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Should Companies Allow Social Networking at Work?

Went Hot: November 14, 2007 - 7:28 am
Posted By: TannerHobin 600 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.reemabeidoh.com)
Category: Networking

Reem Abeidoh discusses the importance of allowing social network access at work. She also highlights some guidelines for best practices that could be implemented at work. Is the usage of social networking sites a productive avenue for employees to help build a companies brand equity? What about reputation management issues?

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from igorthetroll 600 days ago #

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They should hire an SEO consultant to enlighten employees the cons and the pros of social networking. Also the company needs tomonitor the flow of information.So no privacy.

It can be very dangerous for comany's public relationship if a disgrunted employee went bunkers and ploted some nasty scrible all over the Internet...

from rabeidoh 600 days ago #

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Very good point, igorthetroll! You can't really control what your employees say on their sites, but you can provide them with guidelines letting them know what is accepted by the company. Those who ignore the rules will obviously suffer the repercussions. Many companies already have a blogging policy in place. All they have to do is expand it to include social networking...