Social Collaboration

Due to rapid changes in business dynamics, there is a growing demand to encourage social conversations/exchanges and the ability to connect and communicate with peers, partners, customers and
other stakeholders anytime, anywhere which drives the need of mobile-enable, the existing enterprise applications.
This paper highlights a distinct set of needs and key customer challenges that must be considered and
addressed for deployment of Social Collaboration applications and Mobility services in enterprises. It not
only addresses the Critical Success Factors for enterprise mobility enablement but also outlines the unique
business requirements to rapidly create social collaboration culture and the discipline of turning social data into meaningful insights to drive business decisions in real-time.
Moreover, the paper emphasizes on developing composite offerings on social enterprise and Mobile networks that not only offer the value proposition in terms of financially oriented results, but also help customer to maximize return on investment (ROI).

Reality is essentially subjectively unknowable, existing as an image, perception, perspective or belief generated by a person, group or society. Nevertheless, consciousness, supported by our unconscious mind/brain and bootstrapped through social collaboration, is the only resource available to observe, create and comprehend our existence. In this little book we explore the various ways that we as humans participate in co-creating our reality.
This is Vol 8 in a series of 22 short books, what we call Conscious Look Books, that are conversational in nature, taking full advantage of the reader's lived experience to share what can sometimes be difficult concepts. We live in a world that is tearing itself apart, where people are out of control and wanting to control others, rebelling from years of real and perceived abuse and suppression of thought. Yet, this chaos offers us as a humanity the opportunity to make a giant leap forward. By opening ourselves to ourselves, we are able to fully explore who we are and who we can become. With that exploration comes a glimmer of hope as we begin to reclaim the power of each and every mind developed by the lived human experience! These 22 concepts are part of the learning journey of which we are all a part, the Intelligent Social Change Journey (ISCJ). This is a developmental journey of the body, mind and heart, moving from the heaviness of cause-and-effect linear extrapolations, to the fluidity of co-evolving with our environment, to the lightness of breathing our thought and feelings into reality. Grounded in development of our mental faculties, these are phase changes, each building on and expanding previous learning in our movement toward intelligent activity. These little books share 22 large concepts from the Profundity and Bifurcation of Change (which is written from an academic viewpoint). Each book is independent and includes seven ideas offered for the student of life to help us become the co-creators that we are. These books, available in soft cover from Amazon, support idea exploration, class discussion, other discussion groups or can be used as special occasion gifts.

Introduction: Developments in technology, such as the popularity of mobile devices and social media outlets, have enhanced the ability of individuals to communicate. Currently, search engines allow for easy exploration of information related to every topic of interest. Our study purpose was to evaluate the impact of technological and social collaborations on sexual and reproductive health knowledge (SRHK). Methods: A 50-item survey instrument, integrating factors of sociodemographics, number/type of social collaborations, technological communication use, and SRHK, was developed to assess familiarity with sexual and reproductive health perceptions. The survey was provided to consenting patients in an ambulatory, primary care setting. Data was coded and analyzed using IBM-SPSS. Statistical analysis included: Pearson correlation, t and Chi-squared tests. Statistical significance was established at p \u3c .05. Results: A total of 75 patients completed the study, mean age 57.4 + 15.2 yea...

Being an emerging business practice, gamification is going to the mainstream to enable and transform social business initiatives across enterprises. With the consistent focus on customer behavior and experience, there is a paradigm shift in thinking about how Gamification and Social initiatives together help to increase the engagement level of knowledge worker, yielding better business results. Business scenarios for gamification are wide spread ranging from customer service and support to communities and collaboration.
The Paper discusses the characteristics & mechanism to learn from games that are important for businesses
to understand and apply. It also gives insights on gamification trends, real-world business challenges and
also describes on how game thinking can revolutionize the business and create an engaging experience

Content-based microblogging networks like Twitter have a significant and fast evolution of the information amount. In addition to textual content and member activities, analyzing structural information concerning user neighborhood and communities is an opportunity for several applications such as user interest modeling. In this context, this work proposes a new approach for temporal topics of interest derivation and tracking in the Twitter micro-blogging network. The challenge of this approach is to take into consideration the different dimensions of the user’s interest such as personal, social and temporal aspect. We propose a new definition of an ego network that incorporates friendship reliability and dependency between members. The belief function theory that allows combining evidence from dependent or independent sources in an uncertain context is introduced. This theory has been widely utilized in various decision-making systems. To model the topics of interest evolution, we introduce the aging theory suggested mainly for event life-cycle detection and modeling in a micro-blogging network. We present an experimental study performed on the actual Twitter users, validating our approach. This model is compared to other methods using the same database.

ABSTRACT This paper addresses the issue of resource offloading for energy usage optimization in the cloud, using the centrality principle of social networks. Mobile users take advantage of the mobile opportunistic cloud, in order to increase their reliability in service provision by guaranteeing sufficient resources for the execution of mobile applications. This work elaborates on the improvement of the energy consumption for each mobile device, by using a social collaboration model that allows for a cooperative partial process offloading scheme. The proposed scheme uses social centrality as the underlying mobility and connectivity model for process offloading within the connected devices to maximize the energy usage efficiency, node availability and process execution reliability. Furthermore, this work considers the impact of mobility on the social-oriented offloading, by allowing partitionable resources to be executed according to the social interactions and the associated mobility of each user during the offloading process. The proposed framework is thoroughly evaluated through event driven simulations, towards defining the validity and offered efficiency of the proposed offloading policy in conjunction to the energy consumption of the wireless devices.