This document discusses the potential benefits and drawbacks of using social networking in the workplace. It notes that social media use is widespread both nationally and in the local borough. Potential benefits include facilitating connections between employees that could share useful information, engaging staff through tools like Yammer, and cost savings through shifting communications to cheaper channels like the web. However, social media could also be a source of time wasting. The document raises questions about whether social networking supports transparency and open data as part of the government's agenda.

1. Social Networking in the
workplace
Resources SLT
Friday 1st April 2011

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Real people, real connections

3. Photo credit: Facebook blog
Real people, thousands of connections

4. Who will be
the next
connection? What will
they
know
that you
need to
know?
Photo credit: segozyme
Who do they know that you want to know?

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Why should we care?

6. Who will be the next connection?

7. What will they know that you need to know?

8. Who do they know that you need to know?

9. Borough social media
use
•Facebook = 46.2%
•Facebook (aged 16–24) =
95.5%
•YouTube = 37.3%
•MSN = 21.2%
•Twitter = 6.1%
National social media
use
•Facebook = approx. 50%
Why should we care?

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Tools to do the job

11. Time wasting?

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Water – Jason Pratt
Bin – A Mulligan
Phone - GadgetDan
Time wasting

13. Yammer – staff engagement

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10:10 - Guardian
Meeting room - Aaron Gustafson
Car - Mark Wubben
Silo - Andrea Kirby
Cost saving?

15. Face to face
£7.40
Phone
£2.90
Web
32p
Cost saving – ‘channel shift’

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Kettle stopthegears
Fish Tank
tuldas
Open Data?

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Part of the 'Transparency Agenda'