Social media is typically associated with leisure, yet professional skill development and management training can be effectively weaned out of the same as well. Podcasts are a great learning tool as they have recorded sessions. Major industry influencers’ hash tags must be tracked on Twitter to listen to their inspirational points. Similarly one can be regular readers of key bloggers or blogging forums. Twitter can also help us to stay in touch with latest industry trends and to listen to what people generally have to stay about things. LinkedIn can be used to network with a wide variety of professionals. For networking with people sharing similar interests or skills, one can always go to Facebook, LinkedIn or even Slack. In case, professionals ever get bored by typical power point presentations or excel files, they can look up to Pinterest and see in what interesting manner, info-graphics may be presented. Source: https://hbr.org/2016/08/using-social-media-to-build-professional-skills