1. Social Networking & Business
Week 11

2. Lateral Thinking Puzzle
“A black man dressed all in black, wearing a black mask, stands at a crossroads in a totally black-painted town. All of the streetlights in town are broken. There is no moon. A black-painted car without headlights drives straight toward him, but turns in time and doesn't hit him.”
ITEC333 Fall07

3. Housekeeping
Bring Your Phones!
Mobile Photo Safari next week

4. Micro-Blogging
“…creates a unit of content even smaller…than the individual blog entry.”

5. What are you doing now?
“Twitter is a new social web-based application that allows to tell your friends what you’re doing at any given moment, and for you to read what your friends are doing at any given moment. It is text-based, and you can only have 140 characters in each “tweet”, as it’s called by its makers. I know this sounds weird probably, or perhaps invasive, but, it’s completely voluntary and what you divulge is your business.”

6. “What are you doing now?”
“The thing about IM is that when someone IMs you, you are kind of obligated to answer them. Either that or consciously ignore them. With twitter, you have all your friends doing this and that, and you can notice it or not, and respond or not.”
Links
Video Discussion:

7. Micro-blogging and Virtual Teams?
“The way I see Twitter is kind of like setting up a virtual shared office space where you and all your friends are going to work, hang out, etc. It’s kind of like background noise. You notice these trivial things people are doing just like you notice Jim from accounting brought back Indian food for lunch.”

8. LAB Time: Twitter Part 1 (Activities 1, 2, and 3)
Photo © Charles Darwin University 2005

9. “Back Channel”
You have my permission

10. Blog Talk

13. Virtual Teams
Common Challenges

14. Common Challenges “Contextual” Information
Holidays (
Timezones (
Topography
Based on Research in “Finding Common Ground in Dispersed Collaboration” by C. Crampton

15. Common Challenges Uneven Distribution of Information
didn’t go out
to similar (wrong) address
Erroneously addressed
“lost in transit”
sent to part of group
Later assume sent to all members of group
Based on Research in “Finding Common Ground in Dispersed Collaboration” by C. Crampton

16. Common Challenges Differences in “What is Important”
Long to multiple people
Use of “reply” with new topics
Lengthy dialogue with information buried in chain
Based on Research in “Finding Common Ground in Dispersed Collaboration” by C. Crampton

17. Common Challenges Uncertainty: the Meaning of Silence I agree
I strongly disagree
I am indifferent
I am out of town
I am having technical problems
I don’t know how to address this sensitive issue
I am busy with other things
I did not notice your question
I did not realize you wanted a response
Based on Research in “Finding Common Ground in Dispersed Collaboration” by C. Crampton

18. Gaffs
The Dreaded Auto-Fill
“BCC” = Be Careful

19. Cartoon © http://virtualclinics.net/Cartoon%20Mouth.jpg
Class Discussion
Cartoon ©

20. Hands-On: “Broken Squares”
Photo © Charles Darwin University 2005

21. Rules: No member may speak
Each of you has an envelope that contains pieces of heavy paper for forming squares.
The task of your group is to form five squares of equal size.
The task will not be completed until each individual has before him a perfect square of the same size as those in front of the other group members.
Rules:
No member may speak
No member may ask another member for a piece or in any way signal that another person is to give him a piece (members may voluntarily give pieces to other members).

22. Cartoon © http://virtualclinics.net/Cartoon%20Mouth.jpg
Class Discussion
How did you feel as an individual?
What were the different interactions?
What caused the frustrations?
How did you feel as a team?
What are the similarities to working virtually?
Cartoon ©

23. Visualization Popularity Maps Moods http://twitterholic.com/
Maps
Moods

25. Wordle.com

26. “14 Days of Twitter”

27. 14 Days of Twitter No Blogging (yeah!) Minimum 3 Tweets per day
Tweeting instead (boo)
Minimum 3 Tweets per day
Tweets related to Assignment 3
Tweets related to weekly reading
Tweets related to other course topics
Additional tweets = random thoughts

28. 14 Days of Twitter Use Tags @reply replaces comments
#{group delicious tag} for Assignment 3
#335mobile for first week reading
#335politics for second week reading
@reply replaces comments
4 replies over 2 week twitter period
Final blog comment grading period
Last week through today (1st week)
Nov 19 through Dec 03 (2nd week)

29. LAB Time: Twitter Part 2 (Activities 4 & 5. Optional 6 & 7)
Photo © Charles Darwin University 2005