Can you imagine where you are or what you are doing today without social media? Can you imagine your life without the existence of social media or perhaps is it even possible for you to live?
As what others say, Social Medis is the biggest shift since Industrial Revolution. The change is phenomenal that it brought different impacts on individuals, organizations and what not that perhaps were not imagined years ago. Read the rest of this entry
What do you think will happen when many people share their experiences, their opinions or their lives on Facebook, Twitter, blogs, YouTube and what have you? According to a book from Emanuel Rosen entitled Anatomy of The Buzz, “something interesting happens to buzz.”
Not only is social media for the profit-based organizations who wanted to know about their stakeholders more, engage them or sell to them. Not only is it a means where people converge for conversations, entertainments and the likes.
One of the great things about social media is that it also paved way for the different groups advocating for various causes such as protection and promotion for the rights of women and children, saving the earth, water and electricity conservation and what not to make the public be aware, interested and engaged of their advocacies and provide means for people to participate and to a more convenient way to help. Read the rest of this entry
On the internet, people not just only create contents, videos, wikis, blogs and the likes, netizens also create personalities. Now there are not just movie stars or reality tv show idols, there are also the online celebrities. Read the rest of this entry
Have you ever had an experience wherein you eagerly wanted to learn/do something that you cannot achieve on your own due to lack of time, experience, knowledge and what not? What did you do then? Did you ask someone to teach you, did you do nothing or were you resourceful and quick-witted to use the internet?
Years back, I wanted so much to learn and be able to do stuff such as playing wonderful piano pieces. I did not have the money to pay for the expensive piano tutorials nor would I be able to learn those I fancied at a snap because the tutor would more likely teach me the basics first before going to the more quite complicated notes I wanted to play. Read the rest of this entry
Have you ever had the chance to become the first person to tell others what happened, how it happened, why it happened and what not? Was it exciting? Do you think it is possible that ordinary people have the ability to broadcast information to a huge audience first before the media? Are they believable?
Hyperspecialization has the potential to become a trend all over the world as it now operates and benefits a lot of people today. Its existence is said to be brought about by the same factor that offered us the craze of social media and directed us to a bigger community, cheap communication. Because it’s very easy and at almost no cost to communicate through the internet, people became more connected all over the world. Hence, companies could easily search for and hire workers.
How is it for me?
As much as I very much acknowledge the advancements brought about by social media, hyperspecialization is a different matter and has a lot of things to consider. Read the rest of this entry
‘Two is better than one’
‘Bayanihan’
‘Teamwork divides the task and doubles the success’
Get the idea? Individuals working together, sharing the tasks and accomplishing all of those with better outcomes because of people’s collective effort; these are known and established verities. These have been proven practically effective and valuable for people and for organizations.
What is it?
Today, there is a rising process related to these and it’s called hyperspecialization. Some say that it is a rehash of what we already have such as system engineering, outsourcing and the likes but hyperspecialization is a different thing. It is the breaking down of a job that is previously done by a person into specific bits of tasks now to be accomplished by specialized workers. Read the rest of this entry
Many new High School and College graduates don’t truly understand this [reputation online] until they are sitting in a job interview and the HR manager opens a file that includes not only their resume but also their latest blog entries and party photos. Online content is public information and it’s fair game for employers to ask about it.
- Jeffrey Joerres, Chairman and CEO of Manpower
Mr. Joerres is talking about online reputation as one of the deciding factors whether job applicants would be accepted or not. This thus implies the significance online reputation plays to everyone. Read the rest of this entry
NOTHINGNESS
It took me quite a long time to be able to have a first blog. When I started typing, I didn’t know where I was heading. Then I remembered what I read from a book about writing. It said that if ever you do not have anything in mind to write, then free write. Just jot down or type whatever it is running inside your head. Still, nothing, that was something adequate, came up. Read the rest of this entry
