GigaOm on Social Media in the workplace

The bottom line from this report (at least the parts that I care about, viz., people in their first jobs out of college...
- The mobile phone is, increasingly, the most important device that they care about
- They are inveterate users of Facebook and twitter at work.
- Only 32% prefer to keep their private and professional lives separate. Or, put differently, 68% have no issues blurring the lines

Well, this certainly applies to me, and I'm certainly not "just out of college"....

Social media, multi-tasking and the death of the billable hour

Thanks to the web and social media, interruptions have become not just a way of life, but a way to work according to survey data out from Cisco. The networking giant found that among college students and young professionals, 24 percent experience three to five interruptions in a given hour, while 84 percent get interrupted at least once (more...)