Today, I began to serious think about corporate social media policies, so I made my way over to the largest keeper of social media policies at SocialMediaGovernance.com. As I read them, it made sense to me. Most of these companies embrace social media and understand social media. They understand that it is social; it's about sharing, giving, and collaborating. And generally, if a company doesn't post their policy externally, it is because they don't really embrace social media or that they don't ... Read More

First, I must admit I am a huge advocate to social learning, probably more so than informal learning. In the book, The New Social Learning by >Marcia Conner and >Tony Bingham, they assert: Etienne Wenger, author of Digital Habitats, Communities of Practice, Situated Learning, and other books, asserts that human knowing is fundamentally a social act (emphasis mine). By hearing about the experiences of others, you mash up snippets of data, add them to your own, and fit them into your sense ... Read More

Over the years, I have gained access to Twitter by two different companies that have unanimously blocked Twitter and all social media from their users. Both companies had great reasons for blocking access to Twitter and Facebook, et. al., however, there are ways to gain access to them again if you are willing to put in the work. There are two things that a user can do: (1) Find a way around the work firewall or (2) Find a way through the work firewall as an exception. If you pick the first ... Read More