As a dad of two beautiful girls, this makes me want to produce great bodily harm on someone. As a business guy who writes a lot about social business, this is a dialogue that we have to have openly to help educate others. It saddens me that social media can be used to provoke behavior [...]
Study Reveals Huge Investments for Social Business Initiatives; Not Just Social Media
Booz & Co. and Buddy Media just released a report titled “Campaigns to Capabilities: Social Media and Marketing” report where they surveyed managers from Fortune 100 companies and found that social media will become a higher percentage of total digital marketing budgets over the next three years. The good news is that much of this [...]
[Study] When Social Media and the Workplace Collide
Social media in the workplace is not easy to manage. An employee’s use of social media is certainly a tricky area that employers are dealing with today. According to a recent study by DLA Piper, one third of employers have disciplined employees for something posted on a social media site. The research also found that [...]
Who says you can’t have fun with Your Social Media Policy?
Hat tip to Luis Suarez for sharing this on Twitter. Check out his blog, he’s a super smart guy and a great writer. Quick thought on the video below. The Department of Justice in Victoria, Australia created this. Yes, a government agency is responsible for putting together this quite awesome video and then making it [...]
Why is it that companies don’t trust their employees?
A new study/infographic from Mindflash and Column Five explores the question, ‘Are Companies Allowing Employees to Use Social Media in the Workplace?’ Not quite sure how much I trust the data, especially since they call the study an “informal global study”. Here are some key data points that certainly surprise me and sadden me at [...]

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