Social Technology: An oxymoron?

During a breakout session at the Social Entrepreneurship Summit, an interesting dialogue about connectedness, more specifically social technology, got the table riled up. The discussion seemed to break buy twitter followers into two camps (as most interesting discussions do): Team “the human touch” representing one side and, in the opposing corner, team “technology.” Albeit simplified categories, this division served as the underlying counterpoint.The question focussed more or less on how social entrepreneurs go about developing their base of resources, their audience and their market. The discussion opened with: “What is the role of social technology?” There was a palpable silence, with participants gathering their thoughts but hesitant to take the first stab at the answer.Then, the ice broke: “I don’t think this is a technology-thing. I think the strength in connections is the person-to-person, colleague-to-colleague, neighbour-to-neighbour encounters.”Teammate: “I agree. I think it’s those meetings as well as the connections that people make with others. Going on the notion of ‘weak ties,’ the potential in any given room is amazing.”

Social Technology Takes Innovation to a New Level - Webinar

The most innovative companies have best practices, processes, and cutting-edge technology in place to make innovation more repeatable and efficient. Social technology lets humans share, feel included, feel inspired, and buy arabic twitter followers be recognized for their contributions. It also allows companies to accelerate their end-to-end innovation process, make it repeatable and measure the real business value. The key is to build a culture where open innovation is part of everyone’s daily workflow – no matter where they work.Join Alan Lepofsky, Vice President & Principal Analyst with Constellation Research, and Chris Keyes, Director of Product Development with NewsGator, as they discuss the power of using social technology to take your innovation process to the next level. The webinar will conclude with a demonstration of NewsGator’s new end-to-end Innovation Solution - a natural extension to our enterprise social platform, Social Sites – and how NewsGator uses this solution internally to be a more agile, innovative software company.

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With joy, we would like to introduce you to some of our guests who will be part of the programme during the International Week. From now on we will post these introductions weekly. So keep checking in for the latest buy twitter followers usa updates!What do you think is the most common reason for the Child Welfare services to remove a child from his parents? That’s right, protection! Miss Berge will show her Master thesis, a moving documentary film of Children’s experiences of participation and being listened to during removals by the Child Welfare services. As a follow up to the documentary professional identity and communication in difficult situations, such as the above, will be discussed.Just hearing about social technology is not enough. You have to experience the tension between the benefits and pitfalls of those technologies yourself. How far can we go? How far do we allow ourselves to go? Together we will try to answer these questions. But not without first-hand experience with social technology…