Dr Brent Coker from the Department of Management and Marketing at the University of Melbourne has found that workers who spend no more than 20% of their workplace time in online social networking at work are 9% more productive than those who don’t. He calls this activity Workplace Leisure Internet Browsing or WILB (academics love [...]

Staying connected with your Network is one of the best things you can do in tough times. Have you lost contact with friends and former colleagues over the years?  This can easily happen. Fortunately the Internet makes it easy to reconnect. I once thought that Facebook was only for kids but I have recently come [...]

There is no question that Facebook is a powerful social networking tool. Social Networking sites are creating a revolution no less significant than the Industrial Revolution. Facebook can be addictive.  The random unexpected rewards of friends comments, new friends, flirting, and fame all conspire to fuel the attraction. Social Networking, whether online or in real [...]