Social Networks, Community of Practice, and Personal Learning Networks

 
                    

                                                            Social Networking

      Social Networking is the practice of expanding the number of one's business and/or social contacts by making connection through individuals, often though social media sites such as: Facebook, Twitter, LinKedIn, Google+

        Based on the six degrees of separation which is the theory that any person on the planet can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances that has no more than five intermediaries, social networking establishes interconnected online communities (sometimes known as social graphs) that help people make contacts that would be good for them to know, but that they would be unlikely to have met otherwise.

        Depending of the social media platform such as. Forums, micro blogging, social networking, social bookmarking, social curation and wikis, members may be able to contact any other member. In other cases members can contact anyone they have a connection to, and subsequently anyone that contact has a connection to, and so on. Some services require members to have a preexisting connection to contact other members.

        While social networking has gone on almost as long as societies themselves have existed, the unparalleled potential of the Web to facilitate such connections has led to an exponential and ongoing

expansion of that phenomenon. In addition to social media platforms, the capacity for social interaction and collaboration is increasingly built into business applications.

                                                              Collaboration

          In the enterprise, the ability to collaborate and communicate is increasingly becoming essential to business applications. Enterprise collaboration may encompass the use of collaboration platform, enterprise social networking tools, a corporate intranet and the public internet.

          For example Cloud Collaboration allows employees to work together on documents on their data type that are store off-premises and outside of the company firewall. Employees  used a
cloud-based platform to share, edit and work together on projects. Cloud collaboration enables two or more people to work on a project at once.

References:
Whatls.com. Posted by: Margaret Rose (July, 2017)
Retrieved from:
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/social-networking

The Top Social Networking Sites  People Are Using. Elise Moreau (July 5, 2017) Retrieved from:

https://www.lifewire.com/top-social-networking-sites-people-are-using-3486554

The Most Interesting Social Networks. Socialbakers blog. (August 29, 2012) Retrieved from:

https://www.socialbakers.com/blog/808-article-the-20-most-interesting-social-networks

                                      

                                      


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