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"HR departments are familiar with using LinkedIn, Twitter and external social networks for leveraging talent, but what benefits can they get from using an internal social network at work? I joined the HR department at TIBCO® over a year ago, around the same time we were starting to use our internal social network tibbr®. Since then, I’ve become quite a power user. Why? Here are my top five reasons (in no particular order):"

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"A new study released today takes a closer look at this generation and its employment trends—with statistics culled from the social network that defines Gen Y: Facebook.

Millennial Branding together with Identified.com, studied 4 million Gen Y Facebook profiles to obtain better insight into how members of this generation operate professionally—a topic of increasing importance as they are projected to make up 75 percent of the workforce by 2025. "

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"One person is the Decider for final design choices. Not focus groups. Not data crunchers. Not committee consensus-builders. The decisions reflect the sensibility of just one person: Steven P. Jobs, the C.E.O.

By contrast, Google has followed the conventional approach, with lots of people playing a role. That group prefers to rely on experimental data, not designers, to guide its decisions. "

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"Brennan starts by saying that business is going through a transformation and top-down leadership no longer works well for companies. But he believes that too many of his managers still operate in a "command-and-control reflex." "

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"If you are like most business executives, you are struggling to justify the value of all this social business stuff in your heads let alone across the table from the rest of the management team. Don’t get me wrong, there are folks getting some good wins from the social media marketing on Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.; but we all know that mainstream business isn’t buying the “build it and they will come” in a recessionary economy. Most senior executives bought the farm on the “web” and realize that much of the hype needs to settle before setting sail on the good ship “social business”."

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"Even if we set aside the truly productive HR departments, the problem is all the other HR departments that are unnecessary and counterproductive. Let's look at what HR does, and how it could be done better by another corporate function:"

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I've previously pondered over how we could possibly work with HR to ensure success for KM and can perhaps summarize some of the key points as follows: (I am assuming that the points below represent key components in HR strategies)

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Malcolm Gladwell on the challenge of hiring in the modern world. From “Stories from the Near Future,” the 2008 New Yorker Conference.

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