Manufacturing by Paul Templin
Industrial Engineer's quarterly column about lean manufacturing (February 2011)
Social media: New age marvel or distraction?
By 2009, 200 million people were using Facebook. If you consider YouTube, blogging, tweeting and LinkedIn, any casual observer is struck by the profound impact these new forms of social media have on modern culture. Moreover, like its predecessors, such as email or the Web, social media tools blur the line between on- and off-the-job behavior.
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