Making Social Technologies Work
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Making Social Technologies Work
Embracing social technologies at work is not just a blog from the CEO. It is about understanding all the opportunities where social media and technology activities could improve your company from marketing to operations. A practical guide for managers and an informative window into the world of social technologies in business.
The Social Design of Technical Systems
This books teaches you how to build technologies for communities. Email, Wikipedia, eBay, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are all socio-technical systems: A social system operating on a technical base. Hundreds of millions of people use them every day, but how do they work? More importantly, can we build them better?
Social Media and Social Work
The COVID-19 pandemic has shed fresh light on the ways that social media and digital technologies can be effectively harnessed to support relationship-based social work practice. However, it has also highlighted the complex risks, ethics and practical challenges that such technologies pose. This book helps practitioners and students navigate this complex terrain and explore and build upon its multiple opportunities. It uses real-life examples to examine how practitioners can assess the impact of new technologies on their professional conduct and use them in a way that enhance public confidence and relationship-based practice. The authors explore how digital technologies can support multiple areas of service including social work with children, families and adults, mental health social work, youth justice and working with online communities. They also consider regulatory questions and provide a roadmap for good practice.