How do you use social media to help organise information and streamline your working processes? (This is an updated version of last year's talk.)

1. Social Media
for collaboration and
information management
Suw Charman-Anderson
Social Technologist

3. Information is
everywhere
‣ There is more information available now than
ever before
‣ How do you organise it?
‣ How do you store it?
‣ How do you re-find it?
‣ How do you share it?

5. Types of tasks
‣ Collect and organise information
‣ Share information
‣ Collaborate
‣ Talk to people
‣ Find people

14. wiki

24. A few facts about
email
‣ Majority get too much email
‣ 38% - more than 100 emails a day
‣ 13% - more than 250 emails a day
‣ Spend too much time in email
‣ 56% - more than 2 hours a day
‣ 22% - more than 4 hours

25. We love email
‣ We check email more often than we think
‣ 50% say every hour
‣ 35% say every 15 mins
‣ ...Actually it’s more like every 5 mins

26. We *really* love
email
‣ Average response time is 1 min 44 sec
‣ 70% of us respond within 6 seconds
‣ ... that’s faster than a phone ringing 3 times
‣ And it takes 64 seconds to recover our train
of thought.
‣ That’s 8 hours a week for the worst offenders

27. What do you use
email for?

29. With thanks to
‣ http://www.flickr.com/photos/caseywest/346329776/
‣ http://www.flickr.com/photos/12148520@N00/360505392/
‣ http://www.flickr.com/photos/observers_pov/158778047/
‣ http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogmuseum2/174206835/
‣ http://www.flickr.com/photos/mshades/559652022/
‣ http://www.flickr.com/photos/mandj98/273301364/
‣ http://www.flickr.com/photos/holster/3703709645/

30. Suw Charman-Anderson
social technologist
suw.charman@gmail.com
@suw on Twitter
strange.corante.com
suw.org.uk