Measuring the Impact of Social Media: Connection, Communication and Collaboration

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Author(s): Kimiz Dalkir (McGill University, Canada)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 13
Source title: Social Knowledge: Using Social Media to Know What You Know
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): John P. Girard (Minot State University, USA)and JoAnn L. Girard (Sagology, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-203-1.ch002

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Media & Communications / Social Computing / Social Networking

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This chapter focuses on a method, social network analysis (SNA) that can be used to assess the quantity and quality of connection, communication and collaboration mediated by social tools in an organization. An organization, in the Canadian public sector, is used as a real-life case study to illustrate how SNA can be used in a pre-test/post-test evaluation design to conduct a comparative assessment of methods that can be used before, during and after the implementation of organizational change in work processes. The same evaluation method can be used to assess the impact of introducing new social media such as wikis, expertise locator systems, blogs, Twitter and so on. In other words, while traditional pre-test/post-test designs can be easily applied to social media, the social media tools themselves can be added to the assessment toolkit. Social network analysis in particular is a good candidate to analyze the connections between people and content as well as people with other people.

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