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TABLE 3. TOP SOCIAL NETWORKING PLATFORMS LinkedIn Facebook Sharepoint Twitter Custom/in-house LMS solution 52% 44% 40% 34% 22% 18% works for business participate in multiple networks. Sixty-eight percent report two or more, up from 59% in 2009. And 25% report using one and 7% plan to use. HR/training, sales and marketing, and IT are the top users of social networking for business in this study. When it comes to the investment decision, corporate management leads 32% of the time. CIO/IT (20%), sales & marketing (20%) and "no one" (13%) follow. Last year, "no one" was the highest category at 21%, indicating owners are being located and sourcing more branded solutions. In 2009, the audience was twice as like- ly to leverage business use of social net- works to gain content expertise than the general business audience. In 2010, infor- mation sourcing and personal connec- tions still top the list of business uses, but at much higher levels. ONLINE COMMUNITIES & COLLABORATION Enterprise collaboration technologies (CTC) are well established in today's enterprise, while online communities (OLC) lag slightly. Eighty-two percent of respondents use or plan to use online communities (OLC) for work. They have used (OLC) for 22.8 months on average. And 55% participate in two or more OLCs, up from 44% in 2009. In comparison, CTC are defined as real- time communication tools (like GoToMeeting) as well as tools that facili- tate group work like desktop sharing and group calendars (like Daptiv and SocialText). Ninety-two percent of respon- dents use CTC for work. They are more established in enterprises with respondents leveraging for 46.2 months on average. The most valued application of OLC is for training education (34%) followed by "to connect with colleagues within our organization" (31%). For CTC, the most valued application is training and educa- tion (61%), followed by "to support dis- cussions between geographically distrib- Web Seminar Series Join us for these engaging live and on-demand learning sessions: Live Sessions: >> Up Your Engagement Quotient with 10 Practical Skills >> Report: E-learning Trends & Practices >> Best Practices: Enterprise Learning >> eGovernment Roundtable >> Best of Elearning! Awards On-Demand: >> Motivating Teams from a Distance >> Launching Global Learning at Xerox >> Social Learning at Telus & The Federal Reserve >> Ask The Experts: E-learning Development >> Reinventing Learning at Essilor Don't miss another valuable learning experience. Hear from power users, analysts and experts. Register Now! Sign up for the complimentary Elearning! Web Seminar Series at: http://www.2elearning.com/events/ current-events.html. Sponsored by: Annual 2010 21 Government Elearning! Government