academic writing assignment -

The individual assignment will explore the implementation of knowledge management processes and how these impact upon innovation in a commercially developed SOCIAL NETWORK service of your choice. This involves producing an individual formal report (max 2500 words excluding references). It is expected that an in-depth investigation and analysis is undertaken to determine the nature and extent of the issues and processes involved in how the global acceptance of the service was achieved. Examples may be drawn through research into one of the many well formulated networks currently available, ie; Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Google, Linkedin, NING, Writeboard, Storybird, etc. You should analyse the issues relating to the exploitation of knowledge and innovation within the organization through a consideration of developments in the field by providing insightful explanations of current and future successes. The report should provide an academic analysis by recalling the theories and approaches that are relevant to the topic of the group-work. You may structure your report to include any relevant tables or diagrams with a suggested format as: nature of knowledge and how it may be managed, contextual analysis of social network provider (of your choice) and the issues relating to the exploitation of innovation in this respect. The individual report should reflect: • Ability to identify diverse and high quality sources of information (a minimum of 40 references are required from different sources,recent ones (2010,2011). These should include: academic journals/ books/ trade publications, government and industry data, websites, etc. • Demonstration of clear understanding and synthesise of the available information in order to gain an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the topic(s). • Ability to discuss complex information clearly and concisely, and to construct coherent and logical arguments. • Ability to present your findings in a professional and well structured report format, including effective use of figures, tables, appendices and referencing (Harvard Style is required). It is essential that your research should include novel, thoughtful analysis and its impacts of social network innovation. Referencing and incorporation of ideas from multiple sources. VERY IMPORTANT I need 2 of them they need to be totally different yet need to be on the same topic and need to be on facebook. minimum of 40 refs (new journals 2010-2011 with a high ABS ranking), including newspapers, articles, etc. i will also send you a structure for the same.