A new international survey, conducted by BizInfo and Blackline, the social media agency of Leads United, found that apart form increasing productivity:

• 65,3% business professionals say that web 2.0 services allow them to achieve business objectives and
• 78,1% believe they help increase collaboration among employees.

To the 557 respondents of our survey, "Social Networking" appears to be the most used Web2.0 service (95.3%), followed by Blogs (51.2%), RSS (49.9%) and Wikis (47.2%).

Online social networks are used daily for professional purposes by 32,5% of the respondents and at least once a week for 80.1%.

The top 3 social networking sites used for professional purposes are LinkedIn (94%), Facebook (46.3%) and Plaxo (41.2%).

You can read the full press release here.