How do people deal with Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc. in your computer usage policies? This is coming up for us a lot lately with people posting during work hours. Our box office agents are using it a lot during down times. Just wondering how strict you are about this and what your policy is.
Gloria
We don't block any social networking sites on our organization machines. As a co-manager of our social media initiatives, we encourage our staff - especially on the front-lines - to follow or friend our organization accounts on these networks so they can get the same information as our constituents. We also get a lot of staff retweeting, posting organization Facebook posts to their personal accounts, etc. Here's an interesting article I found online about the subject:
http://www.10e20.com/blog/2009/10/15/why-companies-shouldnt-block-social-media-in-the-workplace/
It's an exciting discussion that a lot of organizations are having. We (in marketing) are currently working jointly with our PR and HR departments to write a social media policy, but it's only in a very early stage.
Eric MuellerElectronic Marketing Coordinator / Web DesignerScience Museum of Minnesota