Sound advice from Gartner on social networking by employees

Speaking at the Gartner Symposium in Florida this week Carol Rozwell, a Gartner vice president, told delegates that banning access to social media from the corporate network is futile. She said that companies shouldn't block social networking and that security shouldn't completely lock down communications with the outside world. She argued that even if information technology authorities want to shut down such activity, they can't. “While a job may be regarded as an economic transaction, t... [More]