Some people still don’t get social computing. It’s certainly not for everyone, but as Maria Murphy recently put it, new online social computing tools can connect you to people, knowledge and information in a way that was never possible before.
Time poor? Don’t have time to catch up with our friends and family? No time for social networking with friends and colleagues? This is a problem for me and everyone I know — but this is where social computing tools can really help by giving you access to your friends, and to their friends, and to their friends’ friends friends.
These tools can give you access to experts and communities of practice that you’d never have in real life. And it is this access to people that means you can hack through the Google-search-results-slosh of information and ask them what they think is important.
Looking for a new car, but don’t know what to buy? Look online at what car enthusiasts, who actually use the car you’re looking at, say about that car. Interested in knowledge management? Read what KM experts like IBM’s Luis Suarez are thinking about and writing about. Need to ask a politician about a policy? Find their blog and have immediate and public access to them by posting a very public comment.
Give these tools a try. They’re for everyone 
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