper describes a novel application that integrates data from the semantic web, online social networks, and a real-world contact sensing platform. This application was successfully deployed at ESWC09, and actively used by 139 people. Personal profiles of the participants were automatically generated using several Web~2.0 systems and semantic academic data sources, and integrated in real-time with face-to-face contact networks derived from wearable sensors. Integration of all these heterogeneous data layers made it possible to offer various services to conference attendees to enhance their social experience such as visualisation of contact data, and a site to explore and connect with other participants. This paper describes the architecture of the application, the services we provided, and the results we achieved in this deployment

Horizon Report 2009

El informe anual Horizon investiga, identifica y clasifica las tecnologías emergentes que los expertos que lo elaboran prevén tendrán un impacto en la enseñanza aprendizaje, la investigación y la producción creativa en el contexto educativo de la enseñanza superior. También estudia las tendencias clave que permiten prever el uso que se hará de las mismas y los retos que ellos suponen para las aulas. Cada edición identifica seis tecnologías o prácticas. Dos cuyo uso se prevé emergerá en un futuro inmediato (un año o menos) dos que emergerán a medio plazo (en dos o tres años) y dos previstas a más largo plazo (5 años)