Work Smarter with Social Media

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Introduction

This book is your chance to take back control of your working life—not from the Internet, but with it.

Each year, we spend a larger and larger portion of our lives online. Americans now spend more than twenty-three hours a week on email, social media, and other online communications. Social media users spend an average of more than three hours a day on social networks. And a third of working Internet users say that the Internet, email, and cell phones increase the total amount of time they spend working.

Ironically, the tools that allow us to do all that online work often compound the problem of digital overload. In addition to following the latest news on Twitter, building our networks on LinkedIn, and staying on top of our colleagues’ ...