Engineers and Social Media

I came across this post & infographic, Engineering Social Media Survey:

Courtesy of: CALGAVIN

Does it fit with your use patterns?

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• engineer
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Jim Cahill

• 2 Jul 2013 8:18 PM
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• Mac Lim

  

  • 9 Jul 2013 4:49 AM

  Good information. Thanks.

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• chowyang.neo

  

  • 20 Jul 2013 6:46 AM

  In reply to Mac Lim:

  Social Media looks to be more powerful than we usually think...

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• Jonas Berge

  

  • 14 Nov 2013 12:07 AM

  In reply to chowyang.neo:

  I believe Linkedin is used for work-related networking while Facebook and Twitter is more for private networking. Was there any data in the research confirming or denying this?

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• Youssef.El-Bahtimy

  

  • 14 Nov 2013 1:37 AM

  Twitter is an interesting mix of personal and professional, from what I've seen. All of Emerson Exchange was tweeted,after all.

  There seems to be much more 'interoperability' available for Twitter than LinkedIn posts. I haven't made the jump myself, however.

   

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  I believe Linkedin is used for work-related networking while Facebook and Twitter is more for private networking. Was there any data in the research confirming or denying this?

   

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• Jim Cahill

  

  • 14 Nov 2013 2:26 PM

  In reply to Youssef.El-Bahtimy:

  I find Twitter a better source for news and happenings in the Process Automation industry and use Twitters lists and hashtag filters to get a flavor for what's happening.

  I use Hootsuite and have columns with filters of editors/thought leaders and #PAuto/#ISAuto hashtag searches along with another for Emerson / LBP folks. The lists are subscribable if you want to see them as well. Hootsuite also connects with my LinkedIn status updates & groups, and Facebook pages & groups.

  I think LinkedIn is much more focused around the connections you have and the groups you joined. The discussions are much deeper. Twitter is kind of like the newspaper (for those older than the internet! ) and LinkedIn is more for what's going on with your peers.

  Here's one datapoint of research showing B2B (business-to-business) websites getting most of their visits from social networks now from LinkedIn.

  

  I will say that LinkedIn has made amazing progress over the last year with all the original content they have and they may ultimately become the destination of choice for news and peer interactivity... time will tell!

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• Chris Amstutz

  

  • 15 Nov 2013 3:43 PM

  In reply to Jim Cahill:

  Nice post Jim - I believe each SM channel has it's "Best Use".   Twitter is great for micro-blogging and I'm not sure that LinkedIn could do it as well with the current platform.  I agree with thoughts around deeper conversations occurring on LinkedIn.  It's been a great place for me to connect up with my peers and to find the key players even if they are not that active because they heave been called out by someone else.  Facebook is clearly losing ground in the graphic above and with Twitter going public I'd expect the investment to impact the company although I'm not sure in this space.  thanks for sharing

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• Deanna K Johnson

  

  • 1 Jul 2014 10:00 PM

  In reply to Jim Cahill:

  This is great information.

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