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The potential for social networking tools to connect huge numbers of people has been clearly illustrated. Companies want to harness that power themselves, and not just for marketing or recruitment, but also for internal communications and collaboration
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the need to locate expertise within companies whose employees are dispersed across many locations and time zones,
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on 2009-06-24 by willrich
Change that from companies to networks and you have the same need in personal learning.
One of the most important things within IBM is finding expertise
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on 2009-06-24 by willrich
Same here, right?
But Blue Pages is not just a way to find people by keyword, it is also a way to research a particular person or subject area, by pulling together blog posts, bookmarks (saved in a Del.icio.us-like social bookmarking application called Dogear), and documents related to that person or subject tag. This gives the searcher not just a good overview of how someone describes themselves, but how they are defined by others, and by their own actions and interests.
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on 2009-06-24 by willrich
Really interesting how they pull this together. Wonder if there is such an aggregation software out there for us normal folks, pulling all the tags together on a particular person from which we can assess expertise, and "how they are defined by others." That is a crucial piece of this.
These interconnections are also described in a graphical view which shows how people are linked together, and thus who to approach for an introduction to required expertise. Social network mapping exposes the network's structure, so it's easy to see who is best connected in a given community.
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