The Map Is Not The Territory
How will you keep up with overwhelming sources of information and social media? Howard Rheingold of Stanford University in California reminds us that we need only sample the flow. Fundamental to social media is the fact that information flows openly. Rheingold identifies five new kinds of literacy needed to take advantage of open collaboration using social media:
- Attention
- Participation
- Cooperation
- Critical Consumption
- Network Awareness
Watch a video of Harold’s full July 2009 lecture at Reboot Britain.
The skill of filtering the information that matters to you, your projects and your organization is part of 21st Century Literacy. To begin to develop social media literacy focus on a few tools, then watch, listen to learn both the platform and the culture. Experiment. Have Fun. Social media sites as well as web search engines contain mryiad of information on how to use and filter.
Here’s an example of one way to filter on Twitter by Matt Singley
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