Is Your Office Youngster the Social-Media Whiz?

October 28, 2009 at 7:41 am PT

Stacy DeBroff, founder of the parent-advice site MomCentral.com, says she is constantly calling younger workers into her office for help with social networking.

A twentysomething staffer once showed her an easy way to import her email contacts into her LinkedIn account, instantly adding hundreds of new connections to her profile on the professional-networking site.

“They speak fluently a language that I speak with a strong accent–I am doing digital as a second language,” said Ms. DeBroff, who recently offered a full-time position to one intern who impressed her with his ideas for how the company could use Facebook to promote its clients.

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