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Afraid of What, Exactly?

May 10, 2009 by Alan Wolk
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I constantly hear people talk about their fear of letting their employees talk to the public via social media.As if most of them weren't talking to the public every day in the course of business, either in person or on the phone.But the most egregious examples often happen in the mainstream media. Take the PR nightmare for Radisson and... [read more]

Corporate Identity Management on Facebook

April 30, 2009 by Dvir Reznik
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I read the following deck from Joshua Scribner over at Luis Suarez, and although it refers to IBMers, the general idea can be adopted to any employee considering opening a facebook profile and has some privacy concerns.Luis and Joshua are the top 2 BlueIQ ambassadors, an internal IBM program that aims at helping IBMers understand and... [read more]

Employees Will Find Ways to Route Around Corporate Firewalls

April 30, 2009 by Kristopher Nelson
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Image by lloydi via Flickr Study: Employees Will Find Ways to Route Around Corporate Firewalls - ReadWriteWeb: The study also found that users will go to great lengths to route around corporate networks and often use tools like Gbridge, encrypted tunneling applications, and various private and public proxy services to circumvent... [read more]

Are corporate communicators hopeless in social media?

April 21, 2009 by Amy Mengel
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Have you ever had an experience where someone says something that makes you immediately cringe, but you also know that they're at least partly right? I had that reaction a week ago listening in on Social Mediasphere TV, Jim Turner's weekly show on Ustream. His panelists included several social media rockstars, among them Amber Naslund.... [read more]

Should you have a social media department? Corporate blogging news digest

April 15, 2009 by Daryl Pereira
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Should you ensconce all your social media buffs into one team? Geoff Livingston wrote a great post against this siloization (is that a real word?) claiming that social media can touch every part of the organization and so doesn't deserve to be hived off in a special unit (normally within marketing or communications). He makes the point... [read more]

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