Ethical Considerations in Social Media Extent and Dilemmas of Safeguarding Freedoms : Agents for Good or Evil?

Reflecting on our Leicester Award online employability course, and the importance of actively using all known Social Media on the Internet to connect and communicate.

These in turn made me think of far more reaching implications, beyond our course and into more serious issues least talked about! These can lead to complex and delicate matters being examined more closely with regard to various issues pertaining to our online presence & our SM 'brand' footprint.

Questions I feel we ought to be reflecting on when defining who we are in our meticulous search into online exposure, networking and employability! 

Online Law & Order!

sharing our wealth: http://www.ted.com/talks/misha_glenny_investigates...: http://www.ted.com/talks/misha_glenny_investigates_global_crime_networks.html

http://allexcann.blogspot.ae/2013/07/httpwww.html

Introducing the Aspen Leaders Action Forum: Great Lessons of History! These are Inspirational Learnings for our Todays and the Building Blocks of a Better Future for All!

Do You Talk About Gender Equality?... And All The Difference Made in Women’s Life!

Reflecting on the above title, half of which was to a relevant article posted few days back on LinkedIn, to which I commented with part of what is said here, along the other half extended today.

It's been sometime I actually have been championing the same!

I believe the more we talk about gender diversity and gender parity in business and organisations, the more we can change narrow mindsets, facilitating understanding, opening doors and removing all barriers preventing women from progressing on equal footing as men in their careers; maintaining therefore, equitable, fair and just systems for all!  

Genuine Collaborations & True Dialogue Between Two Intellectual Giants: Corporate & Academia

With the latest reflections on activities with Social Media and online learning, it made me reflect on my current academic research and studies while conducting my own dissertation project, exploring empirical facts and situations from a number of business practical perspectives, considering those with analysis, comparisons and findings. These in turn are to be extracted and refined, on the way to being transformed into reliable academic hypotheses and theories for the benefit of academia in defining better solutions for principles in practices. 

The Importance of the Internet, Social Media & The Need to Being Connected Online!

The virtual world of the online www. has been a wonderful way to explore the world, understand a multitude of perspectives, and be in touch with the realities of life the way it is lived elsewhere; by one's friends & family away; or by how life goes on in different countries for different people. 

It's just AMAZING to be able to have at your fingertips a window to different worlds, some are new and  bewildering; some we know, are familiar with and great to revisit whenever one fancies:)

Others are less pleasant and happy... Many places are quite shocking indeed! Frightening realities for many, lived in horrid ways for millions of people living in poverty and total neglect; deprived and destitute, going through life in total misery...  

Distance Learning: Developing Your Career!

Social Networks and the Global Brain | THE RABBIT HOLE with Deepak Chopra

Social Media for the Enterprise - A Business Case P2P Value Connections

Dominic Barton: Five Trends Reshaping the Global Economy

McKinsey: The people, the projects, the impact!

John Lewis Always A Woman Adam & Eve Group Ltd.

Making sense of social media: The phenomenon

Video: The power of social: Let your customers tell the story | Chief Marketing & Sales Officer Forum | McKinsey

Video: The power of social: Let your customers tell the story | Chief Marketing & Sales Officer Forum | McKinsey

Women as leaders - OpenLearn - Open University

Women as leaders - OpenLearn - Open University

Megatrends: the trends shaping work and working lives

McKinsey's Women Matter & Senior Women /On Being Insanely Obsessed:)

Unit 2 E-tivity 1: Social Media & Its Usage

Following on this first Unit 2 E-tivity 1: Social Media & Its Usage

For some time now I have been using twitter, Skype, LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook (x3), and more recently with our LA course here, I have made an effort to improve and edit my blogs (x3) and have been working at improving my Google+ accounts (x2) as well.

Initially, I set up all these to keep connected with friends and family. With the start of my master studies early on in 2011, I realised the importance of being connected for my studies, but more so professionally as well! So I set up my LinkedIn and Twitter accounts to make an online presence for myself and to keep records of academic issues related to my studies. However, gradually as I became more familiar and hooked on the benefits of learning I was getting, these extended to other universities, academic and professional sites from social sciences weblinks and current affairs informative websites.

As I progressed with the studies and modules into preparing my dissertation project, I set up another FB account dedicating it mostly to the topic of my research. It was a way of building a study case and keeping a record for myself, following up on my research and studies. My latest Blog under the title of 'Gender & Glass Ceiling Research HRM & Training Project' is also a reflection of my academic work and research towards my master degree.

I have actually been using all these online Social Media tools fairly regularly, with a long recorded history saved and archived, forming a sort of library & references for me to use whenever I want to. Most of these, I kept public as I felt they are mostly a collection of open, educational and informative sources, in addition to the fact they are not really mine to keep! I was happy to share them with whoever would be interested to have a look, just like an educational public library. 

I certainly feel I have been using them well for my own personal, social and academic needs; but maybe not so much to promote myself or seek job vacancies, or even connect for employment opportunities. At the moment, I’m not sure I want to be working as a full time employee anymore. However, I am conscious of creating a professional presence for myself, as I have been building my own personal career image through the collection of references and personal interests accumulated since being active online for the last two years or so (even though this was not really done intentionally initially!). 

