BTE 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Enterprise Social Networking, Geotagging, Microblogging
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Businesses today are using social computing in a variety of innovative ways: marketing, crm, human resource management. Most of us have presence in social computing arena; goal is to know how could we apply this knowledge to contribute to organizations we belong to/want to start. Social computing (sc) is focused on improving collaboration and interaction among people and on encouraging user-generated content. Users produce, control, use and manage content via interactive communications and collaboration. Sc is facilitated by web 2. 0 tools and sites. First generation of web: focuses on creation and commercialization of the web, web 1. 0 described the web just as a plain library of information. Refers to collection of capabilities, technologies and business models that allow users to engage in practical and powerful activities while creating social connections. Promotes creativity, connectivity, collaboration, convergence and community. As you explore the web, the browser learns your personal interests.