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Is Using Social Media at Work a Good Idea?

On The Job

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Thursday, July 22, 2010 Is Using Social Media at Work a Good Idea? They Twitter. Facebook announced this week is has 500 million users. They comment on blogs. Thats just reality.

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A day in the life: Lorna Cowan, Visit Belfast

Practically Perfect PA

One of the great benefits of running Practically Perfect PA is the chance to meet some extraordinary assistants either face to face or through social media. If time permits I like to have a quick breakfast and read a chapter of whatever book I’m reading or I’ll catch up on social media (I’m addicted to Twitter!

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Administrative/Clerical: What is Your Biggest Office Productivity Killer?

Office Dynamics

You can also suggest preparing a formal agenda for each meeting so that your colleagues do not start killing time discussing other topics. Social networking is fun, but it won''t boost your office productivity. In the OfficeTime survey, 75 percent of the people who responded said they spend up to two hours per day using social media.

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Be yourself, Cowboy.

Virtual Moxie

on Sunday, I settled in at home with some tea, and time to focus on Social Media. There is no sheriff of Social Media town. That’s all that ANY of the folks involved in Internet marketing and Social Media marketing are doing. Sometimes, no agenda is the best agenda. There are no laws.

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Are You Stealing from Your Profitability (and don’t even know it)?

Stephanie LH Calahan

I find that every time I share the quotes to the right on Facebook or Twitter they get shared and re-shared.  For example, if you are spending hours daily on Twitter and Facebook telling yourself that you are “growing your business” through building relationships, you are stealing from yourself. That one realization saved me 2.5

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On the Job by Anita Bruzzese: 4 Ways to Make Meetings Better

On The Job

Gerbyshak says meetings often bog down when agendas are misplaced, which Song says can be solved by sending agendas electronically so that it can be easily accessed via a laptop or Blackberry or iPhone when needed. Now the agenda is strapped to your hip,” Song says. “No than what is on the agenda?” No more waiting around.”

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Why Downtime Leads to More Time

Productivityist

Urgency never really was a problem with this strategy, and neither was running into an issue with falling short with the important things on my agenda. I assembled a means of keeping flow through an uninterrupted approach. And it worked. My biggest asset (after preparation) was willpower. Photo credit: Matt Reinbold (CC BY 2.0)

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