Building the relationship

Most companies’ success is relied on the relationship amongst CEO’s, top managers and all other lower ranked employees. When it comes to difficult decision making, already developed social networks through the company and its members, could really benefit the process of the company’s operations. Sometimes we face problems when we have a quite large social network within the company. More people are not necessarily better, managers are more likely experience a lot of pressure and information overload while listening to majority of the people. After awhile managers and CEO’s are most likely to reduce the number of the employees to a manageable size. That way they reduced the information overload and strengthen the link between the most trusted employees; which lets members use their strength more efficiently. While we bring all of our trusted employees together, not only do we have all the information that we need, but we also come up with all sort of other problems such as lack of the information about the colleagues background and difficulty applying and directing all of the gathered information towards the main goal. (Hidden Powers of Social Networks).

That’s where blogs come in; blogs could be a very effective and easy way to distribute information to each member of the group. I believe that each member of the group could create their own blogs and update it once a week. People should not overload themselves with blogs, of course they are busy and they have other tasks, but posting about yourself, and what you do could very much help the other members of the group. This way the corporation could work more like a unit, every time they come to the meeting, they already have knowledge about one another. I think it will really help to consume some time. While people are more likely to engage in conversations that are common to all of them, preparation could lead to a more efficient information implementation into the discussion.

Blogs and Polititians

After reading the article “How the Web Polarized Politics” it was obvious that politicians didn’t agree with blogging. The politicians felt this way because they didn’t want to be questioned or interrogated by society. The article explained the politician’s point of view and why they didn’t like to blog. I felt that there were many points missing in the article, for example what the average person thinks about blogs in politics. Another point that the article failed to mention was how blogging could affect the outcomes of elections, and how they could also cause information overload to the reader.

I also read a very interesting article in the SmartMoney magazine titled “ten things blogger won’t tell you.” Once I read both these articles I was able to draw out some conclusions why people would not feel comfortable reading blogs from politicians.

Most people that get paid to write blogs for their company are most likely to brag about their company’s product or in this case taking one side of a political party, which could cause the writer bias. People get hired to write blogs and sometimes these people use this opportunity to boost their own carriers.

People that read blogs don’t know for sure who actually wrote the blog. If the name is shown on the blog does it mean that he/she wrote it. Some random writers could create a blog and give out the wrong information to the reader causing the reader to be even more confused with the overloaded information.

Text Messaging

After reading “Smart Mob: The power of The Mobile Many”, written by Howard Rheingold, I was not surprised about what text messaging does and has done to our society. Bringing down the Philippines’ government or simply flirting with your “someone,” texting has become a powerful tool. It has become tough to imagine life without it.

It was interesting how “Smart Mob” gave a perfect example of how addicted and dependent we have become on cellular phones. When Faye Stylatgco saw most of the people playing with their phones during her friend’s father’s wake, I could not stop bringing back similar memories from my past. “If you do not have a phone, it is hard to consider you a complete citizen”- these words were usually addressed to the people that did not own a cell phone yet. Almost every person in Lithuania owns a phone, starting at the age of fourteen. During our friends’ gatherings it is not uncommon to see someone completely isolated and just typing on their number pad on their phone. It was not uncommon to become invisible if you did not own a cell phone.

What I am trying to say is that in the today’s society anyone could be connected to anyone they wish, but someone that does not keep up with the innovation could also be extremely left out. While text messaging brings 1 million Manila residents together, others are still left out because of their lack of a cell phone, for them it’s just another typical day.