Learning Social-Media Smarts

The digital divide is shrinking - at least in the workplace. Employees are more savvy than ever before, everyone seems to be a programmer or a blogger these days. So its critical for corporate leadership to recognize this and to look for ways to harness these skills to increase operational efficiency and productivity.

Amplify’d from www.wallstreetjournal.com

In their private lives, users of Facebook, Twitter and other social media are completely at ease forming communities of shared interests and keeping everyone up-to-date with messages, pictures and documents. Now they are ready to put those same tools to work at the office—to help everyone see who knows what, who needs what information, and how to coordinate their work.

Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are some of the first collaboration models your workers encountered, but they won't be the last. Some of your employees may now be experimenting with mobile video and location-aware applications. Always be willing to learn from employees about new technologies. Read more at www.wallstreetjournal.com

 

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