Quotes below from Janet Clarey’s posting entitled, “Unwired work: Fail”
Based on my very limited experiment, the social web is most valuable for me for the following:
- comparative analysis of digital content
- real-time communication in online networks
- time-sensitive digital tasks
- linkage between and among people
- greater reach (work with more people)
- collaboration
- development of relationships
- self-education
I can’t imagine what work would be like without the social web. I wouldn’t be writing this and you wouldn’t be reading this. I wouldn’t know many people who work in the e-learning industry. I wouldn’t be as far ahead in my thinking. It’s like playing up a level in sports. Where else could you connect directly with great minds in the field? It would be hard to do that even at a conference. Being a virtual web worker, I’d be pretty lonely and isolated too without the social web. My job wouldn’t be as fun and I’d be without some great relationships. Humorous, casual, frustrated, or even personal exchanges are the building blocks of relationships.