Social Networking Security Risks
Aside from the obvious waste of company time that could otherwise be put to some productive use, should organizations be concerned about employees using social networking sites? Maybe. In fact, company...
View ArticleSocial Networking on Company Time
Employees are only human. They take breaks. They get distracted. As companies demand more from fewer employees and blur the line between ‘work’ time and ‘personal’ time, it is to be expected that...
View ArticleUnified Communications & Social Networking
Many of the components included in unified communications started off or at least became mainstream in the consumer market. Instant messaging, web-based email, wikis, etc.. These technologies seem to...
View ArticleReality Check: Enterprise IM security and social networking security
I sat down again with Elaine Hom, Associate Editor of SearchUnifiedCommunications, to do the Reality Check podcast. This month we focused on the impact of instant messaging and social networking on...
View ArticleResistance is Futile
You will be assimilated (for those perhaps not as nerdy as me- that is a Star Trek reference to The Borg). That is sort of how new technologies work. Instant messaging went from IRC (Internet Relay...
View ArticleWhy Twitter Works
The consumer masses may be under the impression that social networking is comprised only of MySpace, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. What they are not aware of is that there are many other tools and...
View ArticleTweeting Your Presence
One of the keystones of unified communications is ‘presence’. Another word for presence might be status, but presence is a status–plus a little bit more. Of course, that is only if it is done right and...
View ArticleCheck Point Integrates FaceTime Web 2.0 Security
Web 2.0 tools and social networking services offer an increasing challenge for IT and security administrators tasked with balancing the productive flow of communications in real-time with the security...
View ArticleControlling Social Networking in the Enterprise
A recent article from SearchUnifiedCommunications highlights the growing risks faced by organizations from social networking. Enterprise adoption of social media and social networking technologies...
View ArticleUnified Communications Meets Social Networking
The email client is generally the focal point for unified communications. Emails go there. Voicemails can be trasncribed into emails, or sent as attachments or links in an email. Instant messaging...
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