Facebook and the workplace

If your office hasn't been affected by Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and the like, you better go check your Internet connection. It may be disconnected!

Social Media is being had for good and evil by every nation, kindred, tongue, people - and business.

Some businesses are using it to boost awareness, increase exposure, launch new products, create or solidify their brand, and educate their customers (and potential customers). Good stuff.

Other businesses are merely being sucked into the effects of social media and suffering the consequences - lost productivity, lost opportunity, and lost profits due to employees wasting time - and lots of it on social media sites.

Whether you are using it to help your business, or your employees are on it all day long instead of getting their job done and servicing your customers, it is all about knowing how to deal with it.

In our next couple blogs, we will be talking about how to use social media for good, and how to stop it from having a negative effect on your business.