Posts Tagged ‘Social Middleware’
When will we learn? Enterprises are getting social.
Access to social media at work continues to be a hot topic. A recent article – like many others – underscores the challenges and victories that can come from blurring the lines between personal and business. “It’s the dumbest policy in the world to block your employees from going to social media sites,” said Mark [...]
Are you a social networking two-face?
We get this question all the time: “How do I separate personal activity from business activity on Facebook or Twitter?” The bottom line? You don’t. Here’s why. The lines between personal and business are inextricably linked. Who knows if that high school buddy you reconnected with on Facebook might be looking for a financial advisor? [...]
Smarsh and Socialware Partner
We are very excited to announce a new partnership with Smarsh, a managed-service leader in email archiving and compliance solutions. Together with Socialware, Smarsh can now offer an integrated solution for messaging and social media compliance. Some of you reading this may wonder, what does email archiving have to do with social media? As it [...]
Tweets of the week: Cool Vendor, New Survey and Best Practices
This has been an exciting and busy week here at Socialware. In case you missed it here are the tweets of the week. To stay up to date in real-time follow @bockius and @socialware. Gartner Names Socialware Cool Vendor in Cloud Security Services for 2010 http://bit.ly/dqA2lB RT @enterprises: Social media compliance extends beyond archiving http://bit.ly/9RS7jd [...]
Helping State and Local Government Agencies Get Social
Our very own Chris Richter was recently interviewed on Federal News Radio 1500. The topic was social networking use at state and local government agencies, how to protect the agencies infrastructure and how to ensure compliance with laws, such as the Freedom of Information Act. Some of the questions answered in the interview are: – [...]
Straight to the point interview on Blogtalkradio
I had the pleasure of talking with Jeff Majka on Blogtalkradio this afternoon. Jeff is the Director of Marketing and Business Development for Strategic Communications Group, a nationally recognized public relations agency that develops and executes integrated PR and business development strategies for technology companies. He also runs Straight To The Point, a podcast focused [...]
New Socialware Release: Tag, Search, Export and more
This past week has been busy for the team here at Socialware. The big news earlier in the week was the launch of our Companion Guide to FINRA Social Networking Compliance. In addition we also had a product update that included some great new capabilities. First you will notice a design and usability overhaul for [...]
Government, Social Networks and Freedom of Information
I came across an article yesterday, titled Twitter and Government Transparency. In it Andy Opsahl outlines the potential challenges social networks are creating for government entities. The question being raised is whether or not activity on sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn need to be archived and available for records requests. As Melinda Catapano points [...]
When is a social media policy not enough?
As more and more companies race to adopt social technologies they inevitably ask the question, “what should our policy be?” Depending on the industry and the company you will find a wide range of policies. Some are a few paragraphs and some are literally pages long. If you are looking for some examples here is [...]
New Cisco Report: Need for Social Middleware
Cisco recently commissioned and published a report to study how organizations use consumer social networking tools. The results were both promising and shocking. The report reveals the both the value of adopting these tools in the enterprise and also the risks that need to be addressed through stronger governance and IT involvement. Here are a [...]



