Are your employees blogging? Tweeting? Using FaceBook, LinkedIn, or BlogHer? Do you have any idea? If you don’t know, and your company or organization is large enough that you can’t call out “Hey? Are you using any of these things?” and get a verbal answer from everyone, then the answer is probably yes. And...
Today was apparently a big day for discussion of businesses using social media technology! First, Search Engine Journal announced a series of forthcoming articles on Social Media for Business Operations. They have a group of experts who will be writing about everything from using social media to recruit talent to network security issues to...
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At the BlogHer and BlogHer Business conferences, I heard from numerous corporate PR people and PR firms that the companies are afraid of bloggers and social media. Especially corporate legal departments. “We want to work with bloggers, but we can’t get it through Legal!” came up in my conversations with at least half a...
I believe that a lot of bad privacy decisions are made by well-intentioned people who don’t understand either how various technologies work, or who don’t understand the easiest, cheapest, and most effective way to protect people’s privacy is to limit the amount of data they collect and retain. The City of Bozeman, Montana, appears...
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act includes privacy and security requirements that extend beyond HIPAA. The consequences for breach also go to a whole new level. Are you ready for new definitions of “Personal Health Information”? Do you know about the new breach notification requirements, which have lower thresholds...