<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b60b796d-6045-4568-80c7-c70b6ed1cfaa/E3C3EF6E-F5EB-4A14-BE0E-70120633AD8B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.techworld.com.au/article/325576/business_use_twitter_facebook_exploding?fp=4&amp;fpid=3" href="http://www.techworld.com.au/article/325576/business_use_twitter_facebook_exploding?fp=4&amp;fpid=3" style="font-size: 11px;">www.techworld.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techworld.com.au/article/325576/business_use_twitter_facebook_exploding?fp=4&amp;fpid=3"><P class="storybody">The use of social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook to promote businesses has exploded over the past six months, according to the results of a study that were released today. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techworld.com.au/article/325576/business_use_twitter_facebook_exploding?fp=4&amp;fpid=3"><P class="storybody">People using Twitter to get the word out about their company, sales and promotions jumped more than 250 per cent from this past spring, according to a study done by <A target="_blank" href="http://www.paloaltonetworks.com">Palo Alto Networks</A> , a maker of firewall technology. The number of companies using facebook for such tasks grew by 192 per cent, the sudy found. The report said that workers are using social networks as promotional vehicles both with and without management knowledge. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techworld.com.au/article/325576/business_use_twitter_facebook_exploding?fp=4&amp;fpid=3">an IT staffing firm, 54 per cent of U.S. companies say that they have <A target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139020/Study_54_of_companies_ban_Facebook_Twitter_at_work">banned workers</A> from using social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace while on the job</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techworld.com.au/article/325576/business_use_twitter_facebook_exploding?fp=4&amp;fpid=3"><P class="storybody">And executives may have good reason to ban employees from using the social networking sites during business hours. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E3C3EF6E-F5EB-4A14-BE0E-70120633AD8B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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