Research paper on Social Networking

Introduction

In this rapidly varying business nature, organizations are trying their level best in order to develop competitive advantage by every possible way available to them.

The latest tools and other techniques that are available to the companies are developed for the purpose to expand their in house operations that will help them grow further. For any company one of the most basic and successful tool that can be use is the development of Internet with the help of which, the way companies do business now has changed.

Some great development in the developed countries has been observed in the use of social networking tools and other related technologies. For organizations to be able to compete in this global economy social networking has become a great platform for small and big companies. According to Tullier, 2004 stated that the way companies design their social networks for people who can share their interests or present themselves on the global scale has now become a need for almost every one. 

Social networking was initially considered as the configuration of people for different purposes. One can say that Social Networking was not created after the arrival of Internet but it existed since long before (Cheryl et al., 2008). It existed because of the need that people had to get themselves involved with others for various reasons; the same principle was later implemented in the business context and named as SOCIAL NETWORKING. In the context of business the need to communicate internally and externally has now become a universal condition, through which they promote and advertise themselves in different markets.

Use of social networking site

The use of the Social Network sites on the corporate level has increased up to a great extent, in the case of IBM the company has its own social networking website/software i.e. known as same time which the company encourages its staff to use on the daily basis.

In social network especially for companies like IBM, any reinforcing loop will be incomplete.  Many social networking sites or other tools that are available at present are heavily based on the fact that they encourage users to become the members of the organization or the system where as in IBM it only allows its staff to use such social networking software internally.

SOCIAL NETWORKING TOOLS for SALES

The overall phenomenon of social media has changed drastically in last few years, what used to be only for the communication and social purpose is now one of the most common ways for generating profit and raising awareness for company products and services (Bosari. J, 2012). It’s a fact that majority of the companies do use social networking tools to generate profit, but according to the interviewee IBM strictly does not use ‘SAME TIME’ their social networking tool for any monitory purpose.

USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

No company is allowed to use any personal information of their employees on any social platform, majority of the large organizations like Nestle, Coke, etc make sure that the information of their employees and staff members are secure and in case of any violation of their code of conduct, the company may face some legal issues (Bosari. J, 2012). Same is the case of IBM, the company does not use any personal information of its employee for any networking purpose without their approval. Every employee on joining IBM signs a code of conduct and goes through the guidelines that clearly state the use and share of their information.

 

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