But what happens when you bring these tools into the constrained, policy-driven, risk-averse world of the corporate intranet where the user population is small, where expressing oneself as an individual and on a personal level can feel threatening, and where management is watching your every move? Unsurprisingly, the policy makers ran a mile! MORE >>

techniques such as tagging, ratings, networking, RSS, and sharing in the context of the enterprise. tools and services take advantage of social software features such as social bookmarking and linking, tagging, rating, user commenting and discussion, open creation and editing policies, syndication via RSS feeds (see Figure 1), and so on. MORE >>

Everyone does their own thing: No having any type of policy is the policy. They either block social media, or have no policy. As far as Intel’s policy, we implemented it in part to empower our employees to engage. also used Dell, IBM and Sun as my guides for excellent policies and strategies. These market [.] MORE >>

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Social-networking Web sites, such as Facebook and MySpace, now attract more than 100 million visitors a month. Some organizations, trying to accommodate new Web standards, have adopted total laissez-faire policies, eschewing even basic controls that screen out inappropriate postings. First time here? Read our Quarterly Basics. tools. MORE >>