Employer’s dont want potential employees or customers to see this but people should be able to voice those opions to thier friends and or the world if they choose as they are thier opinion and they are entitled to them.

Hiding the truth of how companies treat thier employees or how employees may really fell about the companies they work only really serves the company .

I would imagine that most are not posting trade secrets. i do imagine it is what the Ceo did at the holiday party or whose getting it on with who or why Sally really recieved the promotion, none of which to my knowledge are trade secrets.

Everyone has said ” I hate my job” or many other none trade secrets to a room full of friends a wife, In a public place. You have all done it and I know you would be lying to say otherwise as it is human nature.

You have all seen things that people do on the job, you have done at a party or gathering that you have told people, wives friends about, perhaps even joked about with co-workers now they want to fire you for it and restirict it. You have done these things…

I agree at work people should be working there are many site blockers for that. I agree that trade secrets should not be posted. I believe what people do after they leave for the day should be careful and they should have some freedom to say do and be who they are.

They Work for you, you dont Own them…

Great article. Most similar articles talk about the potential risks associated with irresponsible social media involvements. You have provided some powerful facts and figures to legitimize and validate corporate concerns regarding reputation management. The risks are real and can cause irreparable damage to a company and its brand. Policies must be put in place and breaches must be avoided at all costs.

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Creating an all encompassing set of strict rules is stupid. Give the employees a set of flexible guidelines and make sure they study them – then trust them to do the right thing most of the time. When they don’t, then put the CEO himself on Twitter and Facebook – he or she won’t do any better. But they won’t. They want all the benefits of social media they have heard exist (using real people having real conversations), but they do not tell employees that they empower to use social media that they are now at risk of losing their jobs by doing so.

David Meerman Scott said it well in his book World Wide Rave when he wrote: “The idea of customers and employees spreading ‘marketing messages’ fro an organization via blogs, forums, chat rooms, and other social media sites such as YouTube scares many marketers, corporate communications people, and company executives to death!”

Thanks for the effort.

I will be reading this and your links for the next coming days.

Thanks for sharing this with us.