Dr. Kelly Page

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The Social Web: Defining the Undefinable

May 1st, 2012

Over the past few months I’ve been listening to many colleagues, peers, and researchers debate the value of social technologies in work, learning and play … and in this discuss what they “mean” by social media or social technologies and what is or isn’t a social technology. This exercise has a danger of getting caught up with trying to put things into boxes and missing the richness of what is happening in real-time around us – with, through and about the social web. The dynamic interactions, the practices and discourse in our culture that is so important to reflect on.

However, I do agree with many that it is important to have some insight and shared meaning as to what we mean by X or Y. But imagine if we sat down and debated what is knowledge? or What it is not? or What is communication? and What is not communication? I am sure there were once debates as to “What is the printing press and what is not the printing press!” or perhaps not given the differential in both functional and network complexity we are faced with in technological contexts emerging today (I’m hoping my good friend and mentor Dave Harrison has some thoughts on this historical context). As an academic I am always interested in these debates, but I also see that they can also constrain our collaborative practices. » Read more: The Social Web: Defining the Undefinable

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Posted in Digital Social Ways, My Articles, Social Web, Social Web Marketing

Tags: Definition Social Media Social Technologies Social Web Wiley

Who is the Big Bad Wolf in Open Journalism?

March 4th, 2012

Today while reviewing my Tweets and Facebook newsfeed, I came across this video posted to the Facebook profile of a friend. It is a video created by The Guardian, an advertisement for the media companies approach to open journalism. Open journalism describes a form of innovative publishing wherein the new story is a collaboration of digital and Internet-based content and sources, not necessarily from a professional journalist. It is a term akin to citizen or participatory journalism.

The advertisement provides an example of how open journalism with and through digital social technologies could cocreate a news story about The Three Little Pigs, a fairytale first printed in the 1880′s. This is a story many of us maybe familiar with, where the three little pigs act to defend their home from a big bad wolf intruding into their personal social space. » Read more: Who is the Big Bad Wolf in Open Journalism?

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Posted in Digital Social Ways, Open Journalism, Organizational Communications, Sharing, WOM

Tags: Digital Social Skills Digital Social Ways Journalism Open Journalism Recipriocity Sharing

Documentary: Networked Society: On the Brink

February 25th, 2012

This video requires very little introduction. It is an excellent documentary that provides a snapshot insight into how social web technologies, the Internet and smart technologies are changing the way we work, the way we learn and the way we live. A fascinating account of why digital media and its role and effects on our ways of seeing and experiencing the world is so important.

If you think what life was like for you 15 years ago – before the Internet – imagine what it might be like in 15 years time. It is impossible. You can’t. All we can do is be open to change, invest in capabilities that foster adaptability and champion ideas that inspire.

It doesn’t matter how busy you are, this is a 20 minutes you won’t regret spending to watch and share this video.

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Posted in Business Models, Digital Social Ways, Social Web

Tags: Adaptation Aspiration Change Digital Social Ways Future Networked Society

We are all learning! Talk: Sir Ken Robinson on Changing Education

February 23rd, 2012

This is an excellent animated video of a talk by Sir Ken Robinson, education and creativity expert on Changing Education.

What I love about how Sir Ken Robinson discusses Changing Education is he shows clear insight of how through the evolution in innovations and technology of the last few hundred years (if not longer), our behaviour and responses to the world around us has changed in our every day life - in what we do, what we pay attention to, and the internal and collaborative processes we use to learn, adapt and survive in a rapidly changing technological environment. He then contrasts this very eloquently with the view that for what ever reason, the pace of change in how we think about education, learning and formal learning contexts has not changed at the same pace or in the same way. He uses school education to exemplify his point. For me this video also spoke of higher education. » Read more: We are all learning! Talk: Sir Ken Robinson on Changing Education

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Posted in Digital Media Learning, Higher Education, Talks

Tags: Behaviour Change Divergent Thinking Education Higher Education Sir Ken Robinson Social Media Social Web Technology

Social Ways of Working in Higher Education

January 24th, 2012

Currently I sit on a task and finish group discussing the use and future of social technologies in my university. As a result I’ve been reflecting on how we think about the emerging developments in social technologies and their impact on the ways we work in academia. Like many organisations, social technologies are greatly influencing the ways we work in higher education. They are influencing not just our communication activities, but also the activities we do for education and learning, research and administration. In this, all that we do as educators, researchers, students and administrators within the higher education sector is organisational communications or more formally termed: engagement. For example: » Read more: Social Ways of Working in Higher Education

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Posted in Digital Media Learning, Marketing Language, Organizational Communications, Social Web

Tags: Controlling Digital Media Learning Engagement Higher Education Learning Organizational Communications Social Web Work

Is Facebook a Hacker?

