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Archive for October, 2009

Social recruiting – it’s the network stupid

Social recruiting – it’s the network stupid

If you are in recruiting there is no doubt you understand the value of LinkedIn, and other social networks, as a recruiting tool. Unfortunately, there are still companies that aren’t convinced the value outweighs the risk of using these tools, especially if you are in a regulated industry. Let’s start with some math. While LinkedIn [...]

FINRA calls for social networking audit trail

On Tuesday, October 27th, Richard Ketchum the CEO of FINRA was interviewed on the “Closing Bell”. By way of background FINRA is the largest independent regulator for all securities firms in the US. The interview, shown above, focused on the use of social networking tools, like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, by the financial community such [...]

1 in 5 using status update services

1 in 5 using status update services

Pew Internet recently released a report showing that one in five Internet users is tweeting on Twitter or using another service to share personal and business updates or to see updates from others. Pew points out that this is an increase to 19 percent, up from 11 percent last year. As many users of Twitter [...]

Security execs fear the unknown

Forrester analyst Rob Whiteley recently posted a blog entry titled “Security execs are insecure about Twitter”. At the Forrester Security Forum the topic of Twitter and the security threat it poses to enterprises got a lot of attention. Rob made some great points and raised some interesting questions. 1. Security execs must find a way [...]