I\u2019ve complained about information overload before.\u00a0 As we get into lists and networks and blogs, and microblogs, we subject ourselves to information from increasingly diverse sources.\u00a0 Some of these are annoying sources that we wish we didn\u2019t have anything to do with (your nephew\u2019s farmville updates on Facebook), while others are truly valuable if you could just keep up with them (that HR analyst that has 50 posts per day on Twitter).<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve also written before that I think that the value I provide will never be on Twitter<\/a> \u2013 I honestly just can\u2019t stay on top of it that often considering the work that I do for clients.\u00a0 However, I do feel that I can provide value to my readership with longer, more thoughtful pieces like this on a more mainstream and \u201ctraditional\u201d blog.\u00a0 Personally, I basically have 4 sources of information and the same 4 sources that I use to connect with the Web 2.0 world<\/a>.\u00a0 These are this blog, systematicHR, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.\u00a0 The first two I use every day, the last two I use very little.<\/p>\n The point of this is that I have decided that it\u2019s impossible to have any sort of a meaningful experience if I\u2019m spread too thin across 10 different networks.\u00a0 Yes, I\u2019m registered on all sorts of social media accounts that I never check.<\/p>\n As an employee, you need to determine what the method is going to be right for you (facebook once a day? twittter 50 times a day?)\u00a0 You also need to figure out what your goals are for participation.\u00a0 Is it about career?\u00a0 Is it about networking? Getting on the cutting edge?\u00a0 Is it about increasing your own personal effectiveness or a team\u2019s effectiveness?<\/p>\n The great thing about information overload is there is a solution,\u00a0 While information overload is problematic for just about everyone, the problem is also the solution.\u00a0 If you have many choices about where to go for information, then you have a more manageable environment.\u00a0 People need to apply their time spent in networks with more thoughtfulness.<\/p>\n This is actually where it gets tricky.\u00a0 We as an HR organization can help employees decipher what type of participation they should be having based on their habits and goals.\u00a0 However, determining the overall set of Web 2.0 technologies to deploy within our organizations that will support the many types of interactions that are possible while not limiting the possibilities is a tight rope to walk.\u00a0 The organization has to determine what the best methods are without restricting too many modes where people will find meaningful experiences.<\/p>\n You might automatically say that microblogging will never happen, but what about microblogging the town hall for people who could not attend the event live?\u00a0 How about the opportunities to constantly update the project team in the week right before a major implementation go-live?\u00a0 Based on the goals of employees, the goals of the organization and the culture that you operate in, there probably is a good answer for a set of Web 2.0 technologies you should deploy.\u00a0 The answer however, is less around how you want employees to collaborate, and more about how you create meaningful experiences for those employees.\u00a0 Without meaningful experiences, a collaboration environment never takes off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve complained about information overload before.\u00a0 As we get into lists and networks and blogs, and microblogs, we subject ourselves to information from increasingly diverse sources.\u00a0 Some of these are annoying sources that we wish we didn\u2019t have anything to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,28,10,40,2,44,42,46],"tags":[446,455,54,258,259,55,166],"class_list":["post-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collaboration","category-communications","category-engagement","category-enterprise-solutions","category-hr-technology","category-innovation","category-portal-technology","category-web-20","tag-blogging","tag-collaboration","tag-facebook","tag-meaningful-experiences","tag-microblogging","tag-twitter","tag-web-2-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}