There’s been quite a bit of coverage over the recent months about Social Networking in the workplace. It’s been a few years since this particular issue saw this much coverage. Maybe it’s the current economic situation that’s driving organisations to be more concerned about staff productivity or it could just be sheer coincidence.
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The BBC has reported that Portsmouth City Council has banned staff from accessing a number of web sites including facebook, Bebo, Twitter and eBay. The council had previously banned YouTube.
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The BBC has reported that a Scottish teacher who posted messages discussing her pupils on a social networking website is being investigated by her employers. You can read the full story here.
The secondary teacher in Argyll and Bute is understood to have posted up to 38 updates a day on the Twitter site and based [...]
Bloxx now has a Twitter Page. Follow your favourite Web content filtering company for the latest tweets: twitter.com/bloxx
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Hitwise has revealed that in the UK for the year to date, Facebook is the most popular search term with 2.39% searches dedicated to this term as well as being the second most visited site in the UK behind Google. It receives an unbelievable 1 in every 24 internet visits and its traffic has doubled [...]
Previously companies have been concerned with employees accessing inappropriate online content in the workplace. However, during the past couple of years many of our customers have been asking us to help them to additionally manage employee access to sites that impact on productivity, particularly social networking sites such as Facebook and Bebo.
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A study by Demos has suggested that the use of social networking sites in the workplace should be encouraged as a way to foster better staff communications in the long term. A more flexible approach to access to these sites should be considered by companies; however, Demos does understand that those who abuse the privilege [...]
The U.S. Economy is in a recession, and organizations small and large are going to be faced with budget cuts in the coming year. So, what can your company do to help save money, reduce costs, and improve productivity? Install a web filter, of course!
Here is just a brief overview of the costs your company [...]
BECTA, the UK’s educational technology organization, has just announced research that talks about the potential benefits of Web 2.0 in the classroom for 11-16 year olds. At the moment the use of Web 2.0 is limited, mainly due to lack of time that’s available for teachers to become familiar with the technology and worries about [...]
The Telegraph newspaper here in the UK ran an interesting article a few days ago. Bill Tancer, a general manager at global Internet stats company Hitwise has just published a book: ‘Click: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why It Matters’, and the interview was extremely interesting.
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