Understanding

networked professionals:

insights from weblog research

Lilia Efimova

researching social mediaknowledgelearning changing workplace

blogging @ workincubating ideasnetworking

challenges to deal with

ideas:articulationsense-makingturning into a product

thingsthat do not fitparked in atrusted external repository

everydayinteractivegrounded theory

fragmented bitsshitty first draftsmanageable chunksreal audience

networking:finding and being foundgetting to know from a distancebonding through interactiongetting things donestaying in touch

attractors "a big neon sign that invites others to come

and comment" "there is something special about somebody

coming to your place to leave their words there"

filters peer-filtering and recommendation

living portrait "You can pick up little subliminal or

subconscious or peripheral bits and pieces through what people write, how they write, how their blog looks, how they react to things"

asymmetry "They have a really good sense of who you are,

what you do, what interests you, and you don't even know their name"

comments and links "fragmented frequent conversation" "distributed sense-making networks"

other tools focused, private, vulnerable writing

meeting in person "picking up where we have left it in blogs"

weblog as a "screening device"foundation to work together shared understanding and trust "a feeling that just talking is not enough and

there is a shared need to do something together"

switching to other tools "if you want to set up a meeting you wouldn't

pontificate about life, the universe and such"

reading blogs

other tools microblogging! social networks presence indicators

investing into invisible

dealing with fragments

choosing and managing tools

identity across boundaries

getting help when needed

shaping own workplace

work-life balance

Questions?

Slides and linksblog.mathemagenic.com/2009/11/09/