Workplaces need to embrace social networking tools
October 30, 2008 by Colleen Coplick
Filed under Social Media
We’ve all heard the ‘horror’ stories. IT departments who block Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and MySpace. We’ve all got friends who can’t access even personal email until they get home in the evening. Personally, I think it’s silly, because of some of the massive benefits that I, and others I know, have experienced through social networking.
A study completed by the UK ‘think tank’ and research firm, Demos, is trying to convince enterprise bosses to embrace the new technologies.
Any attempt to control employee’s participation on these sites can limit the way staff communicate, as the Demos study said, but also, can limit …read more
