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Yes, Facebook is distracting, but the reality is that graduates who are entering the workplace have been eating, sleeping, and breathing status updates, blog posts, photo/video uploads, and more. It’s time social media tools are put to good use in the workplace and collaborating in real-time seems like the perfect fit. An article on Mashable couldn’t better define the concept of immediacy when it comes to our obsessive habits when using Facebook and other social media outlets.  We aren’t home five minutes before we are posting pictures from our summer vacations even though we tweeted and updated family and friends everyday of our whereabouts and what we ate for dinner. Imagine how the concept of immediacy at work could change efficiency?

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The four most awesome Hootsuite updates

The Twitterverse no doubt woke up to great joy as the holidays have appeared to come early.  Hootsuite, one of the best free social media management tools, has again raised the bar in their offering by releasing a killer update, all in HTML5.  Here are what I view as the top four updates, and how they can be used.

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