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Is Your Office Social Media Policy Social or Anti-Social?

  • April 17th, 2012 by Ann Smarty
In today’s 24/7 information age, having a social media policy in place for your business proves more important than ever. For some companies, letting employees use social media during the day is beneficial in helping to promote the business, while others shy away from having workers taking to Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other social venues. As a small business owner,… Read more

Building a Web 2.0 Ready Firewall

  • October 31st, 2011 by Damian Davila
While the latest wave of Internet services, ranging from Salesforce to Google Docs to Skype, has incremented the productivity of workers around the world, it has at the same time introduced new challenges for IT departments everywhere.

The Challenge

In the past, IT departments could rely on standard firewalls and harware tools to keep malicious hackers at bay, but the… Read more

Is Social Networking Blocked in Your Workplace?

  • March 1st, 2011 by SEM Contributor
Are social networks like Facebook and Twitter blocked in your workplace? Luckily, I work for a company that encourages the use of Twitter (not so much Facebook) during the working day but a friend of mine can’t access these types of websites at all where he works. I can understand that employers would be worried about their employees wasting time… Read more