Social media

Douglas Karr, President and CEO of DK New Media was the guest speaker at Indiana Leadership Association Conference—Leadership ’09. Doug is a blogging, media development consultant. He consults on Online Marketing, Social Media and Corporate Blogging Strategies. He is the Vice President of Blogging Evangelism for Compendium Blogware. Doug designed, co-founded and implemented Smaller Indiana, a Ning Social networking application. Smaller Indiana is the most popular social network in Indiana for business leaders and professionals.

The notion of informal learning is changing given the widespread use of technologies to learn, connect and communicate. In today’s world most learning is done by asking other people how to do things using social networks and other technologies. The opportunity for leadership organizations is—how can we use social networks to harness knowledge within communities and create structures to support this increasingly informal way of learning and connecting.