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Social Media and Work

Increasingly your employees are online participating in social media such as Facebook, LikedIn, and Twitter. This social media participation poses a new challenge for work. You don't want to interfere in the personal lives of your employees outside of work but you must protect your company name and brand. Additionally, you need to monitor social media to respond to what is being said about your company, your products, and your work place.

Social Media Should Rock Your World

Social media participation is an essential tool in networking with professional contacts, making new contacts, recruiting employees, and keeping in touch with the world. If you’re not participating in the top social media and networking sites, the world is leaving you behind. Become involved on the social media Web sites.

How to Develop a Social Media Policy

Your prospective, current, and former employees, customers, and vendors are all hanging out on social media sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr. You need to monitor social media to learn what all of these stakeholders are sharing and saying about your company, your employees, and your workplace.

Social Media and Blogging Policy Sample

Your Company recognizes the importance of the Internet in shaping public thinking about our company and our current and potential products, employees, partners, and customers. Your company also recognizes the importance of our employees helping shape industry conversation through blogging and interaction in social media. These guidelines in this...

Use LinkedIn for Recruiting Employees

The impact of social media sites such as LinkedIn for recruiting and keeping on hand a pool of qualified candidates can't be overestimated. The impact of social media on how employees work, network, and keep in touch with professionals you might want to hire is profound. Find out more.

Research Candidates Online - Do You Research Prospective Empl…

The use of social and professional networking sites online to research and background check prospective employees and employees is increasing. So is the use of search engines such as Google. And employers are making hiring decisions based on the information they find. Is this right? Or, is the practice discriminatory and unethical. Do you research candidates online? If so, how does the search add…

Top Ten Reasons Social Media Should Rock Your World - Networking on S…

Social media participation is becoming an essential tool in networking with professional contacts, making new contacts, recruiting employees, and keeping in touch with the world. If you’re not participating in the top social media and networking sites, the world is leaving you behind. Why not become involved on the social media Web sites? What's...

How to Develop a Social Media Policy

Your prospective, current, and former employees, customers, and vendors are all hanging out on social media sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr. You need to monitor social media to learn what all of these stakeholders are sharing and saying about your company, your employees, and your workplace. Use social media to...

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