Comments on: Social Media Ostriches – The Corporate Hypocrisy Of Blocking Employee Access To Facebook and Twitter http://www.intranetexperience.com/ourblog/2009/06/social-media-ostriches-the-corporate-hypocrisy-of-blocking-employee-access-to-facebook-and-twitter/ Topics relating to Intranets, portals, enterprise content management, internal communications, and social media in the workplace Sat, 20 Aug 2011 13:52:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kelly Monroe http://www.intranetexperience.com/ourblog/2009/06/social-media-ostriches-the-corporate-hypocrisy-of-blocking-employee-access-to-facebook-and-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-684 Kelly Monroe Mon, 17 May 2010 13:13:09 +0000 http://www.intranetexperience.com/ourblog/?p=331#comment-684 I’m a consultant working with Palo Alto Networks, a network security company that helps enterprises manage social networking apps on the corporate network. IT departments are stuck between a rock and a hard place. They know that end-users and the business units will revolt if these apps are outright blocked. At the same time, they know these apps carry risks and can’t leave them unchecked. It requires a good balance between enablement and security. There is a good whitepaper on the subject of blocking social networking apps, “To Block or Not. Is that the question?” http://bit.ly/d2NZRp It has lots of insightful and useful information about identifying and controlling Enterprise 2.0 apps (Facebook, Twitter, Skype, AIM, SharePoint, etc.) Let me know what you think! Kelly@briefworld.com Share it with your IT Dept. I’m a consultant working with Palo Alto Networks, a network security company that helps enterprises manage social networking apps on the corporate network. IT departments are stuck between a rock and a hard place. They know that end-users and the business units will revolt if these apps are outright blocked. At the same time, they know these apps carry risks and can’t leave them unchecked. It requires a good balance between enablement and security. There is a good whitepaper on the subject of blocking social networking apps, “To Block or Not. Is that the question?”
http://bit.ly/d2NZRp
It has lots of insightful and useful information about identifying and controlling Enterprise 2.0 apps (Facebook, Twitter, Skype, AIM, SharePoint, etc.)
Let me know what you think!
Kelly@briefworld.com
Share it with your IT Dept.

]]> By: Sean R. Nicholson http://www.intranetexperience.com/ourblog/2009/06/social-media-ostriches-the-corporate-hypocrisy-of-blocking-employee-access-to-facebook-and-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-679 Sean R. Nicholson Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:18:19 +0000 http://www.intranetexperience.com/ourblog/?p=331#comment-679 Great interview and commentary by Andrew McAfee on social media ostriches. http://bit.ly/aEyeGI Great interview and commentary by Andrew McAfee on social media ostriches.

http://bit.ly/aEyeGI

]]> By: Donna Papacosta http://www.intranetexperience.com/ourblog/2009/06/social-media-ostriches-the-corporate-hypocrisy-of-blocking-employee-access-to-facebook-and-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-653 Donna Papacosta Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:20:06 +0000 http://www.intranetexperience.com/ourblog/?p=331#comment-653 Very well said. It's not just social sites that are blocked. One of my clients is unable to email docs larger than 5MB. I suggested they use my dropbox. Turns out their IT dept. blocks that too! What a drain on productivity to force all these workarounds like sending files from one's home computer. Very well said. It’s not just social sites that are blocked. One of my clients is unable to email docs larger than 5MB. I suggested they use my dropbox. Turns out their IT dept. blocks that too! What a drain on productivity to force all these workarounds like sending files from one’s home computer.

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]]> By: Sean R. Nicholson http://www.intranetexperience.com/ourblog/2009/06/social-media-ostriches-the-corporate-hypocrisy-of-blocking-employee-access-to-facebook-and-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-607 Sean R. Nicholson Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:18:58 +0000 http://www.intranetexperience.com/ourblog/?p=331#comment-607 Another really good article on how to respond to folks who don't find the value in Social Media: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ten_common_objections_to_socia.php Another really good article on how to respond to folks who don’t find the value in Social Media:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ten_common_objections_to_socia.php

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