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		<title>Future challenges in learning and knowledge transfer</title>
		<link>http://meritext.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/future-challenges-in-learning-and-knowledge-transfer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miia Äkkinen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The project Nordic Knowledge on the Web will organize a conference on November 24, 2011 in Vaasa, Finland. It is possible to follow the conference via Adobe Connect, too. My presentation in the conference will be about social media in higher education and business, and what we can learn from each other. Conference program seems very &#8230; <a href="http://meritext.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/future-challenges-in-learning-and-knowledge-transfer/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meritext.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7036321&amp;post=209&amp;subd=meritext&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Linkkejä syksyn kirjoituksiini</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 07:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miia Äkkinen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Linkkejä syksyn teksteihin ja esityksiin: &#8220;Sosiaalinen media tietojärjestelmätieteen tutkimuskentässä&#8221; &#8211; kirjoitus MEMEgroupin blogissa Sosiaalinen media &#8211; turvallisuusriski vai turvallisuuden tekijä? Yrittäjäsanomat 7/2011 (pdf, sivu 24) Thoughts on social media &#8211; kooste inspiroivista blogiteksteistä, jalostunevat omaksi blogipostaukseksi myöhemmin<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meritext.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7036321&amp;post=201&amp;subd=meritext&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Development Path</title>
		<link>http://meritext.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/social-media-development-path/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miia Äkkinen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The use of social media in an organization demands an open mindset. The old working culture need to replaced with a culture of openness, sharing and empowerment if the organization wants to use social media in a beneficial way. There is no point in embedding the old habits and approaches to the social media services. &#8230; <a href="http://meritext.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/social-media-development-path/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meritext.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7036321&amp;post=175&amp;subd=meritext&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media in Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miia Äkkinen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a social media researcher, I have been asked a few times to give a lecture about social media in education. Usually my focus is on the business use of social media, but it is always very inspiring and fruitful to look at things outside your own box. I just heard from a teacher at &#8230; <a href="http://meritext.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/social-media-in-education/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meritext.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7036321&amp;post=154&amp;subd=meritext&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Challenges in social media adoption and use</title>
		<link>http://meritext.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/challenges-in-social-media-adoption-and-use/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 08:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miia Äkkinen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Together with Meri Kuikka, PhD student , we have written a research paper about determining challenges in organizational social media adoption and use. Two days ago we received the official announcement that our paper was accepted to ECIS 2011, the 19th European Conference on Information Systems (Helsinki, June 9-11, 2011): Thank you very much for &#8230; <a href="http://meritext.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/challenges-in-social-media-adoption-and-use/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meritext.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7036321&amp;post=143&amp;subd=meritext&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Researcher, personal brand and social media</title>
		<link>http://meritext.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/researcher-personal-brand-and-social-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miia Äkkinen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just discussing with a group of researchers and asked how I have been creating my personal brand on the Internet. I have tried all kind of alternatives, satisfied with something and unsatisfied with others. At the moment I have a solution that I can recommend. I have created this blog to write about &#8230; <a href="http://meritext.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/researcher-personal-brand-and-social-media/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meritext.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7036321&amp;post=134&amp;subd=meritext&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social media objectives need connection to business</title>
		<link>http://meritext.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/social-media-objectives-need-connection-to-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miia Äkkinen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is great to notice that the companies are gradually moving from experimenting social media solutions to integrating it into their business. In order to create value, social media objectives need to be connected with business.  I am currently writing an academic research paper about social media strategies and alignment between social media and business. &#8230; <a href="http://meritext.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/social-media-objectives-need-connection-to-business/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meritext.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7036321&amp;post=111&amp;subd=meritext&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IT and business &#8211; support and enable</title>
		<link>http://meritext.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/it-and-business-support-and-enable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miia Äkkinen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by today&#8217;s meeting with two social media experts, I decided to re-start blogging. This time in English. The language has been a problem for me because I have wanted to share my thoughts in English but also in Finnish for Finnish companies. A complicated system developed by myself has made the blogging difficult, and &#8230; <a href="http://meritext.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/it-and-business-support-and-enable/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meritext.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7036321&amp;post=97&amp;subd=meritext&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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