Social Media
Employee access to social media
As the owner of the Stop Blocking site (www.stopblocking.org), I advocate for open employee access to social media. Yet I am a business advocate. The organization, when setting good policies and processes, benefits when employees can tap into their social graphs. This Storify story will include items related to the arguments against blocking as well as the benefits organizations can realize.
The Coworker NetworkMeetings around the watercooler or over lunch are as traditional as the workplace suit and tie. But today, companies are looking for more innovative ways to bring employees together. Connecting people with different kinds of knowledge fosters new services and ideas, says Paul Leonardi, a professor of communication at Northwestern University with an appointment at the Kellogg School.
You Paid For It: Public Employees and Social MediaCENTRAL ILLINOIS - Social media, it's how most of us stay connected. But what if public employees were abusing it and wasting your ta...
Use 5 or More Social Networks? You're a Better EmployeeHey, bosses who block employees from using social media at work: You're doing it wrong. That's one conclusion that can be drawn from new ...
The Best Content Marketing Is FreeYou desperately need more online content: You want more people to talk about your products, your services, and your company. You could definitely use the SEO boost, too. And you want to better engage your customers and hopefully even create a community.
Companies Enable Employee Use of Consumer Technologies, New Avanade Study Finds: Progressive Companies Accept New Work Approaches, Apply New Business Processes and Realize ResultsAvanade, a global business technology solutions and managed services provider, today released results from a global survey of nearly 600 ...
Social Media Use at Work is For Work, Research SaysSix in 10 employees access social media multiple times a day at work, according to research released today from SilkRoad Technology. The social talent management software company also found that nearly half of those people are logging on to connect with coworkers, with connecting with customers the third most popular reason, at 44 percent (simply connecting with others was number two, at 47 percent).
Employers' Social Media Policies Come Under Regulatory ScrutinyEmployers often seek to discourage comments that paint them in a negative light. Don't discuss company matters publicly, a typical social media policy will say, and don't disparage managers, co-workers or the company itself. Violations can be a firing offense. But in a series of recent rulings and advisories, labor regulators have declared many such blanket restrictions illegal.
Social Media On the Job: New Study Finds Employers Still Struggling With Ways to Balance Protecting Their Businesses with Ensuring Employee Freedom of ExpressionWith more than three quarters of companies using social media for business purposes and almost half allowing employees to use social medi...
Social media largely used in workplace to connect with coworkers – surveySome employees do not allow the use of social media at the workplace, and will block access from sites on computers. This however may not...
Tech Connect: Is blocking social media a good idea?We are often asked by clients to give them tools to block employees from using websites and social media while at work. While such tools ...
Social Media Policy & Workplace Collaboration [INFOGRAPHIC]By Jaclyn on October 3rd, 2012 Organizations are engaged in a complex balancing act concerning social media, as they weigh the competitiv...- The following piece with David Armano speaks to value that accrues to the organization -- value that will never emerge if employee access is blocked.
David Armano: Being Friends With Your Client On Facebook Works - PSFKAs part of our Future of Work Series, PSFK reached out to experts to get their take on the changes we identified that are currently going...
Why You Must Not Block Employees from Social NetworksOctober 4, 2012 Companies of all sizes still fear social media, yet it can serve as a major recruiting tool to attract Generation Y emplo...- MediaPost Publications One In Five Job-Seekers Reject Employers Who Ban Social Media 09/18/2012One in five job-seekers (19.7%) say they would refuse to work for an employer who didn't allow them to access social media in the workpla...
Is social media a right or a risk in the workplace?While less tech-savvy employees may be comfortable with restricted social media access at work, the more digitally-minded, whom employers...
How Finding "Exceptions" Can Jump Start Your Social InitiativeMany senior executives still think of social media as something you do after hours for fun, says John Hagel, co-chairman of the Deloitte ...
The $1.3 Trillion Price Of Not Tweeting At WorkOn June 6, Larry Ellison--CEO of Oracle, one of the largest and most advanced computer technology corporations in the world--tweeted for ...
Social-media tools can boost productivityIn this digital age, U.S. physicians still send and receive some 15 billion faxes a year. But not Dr. Howard Luks, chief of sports medici...- Social Media Shunned by CIOs as 67% Block Facebook | Business WireLONDON--()--European CIOs are shunning the benefits of social media for business, reveals a study from Easynet andIpanema Technologies. C...
A Little 'Like' Can Mean Big TroubleWhile some employers monitor social-media use, in many cases Facebook "friends" and co-workers alert management about posts. Ph...
Workzone: Employers continue warming to social networking usagebased Gartner Inc. project that by 2014, fewer than 30 percent of large employers will block employee access to social media sites, compa...
Social Media Policies At GM, Target, DISH Network Deemed Unlawful By Labor ...WASHINGTON -- In an effort to control employees' activities on Facebook and Twitter, some US companies have instituted social media p...
Look Before You 'Like' -- Your Employer May Start to Monitor YouBack in March, debate raged about whether or not businesses had the right to access employees' Facebook accounts. Within days, Facebook r...
