据美国马萨诸塞大学市场营销中心主任Nora Ganim Barnes博士的报告显示，2010年全球500强企业的社交网站使用率大幅上升，有83%的企业至少使用过一个社交网站提供的服务；与此同时，企业博客的使用率也增长了5%。

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该报告追踪了500企业最近四年的社交网站使用率，并发现去年使用Twitter、Facebook、Foursquare和Linkedln网站的500强企业大量增加，但仍然还有一些特定行业无意进入这个新领域。

据游戏邦了解，该报告指出这些快速发展的企业足以左右美国的经济状况，它们通过这种交互式科技传达企业信息，可以加强股东对企业运营情况的了解；另外，它们对社交网站的使用率上升，也很有可能对非社交网站用户的合作伙伴产生影响，促使对方也加入这一阵营。

游戏邦还获知，71%的500强企业拥有Facebook页面，拥有Twitter企业帐号的比例是59%；Facebook是44%的企业最经常使用的社交网站。拥有企业博客的公司比例是50%，但同比2009年仅增加5%而已。约有34%的机构还专门制定了员工管理博客的相关政策。

该报告还显示，这些企业对社交网站服务的评价普遍较高，约56%的企业认为社交网站是有效促进商务沟通，推行市场营销策略的有力工具。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

Social Media Usage Exploding Amongst Fortune 500 Companies

Usage of social networks by the Inc. 500 has seen explosive growth in 2010 with 83% of the companies using at least one of the social media sites. Meanwhile, the adoption of blogs by these companies only grew by 5 percent in 2010, according to a benchmarking report of Nora Ganim Barnes, Ph.D., director of the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts.

Bames has been tracking social media usage by Inc. 500 companies for four years now. The report is based on methodologically sound longitudinal study to examine the adoption of social media tools by these businesses.

Barnes stated that:

The adoption of social media by most industries on the 2010 Inc. 500 list continues to grow and now includes Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and LinkedIn. However, during this same time, there are certain industries that have not ventured into this new arena.

These fast growing companies drive the American economy. Their willingness to interact so transparently via interactive technologies with their stakeholders defines them. It will be interesting to watch as they expand their adoption of social media tools and see if they influence some of their non-user peers to join them.

The research showed that social networking remains the winner with 71 percent of the Inc. 500 having corporate Facebook pages and 59 percent having corporate accounts on Twitter. Facebook is stated as the single most effective networking platform by 44 percent of the companies.

The usage of blogs has also increased, with 50 percent of the Inc. 500 having a corporate blog. However, this is merely a 5 percent increase compared to 2009. Around 34 percent of  the institutes studied have developed policies to govern blogging by their employees.

The report further cites favorable reviews by the companies on the adoption of social media tools, with around 56 percent acknowledging that social media has been a very effective communication tool for their business and marketing strategies.（source:socialtimes）