Supporting Active Fatherhood in Britain by Laura King

http://www.historyandpolicy.org/papers/policy-paper-132.html#top

Laura King's recent research on 'Active Fatherhood' in Britain is a refreshing paper to read, depicting a more balanced positive view on the male paternalistic representation, in a more positive light, as a caring and loving father. It is comforting to read that indeed majority of men, once married or in a serious long term relationship, are in fact very much keen, when the time comes, to fully enjoy and proudly assume fatherhood status. A cherished position even more appreciated once having babies becomes a more desired and wanted yearning, rather than a regrettable error in counting or an unfortunate moment lost under the spell! Many men indeed do take their responsibilities as fathers very seriously, and thank god for those! 

Blog on Engaging people in making history: Paternalistic, top-down approaches to impact may limit innovation and two-way exchange - 8/7/13 by Laura King & Gary Rivett

8/7/13

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/07/08/engaging-people-in-making-history/#author

Engaging people in making history: Paternalistic, top-down approaches to impact may limit innovation and two-way exchange

“we need to celebrate those projects that focus on genuine collaboration and innovation in terms of dialogue and exchange in terms of knowledge, skills and ideas.”

Comments made to the above:

I read your article with great interest, as I am just about to finish the last part of a master degree, it made me reflect on my recent academic research and studies while conducting my own dissertation project, exploring empirical facts and situations from a number of business practical perspectives, reflecting on those with analysis, comparisons and findings. These in turn are to be extracted and refined, on the way to being transformed into reliable academic hypotheses and theories for the benefit of academia in defining better solutions for principles in practices. 

A Window to the Past: The View doesn't seem much different across the ages!

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ruskin

"We want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call one a gentleman, and the other an operative; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen, in the best sense. As it is, we make both ungentle, the one envying, the other despising, his brother; and the mass of society is made up of morbid thinkers and miserable workers. Now it is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity."

Women's Right and Human Rights in the 21st Century

The University of Pennsylvania Integration & Diversity: The Learning Curve of Historical Events!

'Invisible Women: Making Women Count' / OECD Better Life Index

http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/2013/03/invisible-women-making-women-count/

"First, women are not being recognised. They are undervalued. In 2009, the European Commission launched a campaign to address the fact that on average, women earn 17.4% less than men. In the US, research has shown that one year after college, women earn only 80% of what their male colleagues earn. Why aren’t enough women being represented on boards or in politics? Can any of our current measures for economic performance address this issue? There are indicators that measure the percentage of women in senior positions over time but  if a country’s success was based on it, you can bet leaders would work a little harder to appoint women in top positions. If this indicator was important and recognised, imagine what might change....However, unleashing the economic and social potential of women and making them visible in government policy is a major global challenge, one that would reap significant economic benefits if  really and truly supported. This would be revolutionary. In the end, it comes down to the fact that what doesn’t count isn’t counted, and we only count what we can see. We have to start seeing women and the work they do."

 

By Angela Costrini Hariche and Karen Barnes Robinson"

Power of Advice - "The Light at the End of the Tunnel...and It's not a Train":)

Video from Jeff Bezos about Amazon and Zappos

Why should YOU get involved in Bright Futures?

Creating A Better World:)

A Comment made on linkedIn:

True!! There are too many broken people around because of bad business and gross mismanagement! We need to learn from these mistakes, improve and progress! We've got to find ways to balance a good living with a harmless sustainable one! It's not easy, but we are all in a much better world than few decades ago!  We might be living in a competitive crazy digital world, and we often need to deal with certain unpleasant issues... We also need to move on into good living  with ourselves and those around us! Adding Zest & Meaning into our life is a way of healing and making the journey less painful and more pleasant for us & others in the long run:)

Rethinking the responsibility of business leaders | Rethinking the responsibility of business leaders | London Business School BSR

Rethinking the responsibility of business leaders | Rethinking the responsibility of business leaders | London Business School BSR

Women in Business Conference: "Inspiration & Motivation Up the Corporate...

Cherie Blair, Opening Keynote at 12th Annual Women in Business Conferenc...

Violence against women: confronting the silence

Violence against women: confronting the silence


My comments on the post:

'Great Article! A very sad reality for many... and no comments here at all!

These are however great food for thoughts, as the arguments put forward here should certainly sensitise even more the academic communities & social sciences officials into active responses with further research and open forums, bringing forward and discussing openly, as well as more frequently this major gender issue. Educational events and cultural understanding might spur the wider communities into the realisation of the urgency for community programmes to be put in place and be implemented for the future benefit of the whole society.

A whole community should be mobilised for that grand purpose alone!

Women's Forum Brazil 2013 Plenary session Opening speech by V Morali...

Myrna's blog: WHO AM I /Unit 2 LA

Myrna's blog: WHO AM I: MY PERSONAL BRAND I am a doctoral candidate in Social Science, studying the retirement demographic and interested in whether the use of t...

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