Your Device, Not Your Data – Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Issues
Do you use your own mobile device to do work for your employer? Even if you have just answered a quick text to a co-worker saying they are going to be late for a meeting, you have embraced a version …...
View ArticleControlling the Uncontrollable – Managing Social Media Risks, Part 3 of 3
Social media risks. Your management wants to control them all and push them into a corner. Just like Baby in Dirty Dancing, you can’t put them in a corner. Why? Because you can’t control them....
View ArticleWhen Free Speech isn’t So Free – Why The Constitution Kinda Doesn’t Matter
You are probably going to see a lot of press in the near future that a simple like is protected free speech. Before you start thinking that this is going to allow all sorts of silliness and risk for...
View ArticleFind Your Serenity – Employees and Social Media Access and Risk
It is amazing that employers think that turning things off is the way to manage employee social media risk. Haven’t we learned the axiom, if you can’t hear the kids they are probably in trouble....
View ArticlePolicied to Death – Employees and Social Media (Yet Again)
By now, if you have been reading this blog with any regularity you are familiar with my rant against employee social media policies. In fact, you are probably a bit tired of it. It just seems that...
View ArticleEyes Wide Open – The High Price of Free
Many, including me, have said that if you get something for free, you are being sold, but while that was mostly about information, what other risks are out there for using free. Are you violating...
View ArticleEmployee Social Engagement − Look Past Policies and Towards Empowerment
Employee social media polices are not a tool that enables any type of empowerment. Policies are not positive in nature, let’s just agree on that. If they were positive in nature, they wouldn’t have...
View ArticleEmployee Speech – Your Social Media Problem or Their’s?
Employee grievances on social media are a very thorny area to address. The risks in mis-stepping are huge. You can either look so heavy handed that you risk losing customers when you over-react. You...
View ArticleLeveraging Employees? – Avoiding the Pitfalls of the Social Ownership Question
Employee engagement with customers on social is perhaps the greatest untapped resource at your company. It is also probably one of the greatest risks. We have spent a fair amount of time discussing...
View ArticleDrop Your Social Media Policy Today – Write Something More Positive
Social Media policies, just say no! That has been a recurring theme in these parts. There are very real concerns and risks with employees engaging on social media when they talk about the company...
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