A few months ago I was asked to provide my thoughts on an article being written by Jeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyerd in an upcoming edition of People & Strategy. The title was "Five Myths and Realities When Considering Using Social Media Inside the Company" As it's been recently published, I thought I'd push to you those 5 Myths that were presented and my response that followed. I'd encourage everyone to grab the complete article (linked below) as there were a few others included within the responses that did a great job summarizing their thoughts on the topics. I wonder where you might come out on the following...

1. Social media is a time waster at work and should be banned.
2. Social media is a fad and will fade away in a few years.
3. If you build it, they will come...
4. My employee population is too old to deal with social media for learning.
5. Social Media is difficult to measure in terms of a return on investment.

All great topics and presented nicely by Meister and Willyerd who co-authored the book, "The 2020 Workplace" - a book I'd highly recommend that anyone check out.

Wondering where I landed on the topics? My response was as follows...