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Who needs an expensive social media consultant when you can train your employees in Twitter, Facebook andLinkedIn best practices yourself?

This Mindflash infographic breaks down the types of social media users you’ll find in your company — the digital native, savvy technologist, reluctant user, digital newby and digital contrarian — and how to approach training each of them.

This guide also highlights an important fact: 76% of companies do not have a clearly defined social media policy. Whether or not you have an explicit policy, make sure you’re aware of the way everyone in your company represents your brand.

What do you think its most important for companies to teach their employees about social media? Share your best practices in the comments.

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Employers and employees never seem to be at ease with each other. While organizations make fortunes due to hard work put in by the employees, the employers still want them to do more, and more and still more so employers could buy new coffers to stuff in the profits.

On the other hand, the employees lament of long work hours, lesser facilities, non-stop work hours and absence of good words from their employers for earning profits for them. 

it seems no one is happy - perhaps the do more notion has crept into everyone's mindset so hard that no matter how much hard work is put in by the workers, it fails to satisfy the employers.

However trends are changing for good. As per the survey below carried out by PayScale.com, a postive trend seems to be setting in and employers seem to be realising the plight of their workers and may provide them relief. As per the survey carried out, almost all employers seemed to be willing to provide compensation and relief to their employees.

If we go by the survey below, we see 2012 as a welcome year for the employees and a true gift to them by their employers:

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