I’ve been wondering for a while about job and human productivity versus social media in the work place. I wondered while observing the service manager at my auto dealership scream with frustration about the owner encouraging employees to check out their dealership Facebook Fan page but blocked Facebook from employee computers. I wondered as my husband removed all social media tools from 46 employee computers to avoid a further drop in productivity.
Today I read Anita Bruzzese, Gannett’s USA Today article “Procrastinators can limit social-media time with resolve, tech tools“! So now we have tools to keep us from wasting time on Facebook, Twitter and Google??? I knew this was coming 
Most interesting was an automated time tracking, management productivity tool which promises to help. RescueTime.com will recover 4 hours per week of my time. I’m watching the video now and wondering what is the cost to recover those 4 hours. Ah, Rescue Time Solo is free … cool! Check it out.
Thanks for a great article, Anita and thanks for your suggestions to save time and be more productive. Also thanks to Twitter_Tips r/t Using Twitter to procrastinate? You need to read this: http://j.mp/aitl4A [USAToday] for this tweet … which began my sharing of original information.
This is a great example of the power of social media tools - Twitter and blog posts -to spread information. Just be sure to ask yourself how much time you’re wasting and how much time using social media tools is productive.
Please leave a comment if you think your time on Facebook, Twitter and other social media tools is productive or if you think you should use your time more wisely.
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I’m a consultant working with Palo Alto Networks; they have an excellent whitepaper on the subject of blocking social networking apps that you may have to worry about, “To Block or Not. Is that the question?” here: http://bit.ly/d2NZRp. It has lots of insightful and useful information about identifying and controlling Enterprise 2.0 apps (Facebook, Twitter, Skype, etc.) Let me know what you think.
You can also register for this webinar now that looks really forward thinkin. It delves into social media and the role it will play in the future of the business world http://bit.ly/cR80Al
Thanks Kelly – will check it out.