[ajug-members] Social Networking in the workplace

[Burr Sutter]

Thank you for the many great replies.

It is interesting because via "social networks" like Facebook, Twitter and
LinkedIn, a LOT of intellectual property is being "leaked" into the world at
large.  The same is true of employee's resumes.  Right?

If you were interested in what company X is doing, they are your top
competitor, you can sift through all of their employees posted resumes,
linkedin profiles, tweets and facebook updates and develop a decent
understanding of what company X is working on.  Plus you can better
determine which employees are ripe for the taking.

Is there an online company that specializes in this form of "corporate
espionage"?  If not, let's start one, this will be a killer startup. :-)

Pay us $100 a month for automated "news clippings" - like what the CIA does
for the senior members of the gov't - you will know when the CEO of your
competitor is having a bad hair day.  :-)


On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Handly Cameron <handly.cameron at gmail.com>wrote:

> Steven is right.  IBM has a good one:
> http://www.ibm.com/blogs/zz/en/guidelines.html
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> Handly Cameron
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> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Steven Guitar <stguitar at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I would probably hit up folks from IBM.
>>
>> I have even seen on a television documentary about this that they were
>> experimenting with Second Life in the workplace to host meetings so that
>> people felt more connected. I am not sure I would go that far haha, but
>> anyway...
>>
>> their intranet site for their employees is very "social networking" from
>> what I have seen.
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>> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Burr Sutter <burrsutter at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> We’re trying to put together a corporate policy on use of social
>>> networking sites and I was wondering whether you knew about any companies
>>> who had them and, if they did, if they said anything beyond “don’t use them
>>> during work hours.” Let me know if you think there’s anyone who has a good
>>> one and/or any elements it might entail OR someone you know who I might
>>> be able to talk to about it.
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