How Social Networking can Enable Mission Success: An overview for Project Managers

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How Social Networking Can Enable Mission Success: An Overview of Web 2.0 for Project Managers Emma Antunes February 24, 2009

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Emma Antunes shows the benefits of Social Networking for Project Managers.

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How Social Networking Can Enable Mission Success: An Overview of Web 2.0 for Project Managers

Emma Antunes

February 24, 2009 

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Agenda

• What are social media?

• How do social media relate to mission success?

• Collaboration Tools at NASA

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Why Projects Fail

• Poor Communications

• Fear to Tell the Truth Upward

• Expertise

• Cost / Schedule Constraints

• Ineffective Processes

• Insufficient Risk Mitigation

• Insufficient Training

• Lack of Experience

• Design Errors

• Inefficient / Toxic Working Environment

• Ineffective Leadership

Credit: NASA Academy of Program and Project Leadership 3

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Social Networks

• Social Networks aren’t new• People rely heavily on other people to find information & 

learn how to do their work

• Networks: – Expand our knowledge and increase our circle of influence– Are personal relationships that help keep us informed, 

develop opinions, make decisions, and accomplish work goals. 

– Provide an “enduring infrastructure” for knowledge, learning, and innovation

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Terms: What are we talking about?

• Social Computing

• Social Software

• Social Technology

• Social Networking

• Social Media

• Web 2.0

• Enterprise 2.0

• Government 2.0

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Web 2.0 Definitions

• Social = people

• Driven by user‐created content

• Tools for people to: – Network, Collaborate, Organize & Publish online

• Tools that facilitate:– Communication– Engagement– Transparency– Trust

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Examples 

• Social Publishing & Collaboration 

– Blogs, Wikis

– Broadcast your knowledge

• Social Tagging – Shared bookmarks

– Find/share knowledge

• Social Networking– Friend of a friend networks

– Find people with knowledge7

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Building blocks of Web 2.0

• Applications:– Blogs

– Wikis

– Tagging

– Networking

• Technologies– RSS

– Web Services

– AJAX

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Characteristics

• Intersection between the invisible (what’s on my computer) and the inflexible (like SAP)

• Small, adaptable, modular, connectable

• Never “perfect”– in perpetual beta

• Patterns, processes, affinities, skills, interests and social orders emerge and evolve

• Technologies:– RSS, AJAX, Web Services

• Quintessential Example:– Mashups connect data from one source with visualization from another

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Blogs

• Web Log = “Blog”– Web diary– Personal tone/POV, timely, has an opinion

• Web site w/ articles by one author or group– Usually around a topic or a personality– Entries displayed in chronological order

• Comments & discussion follow articles– Comments may be moderated or not

• Good for:– Time based information– News & status updates

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Blog Example

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Team Blog Example

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Wikis

• Wiki = Hawaiian for “fast” or “quick”• Web site where contributors can edit directly

– Anyone (with edit rights) can modify the site (with tracking)– Web based editing using simplified markup– Version control provided

• Good for:– Topics where group members all have different pieces of information– Specific document collaboration

• Models:– Current working version (comments on discussion page)– Embedded comments in text

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Wiki Example

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Wiki Example

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Tagging

• Tags – keywords– User defined (Folksonomy) as opposed to formal, controlled vocabulary

• Aids search and information discovery

• Typical use:– Social bookmarking

– Photo sharing

• Good for:– Bringing order to the chaos of information overload

– Information sharing between geographically diverse participants

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Social Networking

• Networks for people to communicate and share information

• Uses– Discovery of likeminded people– Maintaining/developing relationships– Strengthening weak ties– Broadcasting questions/news to your network– Energizing your network

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Social Networking

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RSS

• RSS = – Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91)

– RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0)

– Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)

• XML formatted news feed that contains:– Headline

– Summary

– Link to full content

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RSS Example

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Other building blocks

• AJAX– Javascript

– Enables Rich Internet Applications

– Allows applications to update just a piece of a page instead of the whole thing

• Web Services– API for web applications

– Allows other applications to call functions within your application

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Mashup Example

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How does social media relate to mission success? 

Social media is a tool for building teams and strengthening networks.

For free.

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It All Starts With Trust

• Knowledge sharing requires trust– Most useful knowledge comes from trusted weak ties

• 2 types of trust:– Benevolence based

• Based on what others have experienced of your behavior and conduct

– Competence based• Based on what others believe you know

• As trust increases:– Coordination –> Cooperation –> Collaboration

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Benefits of Social Media

• Takes advantage of the information & resources we already have– Harnesses collective intelligence– How many times do we pay consultants to tell us what we already know?

• Encourages collaboration & information sharing – Strengthens weak ties

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Why Projects Fail

• Poor Communications

• Fear to Tell the Truth Upward

• Expertise

• Cost / Schedule Constraints

• Ineffective Processes

• Insufficient Risk Mitigation

• Insufficient Training

• Lack of Experience

• Design Errors

• Inefficient / Toxic Working Environment

• Ineffective Leadership

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• Inreach:– Team Blogs & Wikis

– Social Networking among team members• Twitter, facebook

– Make application API’s available

• Outreach:– RSS!

– Twitter, Facebook, web sites

How do I get started?

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NASA resources

• Agency Resources– https://Inwiki.nasa.gov

• Internal wikis & blogs (part of InsideNASA)

– https://tagconnect.nasa.gov• Social tagging (being piloted by GSFC)

– Other collaboration tools:• NASA Engineering network, ICE portal, PBMA, VSDE, Sharepoint, eRoom

– Coming soon – NASA Spacebook• Social network being developed by GSFC

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Need More Help?

• Centers may have additional resources available

• Contact your Center Web Manager for more information:– ARC Megan Eskey – JSC Marcus Friske

– DFRC Marty Curry – KSC Patrick O'Rourke

– GRC Herb Schilling – LaRC Kay Costulis

– GSFC Emma Antunes – MSFC Rick Serwecki

– HQ Bryan McCall – SSC David Walters

– IVV Joshua Stonestreet – WFF Angela Walker

– JPL Don Cheney

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Questions?

Emma Antunes

GSFC Web Manager

[email protected]

(301) 286‐1377