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Social Networking (social + networking)
Selected AbstractsCreating and Justifying Research and Development Value: Scope, Scale, Skill and Social Networking of R&DCREATIVITY AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT, Issue 1 2002Aard J. Groen In this paper we describe a framework for analysing the creation and justification of Research & Development. The 4S framework is developed for analysing the scope, scale, skills and social network aspects of Research & Development value. The framework is based on social system theory, a process contingency model, and recent Research & Development metrics. We present a first empirical assessment based on a workshop using the 4S framework for leveraging Research & Development. Results that assist in the assessment of value creation utilising R & D within networks are very relevant in high tech industries. The multi,dimensional process approach of this framework seems promising for understanding and managing R&D value creation, but needs further operationalisation. Case studies are described and a Dutch network on leveraging R&D has been initiated. [source] Social networking: Communication revolution or evolution?BELL LABS TECHNICAL JOURNAL, Issue 2 2008Cheryl L. Coyle Social networks and the need to communicate are universal human conditions. A general assumption is that communication technologies help to increase and strengthen social ties. The Internet provides many social networking opportunities. But how do social networking sites affect individual relationships? Do people use social networking sites to expand their personal networks, to find people who have had similar experiences, to discuss a common hobby, for the potential of offline dating? Or, do people spend time on networking sites to deepen their existing personal networks and stay connected to old friends or distant family? What is the nature of the communications that transpire on social networking sites? Is it personal, emotional, private, and important; or trivial, informal, and public? We examined the literature on social networking sites and conducted our own studies of how students on American college campuses engage in social networking. © 2008 Alcatel-Lucent. [source] Making sense of polarities in health organizations for policy and leadershipJOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE, Issue 5 2010Carmel M. Martin MBBS MSc PhD MRCGP FRACGP FAFPHM Abstract Making sense of complex adaptive clinical practice and health systems is a pressing challenge as health services continue to struggle to adapt to changing internal and external constraints. In this Forum, we begin with Dervin's Sense-Making theories and research in communications. This provides a conceptual and theoretical context for this editions research on comparative complexity of family medicine consultations in the USA, models for adaptive leadership in clinical care and social networking to make sense of health promotion challenges for young people. Finally, a Sense-Making schema is proposed. [source] Psychology 2.0: Harnessing social networking, user-generated content, and crowdsourcingJOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES IN ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE, Issue 2 2010Glendon L. Moriarty Psy.D. The goal of Web 2.0 is to work with the World Wide Web rather than against it. That is, it should design services and applications that harness the inherent strengths of the Web rather than create services that view the Web only as an afterthought rather than as a strategic piece of the overall enterprise. This article contrasts Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 and discusses ways that psychologists can harness Web 2.0 trends like crowdsourcing, user-generated content, and social networking. [source] Toward an Ecological CALL: Update to Garrett (1991)MODERN LANGUAGE JOURNAL, Issue 2009BARBARA A. LAFFORD This introduction to the 2009,Modern Language Journal,Focus Issue uses the lens of an ecological perspective on the acquisition of second languages to provide additional insights into the contributions by various computer-assisted language learning (CALL) scholars to this update on Garrett (1991), "Technology in the service of language learning: Trends and issues." After providing a thematic overview of the trends and issues discussed by Garrett (1991, this issue) and the other contributors, I discuss the most salient themes and controversies mentioned by the Focus Issue authors, including CALL and second language acquisition theory, empirical research and CALL, creation and use of CALL materials and technologies, social networking, assessment, the need for teacher training, and professional rewards. This introduction concludes with a section on the future of CALL as an independent field and with a look at future research and practical applications of CALL. [source] Descent with Modification: Bioanthropological Identities in 2009AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 2 2010Julienne Rutherford ABSTRACT, In the year of Darwin, what were the emerging themes and events that united disparate manifestations of bioanthropological identities? In this review, I draw from conference proceedings, the literature, and electronic social networking to assess six major developments in 2009: the bioanthropological legacy of Darwin on the 200th anniversary of his birth; the efforts of primatologists from a multitude of backgrounds to grapple with the construction of a unified ethics; the remediation of philosophical tensions between field and captive primatology; the coalescence of an explicitly comparative evolutionary anthropology; the role of conference attendance and collaborations in forging disciplinary identity; and the provocative implications of the Ardipithecus ramidus story. The field of biological anthropology continues to evolve and diversify, obscuring a common identity, but as in other organic fractal systems, a common origin as anthropologists leads to descent with modification. [source] | ||||||||||