Posts Tagged ‘law’
4 tips for avoiding getting fired for Facebook
This post is by Jessica Miller-Merrell, a leadership blogger at Blogging4Jobs. She is a digital strategist with a passion for recruitment, human resources, training and social media and is the author of “Tweet This! Twitter for Business,” a how-to business guide for Twitter. Social media has arrived and has seeped into every facet of our [...]
From #SXSW: 5 new corporate rules for avoiding social media legal woes
This post is by Stephen Easley, vice president for government affairs and general counsel of F2 Technologies, a wireless data technology company. He is attending his 25th SXSW Festival. Emilio Nicolas and Stephanie Chandler of Jackson Walker, an Austin technology law firm led a very lively discussion at a South by Southwest Interactive Festival panel, [...]
How to create an effective social-media policy for your company
Legal worries can be one of the biggest roadblocks on the path to social-media success. Companies can run serious legal risks by wading into social media unprepared. But worrying too much about unspecified risks can keep a company from adopting the technology entirely — and then they risk being left behind. To get better of [...]
Will Italian courts ruin social media?
In many ways, social media can make the Web feel a bit smaller. Instead of spending hours on faceless corporate Web sites, I’m chatting with old friends and making new ones, all on my own personal landing pages. Social networks do such a good job of shrinking the Internet down to my own little social [...]
Today’s bonus tracks: Setting a policy
Social media might have great marketing potential — but from an HR perspective, these networks can be bears as much as blessings. At minimum, companies now have to spend time paying attention to trends in social media so that they can make sure their company policies reflect the way technology is being used, while still [...]
