23rd June, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 7 Comments
Warning: This is a long blog post detailing my adventures through blocked blogs and suspended Twitter accounts. If you’re looking for a short read or have a really short attention span, you’d be better off checking out my Tweets or skipping to the end of this post where there are some key lessons learned from [...]
8th June, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 6 Comments
I find it mildly amusing that some companies are becoming social media ostriches and sticking their heads in the sand by denying access to sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. In this article, I cover my top five hypocrisies in corporate arguments for blocking employee access to social media.
18th April, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 13 Comments
If you’re looking to build an Intranet or improve on the one you already maintain, check out these great resources that can help in your efforts. Some require registration to access and participate and others are for purchase only, but they can really assist in the decision making process of any selection or updates to your Intranet.
12th April, 2009 - Posted By Dan Kneeshaw - No Comments
From time to time I am going to reference good reads that I come across, and this is the first of those. I want to pass this on to our readers because this is one of the better descriptions I have read regarding the phenomenon known as “Twitter“. Lindsey Miller from Lawrence Ragan Communications recently published the article A [...]
5th April, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 3 Comments
Many Intranet professionals are already leveraging the power of Twitter to market their activities outside of the firewall, but few have taken the next step add microblogging as a feature to their organizational Intranet. Luckily, the great folks at the Laconica project are building an open source microblog application that can easily be installed in both Windows and Unix/Linux environments and rolled out in a matter of hours.
31st March, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 1 Comment
Each day, it seems that more and more folks are dipping their toes into the world of Social Networking by creating Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, and LinkedIn accounts. And each day, we’re entertained with stories of folks who get “Facebook fired”, shoot off an improper Tweet that lands them in hot water, or and share confidential information on their personal blog. Recently, Helen A.S. Popkin wrote an excellent article for MSNBC.com called “Twitter gets you fired in 140 characters or less” which details some of the follies of folks who have overstepped the boundaries from responsible social networking into, well…just TMI.
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