54% of Employers Don’t Understand Social Networking
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I’ve been a proponent of social networking and media sites almost since they came of age earlier this decade. Early sites such as Friendster hardly made a dent in our collective consciousness but MySpace and then Facebook blew the lid wide open and now we have LinkedIn and Twitter being used as common household words. Thank goodness. People are finally understanding that …
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54% of Employers Don’t Understand Social Networking
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