Businesses Should Embrace, Not Ban Social Media

Are we (IT) cavemen or are our users/employees children to be coddled? I recently experienced a business that decided Social Media should be banned from the workplace, and blocked on their outgoing content filters. The basis for this decision was due to perceived “productivity” problems and security concerns. Frankly, I simply find this position to [...]

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Did You Know? / Shift Happens

There is a fantastic set of thought-provoking viral videos floating around the Internet titled, Did you Know. Although originally intended for educators, many businesses are using these videos at their corporate events. In fact, I was at one such event just recently, which made me think of sharing them here (not that they really need [...]

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Spokeo.com: Powerful People Search or Cyberstalking Made Easy

A colleague of mine recently suggested I search for my own name on www.spokeo.com. I had heard of Spokeo before, but never really given it any thought. However, I did the search and was instantly amazed at how much information was returned. I was also amazed at just how wrong the information was. It seems [...]

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