If I’d taken at face value the WhatsApp news on Sierra Leone in the last few days, I would have described Sierra Leone as a country monitored by a sudden and unprecedented influx of UN peacekeepers, where opposition party meetings are infiltrated by governing party spies, the work of ruling party MPs is undermined by opposition double-agents and mysterious militia men, intent on disrupting the elections on the orders of God alone knows who, are roaming the forests of Sierra L

Perhaps the biggest sign of social media’s maturity is its emergence as a valid workplace tool, where once it was banned – to wit Workplace by Facebook – the social media giant’s new enterprise communication and collaboration network. The Society for Human Resource Management says: “Not only has social media changed the way we communicate, but these applications present great opportunities for businesses in the areas of public relations, internal and external communications,

Worldwide, there are over 3 billion internet users—and over 2 billion of them have active social media accounts. In 2018, it is estimated that there will be around 2.67 billion social media users around the globe, up from 2.34 billion in 2016. Amongst them, there must be an awful lot of existing and potential colleagues, clients, collaborators and customers. Popular social platforms have become essential marketing tools, offering businesses valuable data about their customers