【资料名称】：Social Networking for Business: Choosing the Right Tools and Resources to Fit Your Needs
【资料作者】：Rawn Shah
  (Author)
【资料来源】：Wharton School Publishing; 1 edition【资源格式】: PDF
【页数】：192 pages
【出版时间】: January 23, 2010
【发表原因】: 论坛首发，搜索无重复
【简介及目录】：
Product DescriptionThe First Best-Practice Guide to Executing Any Type of Social Computing Project

Organizations today aren’t just participating in social networking, collaborative computing, and online communities--they are depending on those communities to play crucially important roles in their business. But these collaborative environments don’t just manage themselves: To succeed, they must be guided and nurtured carefully, actively, and intelligently.

In Social Networking for Business, Rawn Shah brings together patterns and best practices drawn from his extensive experience managing worldwide online communities at IBM and participating in social networking on the Internet. Drawing on multiple real-world examples, Shah identifies key success factors associated with launching social networking projects to meet business objectives and guides you through managing the crucial “micro-challenges” you’ll face in keeping them vibrant.

•   From mega-trends to micro-issues
    Mastering both high-level strategy and day-to-day, ground-level management

•   Defining the social experience you want to provide to your community
    Clarifying how members can join together and collaborate on collective tasks

•   Focusing on the crucial human factors
    Building a culture of engagement in deeper collaborative relationships

•   Promoting effective leadership and governance
    Setting ground rules that work appropriately for the situation, without “oppression”

•   Building the skills to manage and measure your collaborative project
    Discovering the skills necessary to effectively lead computing projects



About the AuthorRawn Shah is best practices lead in the Social Software Enablement team in IBM Software Group, helping to bring the worldwide population of more than 350,000 IBMers closer together and to improve their productivity through social software. His job involves investigating the wide range of social computing technologies, collecting best practices, measuring the usage and behavior of social software as it impacts productivity, and advising on implementation, governance, and operations.

In his prior job as community program manager for IBM developerWorks, he led a team of operations and development staff covering the worldwide network of thousands of communities, blogs, wikis, and social computing environments supported by IBM. He also led the creation of the developerWorks spaces software tool, a multitenant system to allow individuals and teams to bring many social tools together into their own focused social environments.

An avid software gamer, he has been involved in the online gaming world since 1990, both as a player, a guild leader, and hosting massively multiplayer games. He has witnessed how these social environments have grown from underground curiosities to the billion-dollar businesses of today, with the nature of social grouping and collaboration evolving hand in hand with every new offering.

He has previously served as network administrator, systems programmer, Web project manager, entrepreneur, author, technology writer, and editor in different business environments: as a sole proprietor, in a small startup, and in a Fortune 50 company. He has contributed to six other books, the most recent being the category-leading Service Oriented Architecture Compass, which since has been translated into four languages. His nearly 300 article contributions to technical periodicals such as JavaWorld, LinuxWorld, CNN.com, SunWorld, Advanced Systems, and Windows NT World Japan, covered a wide range of topics from software development to network environments to consumer electronics.