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Social Knowledge: Using Social Media to Know What You Know
A book edited by:
John P. Girard, Minot State University, USA
JoAnn L. Girard, Sagology, USA
To be published by IGI Global:
http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=613
Proposals Submission Deadline:
July
31, 2009
Full Chapters
Due: September 30, 2009
Introduction
For the past two decades, executives have struggled to develop
effective ways of sharing what their organizations know.
Organizational leaders are now seeking ways to share knowledge with
both internal and external stakeholders driven by concerns such as
downsizing, the impending retirement of baby boomers, terrorism, and
a host of other organizational challenges. Despite the best efforts
of many innovative leaders, few organizations have achieved the
desired level of knowledge sharing. This is certainly not due to a
lack of energy, enthusiasm, or excitement on the part of managers,
but rather the result of immature, complicated, and expensive tools,
techniques, and technologies. Equally, a culture based on a
need-to-know rather than one based on a need-to-share
prevented the transparency necessary to achieve organizational
knowledge goals.
Today we are
seeing some very promising results from third-generation knowledge
projects, which focus on connecting people and facilitating
collaboration. Many organizations are now reaping the benefits of
using social media such as wikis for collaboration and social
networking tools for connecting people. These emerging tools and
techniques provide flexible, agile, and intuitive solutions for
connecting people with people and facilitating coordination,
communication, and collaboration.
Almost
certainly, there will be some debate about the exact meaning of this
term Social Knowledge – the following definition is provided
to begin the debate:
Social
Knowledge is the use of social media to create, transfer, and
preserve organizational knowledge – past, present, and future – with
a view to achieving the organizational vision.
The Overall Objective of the Book
In the fields of management, information studies, information
systems, psychology etc., there exists a need for an edited
collection of articles in the area of social knowledge. The book
aims to provide relevant theoretical frameworks, latest empirical
research findings, and practitioners’ best practices in the area.
The book will be multidisciplinary in nature and will consider a
wide range of topics, each of which is related to social knowledge.
It is written for professionals who want to improve their
understanding of the strategic role of social knowledge in business,
government, or non-profit sectors.
The Target Audience
Professionals and researchers working
in the field of knowledge management in various disciplines, e.g.
library, information and communication sciences, administrative
sciences and management, education, adult education, sociology,
computer science, information technology. Moreover, the book will
provide insights and support executives concerned with the
management of expertise, knowledge, information and organizational
development in different types of work communities and environments.
Recommended topics include, but
are not limited to, the following:
Social knowledge models
Defining social knowledge
Cross-generational social
knowledge techniques
Measuring social knowledge success
Technology to support social knowledge
Organizational cultural considerations
Future Technologies
Generational differences
Future value of social knowledge
Barriers to social knowledge
Multinational, multilingual considerations
Best practices in social knowledge
Social knowledge preservation techniques
Historical perspectives of social knowledge
Real-world case studies
Researchers and practitioners are invited to
submit on or before
July 31, 2009, a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining
the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of
accepted proposals will be notified by
August 15, 2009 about
the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational
guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by
September 30, 2009.
All submitted chapters will undergo a double-blind peer review after
which authors will receive feedback on their submissions by
December 15, 2009.
Final chapters are expected by
January 31, 2010.
The book is scheduled to be published in 2010 (second half)
by IGI Global, www.igi-global.com,
publisher of the IGI Publishing (formerly Idea Group Publishing),
Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing and
Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference)
imprints.
Important Dates
July 31, 2009: Proposal Submission Deadline
August 15, 2009: Notification of Acceptance
September 30, 2009: Full Chapter Submission
December 15, 2009: Review Results Returned
January 31, 2010: Final Chapter Submission
Inquiries and
submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document
preferred) to:
John P.
Girard, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of
Management
Minot State University
Minot, ND 58707
Telephone: 701-858-3194
E-mail:
john@johngirard.net
JoAnn Girard
Managaing Director
Sagology
Minot, ND 58703
E-mail:
joann@sagology.com
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