Compared to the linear, process-focused nature of traditional business systems, social apps encourage people to engage and connect in real-time across departments and lines of business.

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We do this with discourse on Facebook, chatting on Twitter, joining business networking groups, getting together for chick-talk and in the process, help to keep one another focused in ways men find difficult to pattern.

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