Social Media in the Work Place? .. YES!

As the times change social media is becoming more and more involved in the work place. Employees can use this to their advantage and help improve the companies internal and external goals.

Say the company is rather large, and not everyone knows each other, social media can help improve employee relations with in the company.

Say the company works with sales directly to customers, social media can improve sales and client/company relationships.

Like Alison Davis, our guest speaker Monday, said there are at least 31% of CEO's on Facebook for both personal and business relationships. If CEO's are on Facebook, why should employees of these companies be denied social media through out the day.

It's a new form of communicating. Yes, some people may think it can be dangerous but the way the social media train is going , it will become essential in everyones everyday life. Its those people who use social media in a negative way that hurt the idea for others.

The company I personally work for doesn't have any type of social media, but hopefully with the knowledge I receive from this class and the topics we cover I can bring ideas to my supervisors and I can  create a role of the companies Social Media Leader.

Every company in the near future will have some sort of social media, its just how the times are changing.

Kayla Kaplan