Social Media in the workplace

While many may think that social media in the work-place means employees losing hours maintaining their Farmville account, others point to the business benefits.

This week we read a short piece from Jane Hart on how employees can learn from social media while at work.  Her background is Learning and Development which means her work can directly benefit businesses today.

She contends that work of the future will include a more self-directed and self-reliant approach to continuous learning as people do their jobs, and that social media plays a key role in this learning.

She breaks the opportunities into four areas:

• improving productivity
• finding and using content
• joining and building networks and communities
• creating and sharing content.

At Unified Inbox we too have found these areas to be crucial to our work.  Unified Inbox was developed to allow us to take advantage of these opportunities and is the hub that brings these areas together for us.