Original Post: 10 Social Media Commandments for Employers, By Gene Connors, Workforce Managment
Employers must implement social networking policies, obtain employee consent for monitoring and conduct their monitoring legally and responsibly. By following these 10 guidelines, employers ensure that their employees can enjoy social media without employer static and interference.
With apologies to Shakespeare, who was quite the networker himself in Elizabethan times, to network or not to network is not the question. Social media is a fact of life for millions of people… [ Read the full article → ]
I definitely like the concept of social tagging for intranet content, and if implemented and adopted, could be an extremely effective way to make sure that employees find content. It also puts more “control” in the hands of the users to tag content that is valuable to them versus solely relying on search that relies on appropriate metatagging, which, as most of us know, only works as well as it has been metatagged. The article below gives wonderful insight into what social tagging is and why there are sound reasons to consider it for the enterprise. On top of
Original Post: Who Knows What?, by DORIT NEVO, IZAK BENBASAT And YAIR WAND, The Wall Street Journal
Every big company has in-house experts. So why don’t they use them more?
In-house experts, with their specialized knowledge and skills, could be invaluable to both colleagues and managers. But often workers who could use their help in other departments and locations don’t even know they exist.
Talk about a waste! Because of an inability to tap expertise, problems go unsolved, new ideas never get imagined, employees feel underutilized and underappreciated. These are things… [ Read the full article → ]
Due to the hugely influential role of Fortune Magazine’s list of America’s largest corporations (“Fortune 500″) play in the business world, studying their usage of new technological tools like social media offers important insights into the future of commerce.
