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In this episode of The Project Shrink Podcast I am addressing two questions concerning Project Managers and social media: what is the problem that social media is solving and why is it suited to tackle this problem?
This is an introduction to my talk at the PMI EMEA Congress in Amsterdam on the 20th of May called “Everything a Project Manager Should Know About Social Media”. If you visit the event, I would like to shake hands 
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Very nice points, but I have a contention with some of them. For example, when you say one of the ways social media is promoted is by reputation, I am assuming you mean a ‘rep’ or ‘badge’ system? Are project managers who already have 100s of things they need to look at next going to really worry about how many reputation points they have on some social media application? I ask this with a very selfish interest, because my new PM tool is trying to tie in a lot of these social media ideas (we are fostering conversations around specific pieces of work!), and I am having trouble explaining why this is such a breakthrough compared to how projects are done right now.
Hi Diwant, thanks for your question. First, your system sounds interesting!
If an author is only selling books in a local bookstore and only to local people that make their decisions based on only local available information, Amazon review don’t matter.
So if decisions are made using (partly) information available online (by Googling someone’s name e.g.) than the answer is “yes”.
“Reputation” is almost a digital footprint of someones past work.
“Conversations around specific pieces of work” sounds like the Theory of Speach Acts by Flores & Winograd.
Is there maybe a link?
@Bas Oh, so you apply it not specifically to a project, but bring in past reviews and a historical reputation of each team member as well. Interesting.
@Diwant: absolutely! Although we like to see a project as something separate, it isn’t an isolated thing. It’s just an abstraction