Does having a company leader on social media give that organization a competitive edge? recent survey by Humanize looks at social media and leadership in organizations – in particular, how company leaders are leveraging social media for organizational results. Out of the 505 respondents (who skewed toward “more advanced” social media users), nearly two-thirds of the respondents (64%) reported that their leaders were involved in social media. 84% agree that communicating core values via social media is integral to leadership (46% strongly agree). only 4% think that a leader?s MORE >>

Presentation is everything in the world we live in. Would you rather digest information presented to you in large blocks of text or stunning visual representations? If you favor the latter, infographics will appeal to you. Infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data, or knowledge, and they have become a revolutionary marketing tool. single infographic has the powerful ability to reach a massive audience—up to 15 million to be precise. The first infographic was published in 1626, but it wasn’t until 2009 that infographics really starting gaining widespread popularity. MORE >>

Chess Media Group is hard at work with some big and exciting things for 2013! One of the things we are going to be focusing on is providing more educational and strategic content around collaboration, the future of work, and the future workplace. Based on a lot of conversations we have been having this type of content seems to be high in demand. This first whitepaper we are releasing is on the Business Value of Collaboration. The whitepaper is just a few pages long and looks at the hard and soft benefits of collaboration in the enterprise. A recent report by McKinsey showed that in the U.S. MORE >>

Late last year, Google+ added its Communities, which are much like its name, a circle that is dedicated to a topic that other like-minded people can be a part of, allowing you to grow your network while socializing on subjects that you enjoy. It seems like everyone is making their own community and invites are a constant which means that this is bound to annoy some more than others. You can reject a requested invite or you can turn all community invites completely off or until everyone seems to calm down from the latest feature added o Google+. MORE >>

Hitchhiking (also known as thumbing or hitching) is a means of transportation that is gained by asking people, usually strangers, for a ride. Today the means of hitch hiking is surfing the web and using people or things to get from point A to B. Social hitch hiking is getting connected to people and information through others. The rides are through people and their networks of people or information. Social hitch hiking looks like this: You want to get to someone on Linkedin for whatever reason and they aren’t a 1st degree connection. For some workers, that reality is already close. MORE >>