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Original Post: 10 Social Media Commandments for Employers, By Gene Connors, Workforce Managment

http://4everydaylife.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/guidelines1.jpgEmployers 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 → ]

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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

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The Fortune 500 and Social Media: A Longitudinal Study of Blogging and Twitter Usage by America’s Largest Companies
Conducted By: Nora Ganim Barnes, Ph.D., Eric Mattson CEO, Financial Insite

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.

In 2009, the Center for Marketing Research at the… [ Read the full article → ]

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This post is a continuation of my series on “How to Make Employees Social Media Ambassadors“. See further down for related links on using employees as social media ambassadors and employee engagement.

The other day, I was sitting at a restaurant bar (as I’m prone to do) and started a conversation with someone — yes, I know, I make for a captivating dinner companion — on how employees are a company’s most under-utilized asset for communicating its… [ Read the full article → ]

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I’m someone who lives what they work, and works what they live. I can’t help it. I’ve always been that way.

But I know a lot of people who successfully separate their professional lives from their personal ones. As companies strive to bring more “work / life” balance  into corporate culture (and I think this is a good thing) is these lines are becoming less defined. As we, as companies, organizations and individuals, use social technologies to share and post information related to our interests or business, we inadvertently blur these lines even more.

Most recently, one of… [ Read the full article → ]

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