The Need for Corporate Social Media Policies

By Stephen Rouse - 2 months ago

Several of our clients are now talking about the "consumerization of the enterprise" which could significantly change the old workplace paradigm of sitting at a workstation and collaborating mostly with email and IM. As a new generation of twentysomething employees who use Facebook, Youtube and Twitter at home on on the road enter the workplace they will be looking to use these various new "consumer" social technologies to perform tasks. But with these new technologies will come the need for businesses to review existing communications policies and develop new policies and practices to ensure employees don't unintentionally damage the company's reputation or release competitive information.

Mark Evans has written a recent post that lays the issue bare, along with a link to IBM social media practices.

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