#PowerOfTags

Knowledge/Personal Tags- used to organize and group various content or sections

#Hashtags- easy way for people to categorize, find and join conversations on a particular topic.

What is a mention? -A mention is any Post update that contains "@username" anywhere in the body of the Post.

I How do we see ourselves?

Describe yourself with three keywordsDescribe your job role with Key wordsOut of three six keywords- 1 or 2 to describe you & your work

II How are the clients seeing you?

Describe your organization using one or multiple wordsYour role within organizationWhat are the keywords you want combine others/clients/employees to know about you..

So what exactly are tags?•A simple definition would be to say that

tags are keywords, category names, or metadata.

• In essence, a tag is simply a freely chosen set of textual keywords. However -they do not at present follow any formal guidelines.

•Items can be categorized with any word that defines a relationship between the online resource and a concept in the user's mind.

•Any number of words might be chosen, some of which are obvious representations, others making less sense outside the tag author's context.

Try using the Personal tags on your profile and try finding yourself? ….

Search by Tags

How do you conduct a search for a person?

Use 1,2 keywords to describe WATSON, without using it`s name

Rules of tagging Tag as a single word; NO spaces allowed. Tags contain characters sometimes -underscore (_) or at/hasthag sign (@ #).

Global_Learning, global learning, gl, but NO Global Learning

The letters in a knowledge/personal tag are saved as all lowercase letters (except @/#) Uppercase letters will be converted to lowercase when the tag is added.

To add multiple tags, type a comma or leave a space between each tag.

The tags that you add to items, entries, and people are automatically added to the tag collection, and become visible to others.

Do you want to add something to the list?

Describe each situation with one or two words.

Is it hard to distinguish them in words? What makes the situations UNIQUE?

What would be a keyword to mark the difference here?

Difference is all that matters, uniqueness of a situation can be translated in a whole syntagm

#Hashtag

Easy way for people to categorize, find and join conversations on a particular topic.

#Hashtag is used to #highlight keywords or topic within a , and can be placed anywhere within a post.

By inserting it in all posts related to the topic, users get to see all conversations about the subject in one thread by simply clicking on the hashtag itself.

Thus a global community is built up around the #topic

Unique strategy for categorizing messages on Connections and is seen as a very powerful crowdsourcing tool by businesses.

1. Use it to start a topic or discussion.Companies – internally/externally are also making hashtags to drive more relevant

audiences to one area, such as #HRSocialSuccess

You can track how well your hashtag is doing by running it through an Social analytics tool- that will tell you how many are posting it, what is the sentiment, the related hashtags being used and who the top posters are.

2. Use it to start a competition.

Hashtags can be used to hold a contest on the internet and create wider market for your brand.

You can use hashtags to invite people to join and become part of the discussions. People can use the search function on Twitter to look for relevant hashtags that they might be interested in.

3. Host and join chats.

Status updates/ Blog/Forum chats will increase your follower numbers and boost employee`s awareness.

You can find hashtags that cover the same people who will provide better insight for your business inquiry. You can also ask or answerquestions and get information quickly by joining these discussion platforms.

4. Get Information

Hashtags are rich sources of information where you can learn the latest updates and issues pertaining to your Business and latest hot topics.You can have a coach who can guide and advise you a number of business approaches and strategies to boost your own influence .

5. Use it to Arrange Posts

Using hashtags will help you organize your posts accordingly. You can easily find topics that relate to your Business, as well as create hashtags for social or Business purposes only.You can also find related hashtags that might discuss similar topics. Be sure to check for the existence of similar hashtags before creating your own.

6. Expand your network Creating hashtags on will improve your network reach.

It’s ideal to keep the figures positive so making the right and relevant hashtags will make you more visible to your target audience and entice others to follow you online as well and get engaged in discussions.

Knowledge tags

used to organize and group various content or sections

Find a Characteristic amongst participants

Management/Training/Finances…

•Ask people under A on participants` list if anyone can self-assign same characteristics•If NO from the group “A”, then go under “B” or “ C” etc..• Same like looking in folder after folder until you finally find the file

Rinse & Repeat

•Everybody raise your hands•Those with the sought-after trait to remain standing while everybody else to lower their hands•If many are still having hand raised, ask for a second trait, then third

Create a structure of 15 words:

Rabbit, raspberries, milk, honey, wheat, sheep, turnip, dandelion, egg , fish-eggs, rose, pepper, pine-cone, ivory, fly

Organize the words in as many subsets as you may find necessary and label them with keywords

What is the major keyword?

Tag, filter or search instead of adding in folders and forget all about in time, and avoid having others guess which folder you considered to be the right one

Tags work across all sorts of content in Connections! Tag using expressions you would have used if

searching for the file ....or you would have called the folder to put it in Start typing and use the suggestions that appear –

Social Standard

One-way to structure content Folder hierarchy , Multiple-ways to structure various aspects of contents and Diversify the ability to search

How can we do our actual work and stop reading mails?

What is a mention?-Your new Social mailbox!

A mention is any Post update that contains "@username" anywhere in the body of the Post. (That is also a reply to a post where your @replies are also considered mentions.)

All @replies are gathered in the Mentions tab on the   page.

Mailbox system

If you include more than one person's name in your Tweet and you use the @username format, all of those people will see it on their Mentions tab.

CC?

Basic valuesWorking in Open

Global communityTransparent and

nimbleTime saving and

efficientConfident

Basic tips1.Collaborative Tag

everything relevant2.Tag in community

whatever you may find useful

3.Tag graciously so the others can find it