There are numerous benefits to having someone with social influence work for your company. Say your developer has a large following on Twitter.
- Any problem that they don't know how to solve can be solicited to x number of people.
- If they encounter a bug in 3rd party software that your company uses and publicly bitch about it, the better chance you have to get a timely fix.
- If your company uses/creates open source software, it is more visibile, and there is a greater likelihood that more people will contribute to it.
- They market your company.
- They attract more desirable hires.
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There are numerous benefits to having someone with social influence work for your company. Say your developer has a large following on Twitter.
- Any problem that they don't know how to solve can be solicited to x number of people. - If they encounter a bug in 3rd party software that your company uses and publicly bitch about it, the better chance you have to get a timely fix. - If your company uses/creates open source software, it is more visibile, and there is a greater likelihood that more people will contribute to it. - They market your company. - They attract more desirable hires.