A while ago, I blogged here about my research into social media use and knowledge sharing. I will now come back to you with a series of blogs discussing the results of this research. In this blog, I will discuss which social media proved to be most popular and what we like about them.
Which social media do we use?
On average we use 2 social media tools in our work, with individual cases ranging from 0 to 12 tools. Which social media we use can be seen in table 1 below, showing the number and percentage of respondents using a certain tool. LinkedIn is by far the most used social media tool for work purposes; 69% of respondents indicated to use this tool. Other popular tools are Twitter, Facebook and Yammer. Users of Twitter gather the most connections.
| Tool |
# |
% |
| Clearvale |
7 |
2.8 |
|
50 |
19.8 |
|
| Hyves |
12 |
4.7 |
|
175 |
69.2 |
|
|
82 |
32.4 |
|
| Yammer |
46 |
18.2 |
Table 1: Used social media tools
