As social media continues to grow, statistics in Australia show all platforms increasing. With it comes a blurring of the lines between personal and business communication especially in the workplace. Social media is more extensive than simply having a Facebook account. It involves a spectrum of technologies that include web and mobile technologies including blogging, […]
Social media is an important tool for business communications. Despite the positive aspects it brings, the nature of social media means that someone airing their bad experience online does so, instantly and potentially to a massive audience. As the online environment becomes more crucial to business, and more people are continuously online, increasingly they will […]
It seems that job seekers are being asked for their Facebook passwords as part of the interview process. Read more here. In their efforts to scrutinise candidates, some companies and government agencies are going beyond the glance of a Facebook page and asking for passwords so that employers can log in while the interview is […]
This is an interesting question and one I ask because in the Melbourne Age this morning, there was an article about how your employer could possibly claim ownership of some of your contacts on the LinkedIn platform. In Britain an employee was sacked after he made negative comments about his employer on the social media […]
A recent Fair Work Australia decision shows that all businesses must have a social media policy. In the decision involving a Linfox employee, the Fair Work Australia Commissioner said that it was “not sufficient” for Linfox not to have a social media policy in this current digital age. Read more about the decision: “Not good […]
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