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"They are essential skills that are needed to operate in the world and in the workplace," she said. "And people will either need to learn through formal training or through their networks or they will feel increasingly left out."

"The idea of social business is to apply social software to improve and accelerate how work gets done on the inside of the firewall. Whereas social branding -- blogs, wikis, bookmarks, videos, message boards, Facebook, Twitter, and similar tools -- is increasingly being used by companies to communicate with the external world, what's often missing is the application of those same tools and techniques to create an open, supportive culture internally."

Who knew there was such a large, mainstream market for artfully arranged pictures of other people's stuff? Or that "curation," that rarefied and highly specialized skill, would all of a sudden go viral?

In social media, sharing means reposting the content of others (always with a clear link back to them!) or recommending others to your followers. It's no secret that one of the keys to success in building a good following on social media is good sharing skills.