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Date:_________________________________________________
LESSON 9. ENTERPRISE SOCIAL MEDIA
APPENDIX 1. LEAD IN ACTIVITY
Work in pairs. How do you communicate
electronically with friends and family?
Task 1. Which types of communication do you
think are better for:
• communication information
• being
friendly
Task 2. Match websites 1-3 to types a-e.
There are two extra types.
Can you give other
examples for each type?
1.
Dropbox
2.
Facebook
3.
Twitter
APPENDIX 2. GLOSSARY
a)
microblogging
system
b)
internet
forum
c)
file sharing
service
d)
social
networking
e)
blog
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APPENDIX 3. LISTENING
Liten to five people describing trends and match them to graphs A and B.
APPENDIX 4. READING
Read the text and underline the sentences with passive voice.
Enterprise social media.
Enterprise social networking focuses on the use of online social networks or social
relations among people who share business interests and/or activities. Enterprise social networking
is often a facility of enterprise social software, which is essentially social software used in
"enterprise"
(business/commercial)
contexts. It
encompasses
modifications
to
corporate intranets (referred to as social intranets) and other classic software platforms used by
large companies to organize their communication, collaboration and other aspects of their intranets.
Enterprise social networking is also generally thought to include the use of a standard
external social networking service to generate visibility for an enterprise.
Social networking sites started to form in the 1990s; an example of these websites
is Theglobe.com, which began in 1995. As other websites such as GeoCities and Tripod.com started
to form online communities, they encouraged their users to interact with each other via chat
rooms and other tools. They also provided easy-to-use publishing tools along with free web
space. Classmates.com’s approach was to link people together via their emails, the website was like
a friends search engine.
Businesses eventually realized that social networking websites could provide a fast and
efficient way of marketing. Social media websites are great places for businesses to reach their
customers, and the environment can provide a means for growing a business. In 2005, as social
networking websites were becoming more and more popular, Myspace had more page views
than Google. Myspace was followed by Facebook , which started in February 2004. When
Facebook began, users were limited to college students in the United States, who had to use a
college email with a .edu extension to join the network. In September 2005,
some high schools were
allowed to join the network, but they needed an invitation to join. On September 26 of 2006,
Facebook announced that anyone around the world older than 13 years old with a valid email would
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be able to join Facebook’s online community. In October 2007, Microsoft purchased a 1.6% share
of Facebook. That gave them the right to place international ads on Facebook. In July 2010, it was
reported that Facebook had more than 500 million active users. This means that one out of fourteen
people around the world is a Facebook user. The growth of Facebook was a boom in the social
networking space. Facebook became a huge corporation that had 1400 employees in 2009; their
estimated revenue was US$800 million in 2009. In 2010, it was reported that there were more than
200 social networking websites on the web.
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