Higher Cert in Business
Written Communication
Mark Dunne
20067332
Workplace Impact of Social Media
1 Introduction
This report summarises an article written by (Bennett et al.,2009). It will focus on the benefits of social networking and the disadvantages of social networking.
1.1 Social networking
Social networking is the practice of expanding ones business contacts or social contacts by making connections with people all over the world.
1.2 Benefits of social networking in the workplace.
Social networking now plays an instrumental part in today’s world of business. Nardi (2002) argues that employee’s social networks lay an important place in the workplace, stating that social networking is crucial to businesses that require teamwork. Lange (2008) supports this view and says that social networks are very efficient means of initiating and maintaining contacts with a company’s different sectors anywhere in the world.
By maintaining contact anywhere in the world, tasks can be done quicker and more efficiently even if you are somewhere else in the world. These sites help provide workers with a chatroom, instant messaging, discussion groups, blogging, emails and videos of work. When social networking entered the public domain, many recognised it as an opportunity to further enhance work-based communication practices (Nardi, 2002).
1.3 Critique
I find with this article that it highlights all the benefits of social networking. It praises social networking, and it gives no real negative response towards it. The article is also very repetitive. It tends to say the same things about social networking over and over again such as how beneficial it is to the workplace.
1.4 Conclusion
In conclusion this article summarises the impact that social networking has on the workplace and how it can stand between a profit or loss in the world of business in the Twenty first