Social Networking
Top Employee Skills Soon to Include Community Engagement
Dion Hinchcliffe from ZDNet has an interesting post out about communities in the enterprise. It’s really almost two posts in one, with the title seeming a bit misleading until you get to the end. He does discuss platforms (and yes, Drupal is high on the list) but what was much more interesting was his discussion of how expertise in forming online communities may soon become a cornerstone skill for employees.
What Makes an Online Social Network?
Social networking is not a new term, nor has it been widely applied to websites for more than a few years, yet it has clearly become one of the biggest buzz phrases of the Web 2.0 era. Nonetheless a great deal of confusion exists about just what makes a particular site an online social network. Of course, there's more than one answer, but most of us know this type of site when we see one, so clearly there are some common features that must be easy to recognize.
According to Wikipedia (in many ways an online social network in its own right):
