I’ve done a few press (radio, print) interviews this week re: Telstra so I thought I should have another look at how Enterprise, Government, Corporates, Not for Profits  are handling the fact that their staff are members of social networks too.  Kinda cool that companies are now posting internal policies publicly . Managing staff who participate in social networks. This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on.

Using the company’s mobile phone to watch YouTube videos? jobsearching on company time, and so on.  TWO: BROWN BAG EDUCATION LUNCH - PR social MEDIA TRAINING for WHOLE COMPANY Distribute to the organisation and say “we, the company, decided this was our concerns and approach to appropriate and inappropriate behaviour”. For Public Relations who are concerned about Crisis Communication in Social Networks and are responsible for Social Media Training across the organisation. Facebook banned in the workplace?

I’ve had several people ask me lately for information on what corporations are doing on Twitter. Four ways companies use micro-blogging Here’s some great content around the topic: 40 of the Best Twitter Brands and the People Behind Them Executive twittering without the time suck

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here’s the main point: That culture is, in my view, the most overlooked, underestimated factor determining whether social media succeeds or fails in a company. And when corporate culture and social media are pitted against each other, social media will always fail. That’s a quote taken from one of his recent blog posts titled: " The Impact of Corporate Culture on Social Media (IBM’s Case Study) ", where While most people out there think that Social Software is all about new, fancy social tools, available on a more engaging and participative Web, I thought you folks would enjoy the following quote from one of my fellow IBM colleagues, Adam Christensen , who happens to know a thing or two (And plenty more!

Do you know who’s talking about you online, what they’re saying, and the scope of their influence? Most (though not all) companies I’ve worked with have a general sense of what’s being said about them online. Typically corporate social media efforts emerge out of PR, Marketing, or Customer Service. Have you defined a corporate policy for engaging with customers Our social media engagements typically start with some kind of assessment, with varying degrees of formality and scope. We have an internal list of questions we use to plan these assessments, some of which are

The kick-off speaker at the National Association of Corporate Directors Corporate Governance Conference , Bill George , had some very practical advice for board members. In thinking about succession, he favors internal candidates over external ones, who may not even know the industry of the company that they're being brought in to rescue. Here he cited one of my favorite corporate experiments A former CEO and board chair of Medtronic, George now teaches at Harvard Business School, serves on several high profile boards, and writes books.

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The Complete Innovator New thoughts on Innovation from Innovation Strategist, Boris Pluskowski Home About The Author Contact Boris! Training and Services Why Companies shouldn’t build Online Communities.. 22 10 2009 Forget about Communities.Don’t do it. Oh I know that communities are all the rage currently – companies are falling over themselves to create, build and own their very own communities: