Chapter Questions
Define a business network and an enterprise social network.
List various categories of enterprise applications in social networks.
What are the benefits of enterprise social networking for companies? For employees?
Define public business-oriented networks. Provide an example.
What is an entrepreneur network? Provide two examples.
What are the major features and characteristics of effective enterprise social networking?
Describe The Greater IBM Connection and Yammer. What are the similarities? What are the differences?
List all the ways an organization can interface with social networking.
List social networking applications in HRM.
How can social networking facilitate problem solving?
Why is LinkedIn so useful for job seekers and for employers? List the specific tools provided to job seekers. List the specific tools provided to recruiters.
Relate social networking to knowledge management.
Describe online advisory services.
Relate social networks to providing advice.
Define crowdsourcing; provide four examples.
List Howe's four categories of applications of crowdsourcing.
What are the major benefits of crowdsourcing?
Describe the crowdsourcing process.
List some issues and concerns regarding crowdsourcing implementation.
Describe the tools provided by Kickstarter and Hypios.
Define social collaboration.
List and describe briefly the major benefits of social collaboration.
List several social collaboration tools.
Describe The Greater IBM Connection (see ibm.com/ ibm/greateribm/).