Archives for August, 2009
by John Pescatore | August 7, 2009 | 3 Comments
Turns out that it is not just the stodgy old DoD that is thinking of reigning in employee use of social networks, ESPN and NFL are entertaining similar thoughts. As usual, there is a downside to just letting employees do whatever they feel is fine – a business decision needs to be made in real [...]
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by John Pescatore | August 5, 2009 | 1 Comment
Yesterday’s “Twelve Word Tuesday” post (“If humans use a technology, businesses employing humans will contain, not block”) was in reference to reports that, in respose to security issues, the US DoD Strategic Command was looking into the security issues of allowing military use of social networks. This announcement came at about the same time the [...]
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by John Pescatore | August 4, 2009 | 1 Comment
If humans use a technology, businesses employing humans will contain, not block.
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by John Pescatore | August 3, 2009 | Submit a Comment
I’ve never really gotten used to seeing headphone-wearing cell phone users wander around waving their arms talking into space. They look identical to the aluminum foil beanie wearing people I see in downtown Washington DC who generally do the same thing when protesting about CIA mind control or alien abductions. Now that more mobile phones [...]
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