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Managing the flow of information with social tools Stuart Barr www.highqsolutions.com

Managing the flow of information with social tools

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These days we are bombarded by numerous sources of information in our personal and professional lives, from email to Twitter and intranets to Facebook, all vying for our attention and threatening to disrupt our days. So how do we manage the “flow” of information and make sure these tools work for us and not the other way around? And how can we make use of these tools and the benefits they bring in the enterprise? Read the accompanying article here: http://highqsolutions.com/blog/?p=149

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Managing the flow of information with social toolsStuart Barr

www.highqsolutions.com

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We are bombarded with information

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‣ Email

‣ Intranet

‣ Twitter

‣ Facebook

‣ LinkedIn

‣ etc.

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We are slaves to our inboxes

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‣ Newsletters

‣ Distribution lists

‣ Notifications

‣ “Reply all”

‣ “CC”

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It can make us want to do this

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So, how do we manage the “flow”?

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‣ Channel and filter the information

‣ Ensure it’s relevant and timely

‣ Make the tools work for us

‣ Distribute and consume in smarter ways

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Better content creation

‣ Specialist channels

‣ Personalised feeds

‣ “Disaggregation”

‣ Social tools

‣ Blogs

‣ Twitter

‣ Tags

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Better content distribution

‣ Follow thought leaders

and influencers

‣ Discover breaking news

and hot topics

‣ Use the power of the

network effect

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Better content consumption

‣ Feeds and filters

‣ Microblogging

‣ Subscribe and follow

‣ Pull instead of push

‣ Discover and explore

‣ Groups of interest

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“Consumerisation” of the enterprise

‣ Communicate instantly

‣ Collaborate seamlessly

‣ Current awareness

‣ Discover and share

‣ “Peripheral vision”

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Enterprise collaboration

‣ Activity streams

‣ Personal profiles

‣ Group “spaces”

‣ Wikis

‣ Blogs

‣ File/document sharing

‣ Microblogging

‣ Feeds and filters