Should we be social networking at work?
By Jason Slater in Reader
Posted in Management, Internet on July 21, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Whether or not to allow the use of social networking sites at work is a current meme; I seem to be reading about it here there and everywhere. Is allowing the use of these sites really acceptable at work during work?
As part of our ongoing Internet usage policy review we have been evaluating whether it should be allowable to use social networking sites during work hours; and in doing so to try and assess any potential value or benefits to the business that the use of these sites may offer. As part of this investigation I have been spending some of my own time on these sites to explore what is available.
Certainly there is a lot to do and hours can easily be whiled away adding additional applications, customising profiles and finding out what friends are up to whilst challenging them in quizzes, offering them gifts or buying and selling their photos but so far I am really struggling to find business value in allowing access to these sites from the workplace
Not yet rated
Loading ...Comment by Jen Mowat - July 21, 2008 on 4:23 pm
You are right to question the relationship between business and social networking sites and it is indeed a very topical theme in the media at present. But rather than be a hindrance, when harnessed properly, businesses can actually benefit from the power of social networking tools.
In many ways, business has been slow to respond to the social networking boom. First, it was ignored as an irrelevance
Make a comment
Tag cloud
Most commented posts
- Why we love our digital photo frame
27 comments
- Which mobile email solution to choose?
- Which remote support solution to choose?
- Legacy is alive and well
- Keeping the network in season with Spiceworks 2
- Eek, I Have Been Removed By The BBC
- Too early to think about Christmas presence?
- Technology times they are a changing...
- Virtual Servers get rebooted twice
- Are you fan of the IT Crowd?
Highest Rated Blog Posts
- Which mobile email solution to choose? (100%)
- Legacy is alive and well (100%)
- Why we love our digital photo frame (100%)
- Technology Predictions for 2008 (100%)
- Power to the people? To the computers would be nice! (100%)
- Spam, Spam, and oh ... a CV (100%)
- Got a problem? I have a spreadsheet for that! (100%)
- Am I the only person in the world who likes Mondays? (100%)
- Seeing green (100%)
- Are computers writing human programs? (100%)