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Why 54 percent of companies should stop blocking social media

I’ve made many of these same points myself, and made passionate arguments against blocking access to social media sites in the office, but I think this may be the most clear and concise list of reasons that I’ve ever seen. Why the 54% of companies blocking access to social media should unblock As they say,…

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ILTA09 Social Networking Session in Short

As many of you know, I’ve been in DC this week, swamped with the ILTA09 conference, not just as an attendee, but also as a speaker. I was asked, many months ago, to be part of a presentation on social networking. I’ve already mentioned that I thought the session went well, but wanted to write…

Knowledge Workers and Overtime Pay

If this sounds familiar, it’s probably because it’s similar to my Second Rule for Knowledge Workers, the 40 hour illusion. Seems we’ve had a few cases of workers being asked to carry blackberry’s, or use VPN to log in to work during their off hours to answer questions, (share their “knowledge” with their employers), and…