December 29th, 2011

This post is inspired by a dear friend on my Facebook profile who commented when I posted this status update:

“With the new ‘FB timeline’ on its way this week for EVERYONE…please do both of us a favour. Hover over my name above. In a few seconds you’ll see a box that says “Subscribed”. Hover over that, go to “Comments and Likes” and unclick it. That will stop my posts and yours to me from showing up on the side bar for everyone to see, but MOST IMPORTANTLY IT LIMITS HACKERS from invading our profiles. If you repost this I will do the same for you. You’ll know I’ve acknowledged you because if you tell me that you’ve done it I”ll ‘like’ it. Thanks”

My friend commented that her friends have shared an article about how the above status update that is circulating is a hoax. She gave me this link to the article on a website called thatsnonsense.com reporting it is a unfounded rumour. Upon read this article, I became aware how myself and the author differ in our understanding of the term hacker. To clarify for my friend I started to write this response in a comment on my status update. Given the length of my response, I’m sharing it here. I responded with the following. » Read more: Is Facebook a Hacker?

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Posted in Access & Usage, Digital Participation, Identity Management

Tags: Comments & Likes Facebook Friends Hacker Hackers Hoax Sharing Unsubscribe

Tanya Saracho – Collaboration Shapes Us!

December 15th, 2011

Who we are is because of who and what we interact with, the experiences we have and the experiences of others close to us. These experiences are both mediated by digital social technologies and are unmediated or face-to-face. In essence, life and living is a series of interactions. It is an ongoing dynamic process of collaboration, social and situational interactions that over time shape who we are, what we do, and how we see the world. Beyond school and for many beyond university, much of who we become is shaped be our world of work and the communication and interactions within that world. Today while reading about the Arts Alliance Illinois, a state initiative to raise the profile of the Arts and Arts Education throughout the state of Illinois, I stumbled upon a video of a talk delivered about the work life story of - Tanya Saracho. A talk in which Tanya explains how collaboration in her workplace shaped her, her voice, the voices of those around her and their creative process which grew into a theatre company. » Read more: Tanya Saracho – Collaboration Shapes Us!

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Posted in Community, Organizational Collaboration, Organizational Communications, People, Talks

Tags: Community Creativity Inspiration Learning Storytelling

Peter Economides – Everything communicates …

December 13th, 2011

Meaning making in this world is a complex interplay of texts, technology and behaviour richly embedded within a social web of personal-professional contexts. Today, I was given a rich reminder of this in the context of branding a country. A graduate student of mine, Panos Dalton Papakostis, posted a video on my Facebook wall. It was titled, ‘Re-branding Greece’ a video of a speech delivered by Peter Economides at the 11th “Aristotelis” Congress of EEDE in Thessaloniki. Peter is a brand strategist at Felix BNI who has worked with a list of leading consumer brands, from Apple to Heineken. My interest in this video is not the rich list of clients that Peter has worked with, nor the list of country-specific brand campaigns he shows as examples from which Greece can learn. Although these pose for interesting learning. My interest is his position and philosophy on a brand and the process of branding. Something many in organisational communications (or interested in meaning or sense making) can learn from. » Read more: Peter Economides – Everything communicates …

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Posted in Branding, Community, People, Social Web, Talks

Tags: Branding Community Controlling Participation Social Web

The Complexities of Digital Participation

December 7th, 2011

Do you remember the days when profiling usage of media technologies was about viewing or readership behaviour – who watched or read what? How long they spent doing this and the differential between media types (broadcast, print), channels, and vehicles. Media viewing behaviour was somewhat complicated, but it was far from the complexity we see today when trying to navigate the ubiquitous and complex world of digital and social media.Considering this change, I’ve often wondered what are the elements managers of digital media channels – be it marketers, communicators, digital media designers or even the owner of a small business or not for profit – consider when evaluating digital media participation for their brand or media channels and social communities. » Read more: The Complexities of Digital Participation