(From CMS Wire) -- Social tools and cloud computing are emerging as key strengths for talent management, while learning compliance is an Achilles heel for many organizations. Those are some of the key takeaways from a new report.

Entitled "The State of Talent Management 2013", the report by SilkRoad is based an online survey last year of more than 5700 professionals, representing a wide range of corporate positions. SilkRoad is a provider of cloud-based social talent management software.

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The report found that forty-three percent of respondents work in organizations with open access to social media. Another 24 percent reported their social media access was monitored and 16 percent had their social media blocked.

Regardless of whether social media is monitored or blocked, the report noted, employees have access to social communications outside of work or through their own mobile devices at work — and most workers access it daily, regardless of restrictions — so the report advised that talent professionals could productively channel its use.

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