Social Networking

Lauren DegeorgeKyle ElstonJason Bell

o Social Networking is made up of individuals or organizations who are associated by specific types of interdependency such as:FriendshipsFinancial ExchangeDislikesLikesReligious BeliefsEtc.

Social networking is a good form of entertainment, meeting new people with similar interests but also can be a very effective business technique for writers, actors, musicians and all over.

Its not what you know, but who you know A marketing professor William Baker at San Diego State

University surveyed 1,600 executives and found that companies that depend on heavy social networks scored 24% higher on the measure of radical innovation then companies that don’t.

National School Board Association published results of three surveys regarding social networking,

•PROMOTE EDUCATION•POSITIVE ROLE•COLLABORATION•CONNECTI“A true social learning network incorporates innovative pedagogy (study of being a teacher) through internet-connected communities, digital resources, and a series of Web 2.0 tools that empower students to master the curriculum and to learn issues beyond the classroom“

CREATING AN EFFECTIVE CORRICULUMSchools have to plan and organize on how to connect the social and networking part of the process to a curriculum and set standards to improve overall academicsSTUDENT ACCESSSchools need to find a way to limit the amount of access a student has and a way to enforce boundaries. CONCEQUENCES/PUNISHMENTSSchools need to come up with a system of punishments and prior to those a warning system to prevent bad language and cyberbullying

PROMOTION- The government can use social networking to further promote gov’t information and services.

RECRUITING- They can also use these sites to advertise jobs, ask questions, and increase awareness about these jobs.

NASA- actually built its own community building and collaborative workspace site and supports online and offline communities collaborating with them.

GOV’T AGENCIES- EPA created its own Facebook network and has over 750 members from government agencies.

Some careers are directed right at Social networking and developing a relationship with the public and a certain organization. A career that would deal with this would be someone involved with Public Relations.

A Public Relations Consultant helps a business promote themselves in a manner where the public accepts them and is satisfied. Social networking sites are key to any PR Consultant because a majority of promoting the company is happening online.

Communications and Social networking depend on each other to keep a business or organization popular and positive in the public eye. They keep positive attitudes with the consumers of those products so that they become life-long with the company.

Many organizations and businesses have developed social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace, Cyworld and Bebo to promote themselves to the public.

Social networks and the need to communicate are universal human conditions. A general assumption is that communication technologies help to increase and strengthen social ties

Social networking among US broadband users has grown an impressive 93% since 2006, and has increased the amount of time people spend communicating online 18%, to 32% of total online time, according to a new report from Netpop Research from LLC that delves into social networking trends and habits.

Communications is one of the most important aspects to any business or organization.

Social networking is a main part of communications for every organization today. Social networking is a significant part to communications today because it is a large portion of how an organization promotes themselves.

Through social networking the public decides whether the organization is a success or failure.

http://www.bnet.com/2403-13070_23-219914.html

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