Social Media is a good platform for learning and development, and you get free stuff!
Today was day three of my new job with the British Institute for Learning and Development and was the first Net meeting with some of the directors.
Net meetings have come along way since my first ever one a few years back, but I heard today that a government organisation had to travel from London to Bristol in order to conduct a webinar as all types of social media are blocked from their offices.
If we recognise that social media is a platform for connecting, disseminating information, Webinars and therefore good for e-learning and training how can we get companies to come out of the dark ages and see that staff won't be mucking around all day talking to friends on facebook.
If companies have proper forward thinking HR and measure productivity rather than activity they could relax a little and reap the benefits of social media.
Employers that let their staff connect and interact with social media will see the benefits, yes, there are occasions where staff will chatter on social media, but they do that on email, or in the kitchen or at the water cooler, but that is good isn't it?
My wife is a bookkeeper - many times I've phoned, Emailed, Texted, messaged or facebooked to find out how to do such and such with Sage or a spreadsheet etc and I do this with other friends and they do to me too. This means that my employer is accessing and using not just my knowledge but my network's too!
How cool is that? My employer now has a host of unpaid, loyal experts to call up on just because they know me! All because I have a little bit of freedom to engage in networking and social media.
So come on Companies gain the competitive advantage by linking in with a group of free, expert consultants who are ready and willing to help, these consultants won't even drink your coffee, waste time, or even take up some office space.... The cost to you, a little bit of my time when I do a favour for someone else and provide my skills.
You sometimes wonder how companies cope without these free consultants?
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