Remember when email flaming was all the ..er..rage? It took a while for people to learn to turn off the caps lock. Surely there is a learning curve with social sites. In the meantime the stakes are pretty high, like losing your job.
The minidrama is an increasingly familiar one as companies and workers navigate the landscape defined by sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Firings and reprimands over postings to social networking sites have become commonplace over the last year.
Surely, as individuals, we’ll eventually learn to balance who we “let in” to our social networks, how we reveal our thoughts, and consider who might see what we say or do. I wonder how tolerance… Continue reading: Softening the Social Bite
Char Sample and I did a techtip for cloud VARs on compliance and security services. We focused on that customers might be interested in paying more for in order to insure their data is secured and protected in the cloud. Of course, in order for these services to be worth offering, customers will have to be willing to pay extra for them. Which raises the traditional Catch-22 dilemma – if you can’t trust a provider (insert any trusted provider here: doctor’s office, local policy and safety offices, financial institutions) to protect your critical information without having to pay them extra – should you be trusting them in the first place?
The late comedian George Carlin had a famous… Continue reading: Cloud Computing Security Services Add-Ons
