by Thomas Otter | March 13, 2009 | 1 Comment
I receive lots of vendor briefing requests, some relevant to my work, and others not. This one links to my research on privacy and HR technology, so I’m listening to it this evening. But what made me blog this today was IBM’s use of Twitter and the hashtag. Twitter is in the enterprise. How are [...]
Category: Social Software privacy Tags: IBM, Jeff Mann, Twitter
by Thomas Otter | February 19, 2009 | Comments Off
Both of them used social software to rapidly organize protests. Both with 10,000s of participants in a matter of days. John Prescott, former UK deputy Prime Minister, took on the Bank bonus issue in the UK. Anne took on the Facebook Terms of Service. She blogged about her reasons for starting the group. I hadn’t [...]
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Category: Law Social Software privacy Tags: facebook TOS, Prescott., privacy, protest
by Thomas Otter | January 28, 2009 | 3 Comments
from rpongsaj‘s flickr cc license (thanks) Today is International Privacy Day, and it is all over the blogosphere. This is a good thing. Generating awareness about privacy is goodness indeed. But I find Eric’s position on Techcrunch that losing your privacy is the price to pay for on-line participation and collaboration rather depressing. The [...]
Category: Social Software history privacy software industry Tags: international privacy day
