Role of Social Media in Knowledge Sharing

In the modern world people operate their businesses and practically live their lives through the Internet, the use of social media, and easily obtainable information. Although easy access to nearly everything and everyone has many advantages, there are plenty disadvantages that accompany social media and easily obtainable information. If the world only knew how becoming aware of the rewards and drawbacks of social media and the ability to access information with ease people may change how they practice and consume it, especially when understanding the need to further question the reliability of their sources. It is important to understand the advantages,

Document collaboration capability allowing the retrieval, editing, and updating of documents and information in near real time, provide some form of version control, and eliminate the need to email documents between

When people think about published works, the first things that shoots to mind are books or magazines. Published works are a lot more than that. They can but aren’t limited to computers, iPhones, iPads, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, etc. When people aren’t careful about what they publish anywhere, that’s a form of negligent publishing.

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•Create a digital, file sharing environment•Keep sensitive data stored securelyThe outcome will be a highly automated information system that is accessible or integrated with Riordan's existing data. Equally important are the current business functions that may be affected. The current method that the branch offices use to store employee files may need revising. Although some level of training will be required, the transition to the new application will cause minimal disruption and a solid support system is mandatory to our final design selection.

As a general rule, if an employee did not create the material, does not own the rights to it or has not gotten authorization for its use, it should not be put on the Internet.

Has concern with sharing information, citing intellectual property. Product image is not quality but more commodity-based.

The way that individuals and businesses communicate and interact has radically changed. With the development of technology and the internet, people can connect almost instantaneously and with very little effort. Social media has come to play a huge part in the way that the world communicates with each other. In fact, a recent report shows that in a single month people spend over 25 hours on social networks (“The Digital Consumer”). With consumers committing that much time to social media sites, social networking has become an important aspect of everyday life for individuals—and businesses. Like most marketing activities, social media marketing poses some risk. However, it is advantageous for businesses to exploit this opportunity, and develop an effective and ethical marketing strategy that includes using social media as a marketing tool.

We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with

Google Docs is pretty much where we all go if we want to write a document online and share it for everyone to see. This is convenient for all those employees working on one project. Dropbox basically has the same feature. If in Google Docs, you can share your document to other users and decide whether to give them a view-only power or a license to edit the whole document, Paper also allows you to add what it calls collaborators.

The use of SharePoint® as a document and process control system is in high demand. Apparently, according to AIIM, while 60% of organizations are storing their confidential documents in SharePoint®, 12% are storing secret, and 4% top secret documents.

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In today’s information based world, there is a neck-to-neck competition between the current as well as emerging social networking sites. Social media is no longer limited in its features, but instead consists of multi-functional features. Therefore, social media has become universally adapted phenomenon, especially with the readily available Internet services as well as mobile devices. The outcome of this trend has improved the marketing strategies, created an easy online communication platform, expedited the process for sharing information, reduced the cost spent on marketing, and above all provided a medium to collaborate on a global scale. In this digital age, social media comes in various shapes and forms that have almost became the cultural niche are: YouTube, Facebook, Yelp, LinkedIn, Twitter, Tumblr, and Pinterest. Let alone for Facebook, in 2014 there were over billion active users (Stříteský, Stránská, & Drábik, 2015). However, as per the future claims made by Wilson (2014), it is predicted that in the upcoming years social media such as “Pinterest will emerge as a stronger alternative to Facebook”, which seems inaccurate.

Groundswell is a book that focuses on the power of social media and how businesses have to learn to harness this power to remain competitive. The book is full of practical ideas of how the groundswell works, why it is so important in today’s business world and how to use it to maximize your marketing potential. The book gives examples of how some well known companies use social networks, blogs and other online platforms to learn how customers feel about their products and also provides explicit tactics to guide companies in using the groundswell in their own businesses. I think this is a great book if you are just beginning to think about how to use digital media for your business or if you are trying to learn how to connect people with social technology. It is not a difficult read as it explains concepts and ideas in a simple and direct way. The groundswell gave me a good perspective and firm knowledge base on the untapped potential of social networks.

Whether a healthcare organization is supports unions or is against them, it should have a policy on unionism, and this policy should be communicated to its employees. Fried and Fottler (2015) explain that a positive labor-management relationship begins with this policy. A unionization policy will often include policies concerning wages, benefits, hours and conditions of employment, which Gamble (2011) says are the most common reasons for unionization. With clear policies and procedures regarding unionization, an employee can find the information they need regarding the most common reasons for unionization and proceed through the correct channels for change. A policy also shows that management understands that each employee is important and deserves respect and that time and thought goes into employee relations (Fried and Fottler, 2015). An employee can also see and understand the implications of unionization with a clearly outlined unionization policy (Gamble, 2011).