You just KNEW this was coming, right? With all the 2.0 and social networking sites, it was inevitable that companies would want to spy on their employees to make sure they weren’t up to no good. It’s common knowledge that part of the screening process now in many HR departments includes a check of MySpace, Facebook and others.
Next time you want to take pictures of your girlfriend and her BFF making out at the club or you drunk on your sofa; or you want to post a long blog rant about illegal immigrants or how George Bush is the anti-Christ, might want to think about this:
As blogs and wikis spread throughout enterprises, organizations must deal with compliance and risk-management issues that are created from communications through these media. Not only are employees communicating through these media at work, but they are also doing so at home. Is your organization aware of what employees are communicating through blogs and wikis? Are communications through these media that are affiliated with the organization or company being monitored for liability risks and being retained in case of litigation?
Techrigy’s SM2 is an enterprise–level management tool that helps organization control and monitor blogs and wikis that employees are utilizing. SM2 discovers and inventories all blogs and wikis being used in an organization, records these communications and monitors them for risks and liabilities.
SM2 can help your organization implement and utilize social media by providing a tool for monitoring these media and enforcing your organization’s compliance policies.
This is why I work for myself. I can spy on myself all day and not care what I’m seeing because I’ve already seen it. Wait…what?
I definitely think about this when I am posting to my blog, especially considering how intolerant school systems are about the slightest thing.
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