This year on Twitter
Editor’s note: Twitter’s end of year round-up is worth looking around (there is plenty of it). Great example of how to present data as well as to see what people have been talking about on a global level.
Browsing: social media
Social media in HR infographic
Editor’s note: Only 32% of employees use social media for L&D and other stats from recent CIPD research into social media.
#missingout? CIPD research finds the ‘social business’ is out there, but it hasn’t gone viral yet
Editor’s note: Research from the CIPD shows that workers are using social tools outside of work but far less inside work. Still some work to do by organisations then . . .
Challenge for HR as social media occupies bulk of workers’ day
Editor’s note: Nothing like a good social media/productivity scare story to focus the mind on how social media can help boost productivity.
10 surprising social media statistics that might make you rethink your social strategy
Editor’s note: Good to see stats that might challenge perceptions around social media usage. Look at the fastest growing cohort on Twitter, for example.
Personality, gender, and age in the language of social media: the open-vocabulary approach
Editor’s note: Analysis of how we use language across social media sites to describe personality, gender, and age and how personality and behaviour can be mapped through language analysis.
The Twitter of tomorrow
Editor’s note: Twitter is set for a redesign soon. So what’s coming?
E-books could be the future of social media
Editor’s note: A look at the Readmill app that turns every book into a social network. Could this be the future of ebooks? And how could L&D use this approach to content?
Which should I leave first, Twitter or Facebook?
Editor’s note: In the light of threats and more and more trolls, Paul Mason looks at the future of Twitter.
68% of CEOs still aren’t on any social networks whatsoever
Editor’s note: Depressing stats for those organisations that see senior team buy-in as a part of the secret sauce for social media success.
Job hunters turned off by ‘unprofessional social media’
Editor’s note: Bit left field this one but it makes a good point – that social media used as just another communications channel misses the opportunity that this transformational technology brings. A lesson for L&D maybe?
Social media policies
Editor’s note: Great curation of social media policy videos from @allthingsIC – also a lesson in the power of creating playlists on Youtube.
Twitter makes crowds less predictable
Editor’s note: The social physics of highly connected crowds based on the uprisings in Turkey.
Social media activity linked to narcissism
Editor’s note: Not surprising? The amount of social media activity a person takes part in is linked to their level of narcissism, new research has suggested.
Employees want social tools at work
Editor’s note: A survey by Microsoft reveals social tools at work help increase productivity for half of employees and more than 30 percent of companies underestimate the value of these tools and often restrict their use. Thanks to @donaldhtaylor for sharing