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Is Social Technology Changing The Way We Work?

1 July 2009 41 views No Comment

It is harder to hide in your cubicle and it should be. Social Technology includes old technologies such as the postal system and other means of interpersonal communication which long predate telephones, computer networks or social networking tools. Its adoption increased tremendously this year. Three in four US online adults now use social tools to connect with each other compared with just 56% in 2007. Social Technology continues this evolution in the same direction, from content management to relationship management to now, social management. Not only are even deeper user to brand interactions supported, but user to user interactions as well.

Social Technology represents helpful tools, but in and of itself cannot ensure a truly authentic voice. Can it be true that we can only be authentic because of new technology? It has evolved along a remarkable course over the past few years the advent of computer networks has pushed this evolution along dramatically. Thousands of tools have emerged, with some finding remarkable success and the ability to affect email, instant messenger, blogs. Social Technologies and cool apps just make it easier of all leaders to participate.

Social Media Technology is just a natural fit to the main trends in society and technology. So to assume that my peers are by in large clueless ignores the fact that my generation invented all this stuff and we’ve been embracing it all along.

Social Technology is technology for social purposes and includes everything that we know how to do to make society run, plus what we are developing for the same purpose. It includes personal communications devices such as cellphones, which help to tie together society by facilitating communication, just as the old landline telephone system did, starting a century ago. Social Technology is allowing radio broadcasts to expand their conversations as people engage online while listening or even while not listening. Smart stations are engaging with their audiences through multiple platforms.

Technology And Social Change the way we work, the way we live and my interest is in the conversation around the best elements of those changes. Technology makes it more fun and more profitable to live and work close to the people who matter most to your life and work. Harvard economist Ed Glaeser, an expert on city economies, argues that communications technology and face to face interactions are complements like salt and pepper, rather than substitutes like butter and margarine.

Author Christopher West, In reading the article about this subject I hope you have expanded your knowledge.

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