Today I was interviewed by BBC Radio 4 ’s You and Yours programme about this very issue. Waitrose staff post abusive messages about customers on internet Facebook message about night out ‘betrays’ man who phoned in sick for work Required reading online communities Last year we wrote about the case of the Virgin Atlantic employees who were sacked for talking about customers (and indeed their employers) in social networks , and why you should be careful what you say on Facebook . At the time we wrote that: …we’ve probably all talked

Before joining the Guardian, he worked at the BBC for eight years. He joined the BBC in 1998, as their first online journalist based outside of the UK. From their flagship Washington bureau, he covered the US for the BBC’s award winning news website , while also providing politics and technology coverage for BBC radio and television. About Us | RSS | Advertise | Contact Us Home > Weblog Columns > Strange Attractor Weblog columns [select a blog] [Corante Blog] BETWEEN LAWYERS: technology + culture + law BRAIN WAVES: neurons, bits & genes COPYFIGHT: the politics

Most SNSs also provide a mechanism for users to leave messages on their Friends profiles. In addition, SNSs often have a private messaging feature similar to webmail. While both private messages and comments are popular on most of the major SNSs, they are not universally available. QQ started as a JCMC Home Submit Issues Author Index Editors About JCMC boyd, d. m., &

I was listening to a fantastic episode of Peter Day’s Global Business (can’t find it to link to on the BBC website - subscribe to it on iTunes if you don’t already). video blog all of my messaging.” And given Cisco’s own performance through dot.com bubble and into the current slide, his message has rather more resonance - file next to Google? Open (minds, finds, conversations)… Frontpage Return home Browse By topic Subscribe RSS feed Featured Headline Uncategorized Mar 25, 2009 “Command and control is dead”: the shape of next gen organisations is social networks Image: John Chambers, CEO of Cisco: “command and control is dead”.

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And it’s a sad indictment of human gullibility that messages originating from a seemingly respected source are too often believed first and questioned second. Sure, it’s the message, not the medium that is the real issue here. For example, BBC Radio4’s More or Less team probed (as they always do) the claims in more detail and posted the following response to clarify inaccuracies. Trojan Horse from shutterstock A

This is the approach Amazon takes for their reviews, for example, and what the BBC use for their message boards for children. Some message-boards, particular those that concern themselves with topical issues or celebrities, are prone to libel and can be a source of legal anxiety for the organisation that hosts them. Whenever companies want to publish user generated content (UGC) they need to look into moderation, which usually consists of the following three types: Pre-moderation:

Before joining the Guardian, he worked at the BBC for eight years. He joined the BBC in 1998, as their first online journalist based outside of the UK. From their flagship Washington bureau, he covered the US for the BBC’s award winning news website , while also providing politics and technology coverage for BBC radio and television. About Us | RSS | Advertise | Contact Us Home > Weblog Columns > Strange Attractor Weblog columns [select a blog] [Corante Blog] BETWEEN LAWYERS: technology + culture + law BRAIN WAVES: neurons, bits & genes COPYFIGHT: the politics

Design Thinking 3.0 6 Minute Epic 10000 Miles ABC News Adoption advanced search Al Qaeda Analytics Andy Carvin AP Apple April 1st Artisanal Economy Autos Balckberry banking Barriers BBC BBC Manchester Bio Alliance Blogging Blue Monster Book Review Books BPP Diner Brian Hurlburt Bryant Park Project Business Intelligence Business Model Cancer capital CBC CBS CES Change Channel 4 Chaord Charles Armstrong Charles Handy Chris Anderson Chris Corrigan CIO clare hart Clayton Christenson Cloud Computing CNN collaboration

Design Thinking 3.0 6 Minute Epic 10000 Miles ABC News Adoption advanced search Al Qaeda Analytics Andy Carvin AP Apple April 1st Artisanal Economy Autos Balckberry banking Barriers BBC BBC Manchester Bio Alliance Blogging Blue Monster Book Review Books BPP Diner Brian Hurlburt Bryant Park Project Business Intelligence Business Model Cancer capital CBC CBS CES Change Channel 4 Chaord Charles Armstrong Charles Handy Chris Anderson Chris Corrigan CIO clare hart Clayton Christenson Cloud Computing CNN collaboration