The Smart Worker’s Guide to Social Media

The revolution that is social media means that everyone now can have access to the Social Web and a range of services and applications to support their own as well as their team’s learning, performance and productivity.

“Social media is not something you talk about it’s something you do!”

So here is an opportunity to find out about a wide range of tools that can help you and your team work smarter. The Guide offers 30 assignments focusing on 4 main areas where social media can help you and your team work and learn.  Each Assignment provides some introductory reading, examples, links to further resources, and a short activity to work on. You can work through the materials in whatever way suits you best – dip in and out, or in a linear fashion.

CONTENTS

A – FINDING AND USING CONTENT ON THE SOCIAL WEB
1 – Search effectively with Google
2 – Use other tools to search the Social Web
3 – Monitor new web content
4 – Keep up-to-date by reading industry blogs
5 – Subscribe to blog and web feeds 		 B – CREATING AND SHARING CONTENT
6 – Sharing weblinks using social bookmarking sites
7 – Sharing photos, videos and screencasts
8 – Sharing presentations
9 – Sharing by blogging
10 – Sharing by podcasting
11 – Working collaboratively on a document – using Google Docs
12 – Collecting input from multiple sources – using Google Docs
13 – Creating a collaborative resource using a wiki
14 – Live text collaboration
C – JOINING & BUILDING NETWORKS & COMMUNITIES
15 -  LinkedIn
16 – Facebook (Part 1)
17 – Facebook (Part 2)
18 – Twitter (Part 1)
19 – Twitter (Part 2)
20 – Google+
21 – Yammer
22 – Other community platforms		 D – IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY
23 – Sharing calendars and scheduling events
24 – Sharing files across computers
25 – Real-time communications
26 – Other team productivity tools
27 – Using an effective browser
28 – Using a personal dashboard
29 – Content curation; dealing with information overload
30 – Other personal productivity tools


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