Using Social Media in the Workplace to Communicate: Digital Resources Analysis

This analysis explores the use of social media in the workplace, including its influence on employee communication, mobile computing devices in higher education, and the use of social media for advertising and marketing. It also examines enterprise social media and how social networks cross boundaries in the workplace.

USING SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE WORKPLACE TO COMMUNICATE
DIGITAL RESOURCES ANALYSIS
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1. Resource 1:
a. Name of the Resource: Understanding the influence of social media in the workplace:
An integration of media synchronicity and social capital theories
b. Type of the Resource: Article
c. Summary of the Resource: Social media has significantly invaded workplace, that in
turn has provided diversity in employee’s lives. Trust updates data exchange the
workplace with a more grounded effect on the trading of certain learning instead of
express learning. Comprehended learning trade was basically related to work execution,
while express data trade did not on a very basic level effect work execution. The
speculative and sensible responsibilities of this examination are discussed.
d. 5 Reliability Test for the Resource:
e. Full Reference of the Resource: Cao, X., Vogel, D. R., Guo, X., Liu, H., & Gu, J.
(2012, January). Understanding the influence of social media in the workplace: An
integration of media synchronicity and social capital theories. In 2012 45th Hawaii
International Conference on System Sciences (pp. 3938-3947). IEEE.
2. Resource 2:
a. Name of the Resource: Mobile computing devices in higher education: Student
perspectives on learning with cellphones, smartphones & social media
b. Type of the Resource: Article
c. Summary of the Resource: The scope of this paper behind this examination was to
research teaching and acknowledging at the time versatile handling devices, for instance,
cellphones and mobile phones, were completed in cutting edge training. The study shows
disclosures on understudies' perspective of learning with flexible figuring devices and the
parts electronic life played. This subjective research consider understudies from three
universities over the US. The understudies' educators had been consolidating adaptable
figuring contraptions, for instance, cellphones and phones, into their paths. Data were
accumulated through understudy focus gathering interviews. Two specific subjects
ascended out of the gathering data: (a) central purposes of flexible handling contraptions
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for understudy learning and (b) disillusionments from learning with convenient enrolling
devices.
d. 5 Reliability Test for the Resource:
e. Full Reference of the Resource: Gikas, J., & Grant, M. M. (2013). Mobile computing
devices in higher education: Student perspectives on learning with cellphones,
smartphones & social media. The Internet and Higher Education, 19, 18-26.
3. Resource 3:
a. Name of the Resource: Using social media to increase advertising and improve
marketing
b. Type of the Resource: Article
c. Summary of the Resource: This paper will center around clarifying why business
visionaries, different specialists, and workforce must comprehend the impacts that the
correct utilization of web based life has on the accomplishment of organizations. There is
an emergency in mass advertising which must be tended to. With the economy in its
present condition, it is basic that businesses people additionally see how to utilize online
life to expand publicizing furthermore enhance showcasing. The conventional advertising
model is being tested, and how to produce drives, increment mindfulness, and methods
for imparting are persistently advancing. This paper will talk about the focal points and
downsides of utilizing web-based social networking and will answer questions pertinent
to the utilization of online networking.
d. 5 Reliability Test for the Resource:
e. Full Reference of the Resource: Hensel, K., & Deis, M. H. (2010). Using social media
to increase advertising and improve marketing. The Entrepreneurial Executive, 15, 87.
4. Resource 4:
a. Name of the Resource: Enterprise social media: Definition, history, and prospects for
the study of social technologies in organizations
b. Type of the Resource: Article
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c. Summary of the Resource:
d. 5 Reliability Test for the Resource: Social media are continuously executed in work
relationship as instruments for correspondence among delegates. Therefore it is vital for
developing an idea of their engagement and oblige the useful activities by means of
which work is master since it is these outstandingly stream that constitute and proliferate
affiliations. We begin by offering a significance of enormous business electronic life and
giving an unpalatable chronicled record of the distinctive streets through by means these
advances have entered and continue entering the workplace. We similarly review zones
of research peddled by papers in this excellent issue and papers on enormous business
web based life circulated elsewhere to survey the recurring pattern state of out data and to
propose headings for further research.
e. Full Reference of the Resource: Leonardi, P. M., Huysman, M., & Steinfield, C. (2013).
Enterprise social media: Definition, history, and prospects for the study of social
technologies in organizations. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 19(1), 1-
19.
5. Resource 5:
a. Name of the Resource: When social networks cross boundaries: a case study of
workplace use of facebook and linkedin
b. Type of the Resource: Article
c. Summary of the Resource: The use of informal communication programming by
specialists is extending radically. How it is used, paying little respect to whether it
redesigns or lessens gainfulness, and how attempted very much arranged arrangement
and use may create are open request. We take a gander at perspectives and practices in a
broad, mechanically clever relationship through a wide outline and thirty focused
gatherings. We discover expansive social and work uses, with complex cases that diverge
from programming structure and coordinator age. Strains develop when use navigates
get-togethers and the affiliation's firewall. Regardless of the way that usage is
overwhelmingly to help weak ties whose responsibility to productivity can be difficult to
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illustrate, we imagine quick take-up of long range casual correspondence development by
affiliations.
d. 5 Reliability Test for the Resource:
e. Full Reference of the Resource: Skeels, M. M., & Grudin, J. (2009, May). When social
networks cross boundaries: a case study of workplace use of facebook and linkedin.
In Proceedings of the ACM 2009 international conference on Supporting group work (pp.
95-104). ACM.
REFERNCE LISTS
Cao, X., Vogel, D. R., Guo, X., Liu, H., & Gu, J. (2012, January). Understanding the influence
of social media in the workplace: An integration of media synchronicity and social
capital theories. In 2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (pp.
3938-3947). IEEE.
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Gikas, J., & Grant, M. M. (2013). Mobile computing devices in higher education: Student
perspectives on learning with cellphones, smartphones & social media. The Internet and
Higher Education, 19, 18-26.
Hensel, K., & Deis, M. H. (2010). Using social media to increase advertising and improve
marketing. The Entrepreneurial Executive, 15, 87.
Leonardi, P. M., Huysman, M., & Steinfield, C. (2013). Enterprise social media: Definition,
history, and prospects for the study of social technologies in organizations. Journal of
Computer-Mediated Communication, 19(1), 1-19.
Skeels, M. M., & Grudin, J. (2009, May). When social networks cross boundaries: a case study
of workplace use of facebook and linkedin. In Proceedings of the ACM 2009
international conference on Supporting group work (pp. 95-104). ACM.
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