LinkedIn can help individuals stay connected to the professional community and learn more about organizations that interest them. It is a site that is used by individuals, groups, and organizations all over the world. Linkedin was established in 2003 and continues to grow and assist organizations in reaching new horizons through professional social networking. LinkedIn operates the world’s largest professional network on the Internet with more than 175 million members in over 200 countries and territories ("LinkedIn", 2012). Servicing so many professionals from so many parts of the world, LinkedIn has to be available in various languages to suite everyone's needs.
Honeywell has significantly employed this tool in its adventure of becoming the leading firm in the engineering services provision. Ideally, the firm has developed a corporate I.T team that enhances collaboration and knowledge sharing among its over one hundred and twenty thousand global work force (Meetup, 1). The use of Facebook and twitter has significantly improved efficiency, enhanced productivity and improved sharing of knowledge (Meetup, 1). All these are significant facets of Honeywell’s corporate strategy. Ideally, social networks have become Honeywell’s corporate intranet enhancing improvement of flow of work as well as provision of a framework for alliance of ideas.
You can communicate not just across cities, or countries, but also across international boarders. Email is an ever-growing tool in the business industry because it’s a quick, efficient and cheap way of communicating with customers, as well as those within the organisation itself. You can reach people directly without having to go through 3 other people first. Emails can be sent to large groups of people within seconds. A memo used to take up to a week to send, and involved over a dozen steps, now it can be done in a matter
September 06, 2012 Discourse Communities Just as the times have changed so have the ways in which we communicate with one another. Now and days we can communicate with several people at once in many different ways thanks to the advancements in technology. We can send and read e mails, texts messages, and even update our status on our favorite social networks in seconds. Which makes communicating information with in discourse communities a lot easier. My first discourse community is my fraternity.
And they have been quite successful, growing from revenues of $1.3 billion in 1994 to $12.2 billion in 1999, and their stock is up more than 2,300% in the same time period. In order to fuel the explosive growth, Cisco executes a business strategy of acquiring companies to complement their core strengths. As of October 1999, Cisco had acquired 43 companies (the latest was just hours before this case was written) in fields related to their goal: Be the biggest supplier of equipment needed to build, run, and manage the Internet. The acquisitions provided Cisco with immediate infrastructure, technology, and smart people. John Chambers, the CEO and President of Cisco since 1991, described his strategy to Business Week magazine as, [Mergers and acquisitions] are a requirement, given how rapidly customer expectations change.
both the advantages and disadvantages of allowing employees to have access to the social networking sites during working hours. Information resource and Fast communication medium It is believed that most of the very successful businesses have the best and fast communication mediums. These forms of communication devices allow employees to surf the internet a high speeds allowing them access to information that in one way or another assists them in solving some of their work problems. Also their access to some social networks e.g. LinkedIn may help them meet new professionals form different fields who can assist them in solving some problems.
Today over 250 billion tweets are being posted daily. This has made Twitter, an important repository for data analysis and mining of opinion, moods and views of socially interested people. Twitter has become an important place for most of the companies to promote their brands. Monitoring of these messages helps them to understand the constant changing needs of people and views about products features and services. Today many reality TV shows use these tweets to get the feed back.
Searching engine is one of modern technologies that allow an individual to research other citizens’ private data. Within few years, Google becomes the most popular search engine which has been used all around the world. The name of Google has become a verb meaning to conduct a Web search. “Recently, Google began combining user data gathered from more than sixty Google products and services—including Google search—to create a single, comprehensive profile for each user.” (Search engine privacy, Mar. 9, 2012 ) According to Google’s self-stated mission: “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”, (Barbara Farfan, About.com Guide).
The Pros and Cons of Social Networking Nowadays the internet provides us with a wide range of services, as not only does it constitute a source of information, but it is also an effective means of communication. As one of the tools that the net has to offer, social networks came to be known as online communities. When the time comes to use this tool, it can be perceived that there is both a positive and a negative side to social networking. To begin with, social networking presents a number of advantages for both internet users and companies. Firstly, these networks allow its users to get in touch with others.
There almost not a place one can go without the Internet being there and being used in some way. It’s always in people’s faces with the growing popularity of smartphones and tablets. Pretty much everyone has one on him or her at all times. Someone can sit at a public place like a coffee shop or a college and see people texting, facebooking and tweeting. It has become a part of people’s daily lives.