Do your organization's employees know what they can and cannot say on Facebook and other social media? Time for some basic governance.The National Labor Relations Board released a report in August on workplace usage of social media. It determined that employees can't be fired for what they say on social media as long as they use their chosen platform to talk about improving their workplace.The ru
Social Business Requires A Formal Policy
25 of the best tech and social media stories from the last week
Every week here on the blog we bring you 25 of the best stories from the world of technology and social media that you simply can’t afford not to read. Of course the big news this week was the death of Steve Jobs which more or less overshadowed everything else that was happening and we do share a couple of the best stories on the mercurial leader but also focus on the rest of the news. You might
Delicious owner sets up user forum as problems persist
Users of Delicious now have another venue to report problems and seek information about the bug-ridden relaunch of the social bookmarking site.Avos, the company that bought Delicious from Yahoo back in April and relaunched it early last week, has unveiled a discussion forum where users and company officials can interact about support issues.The new version of Delicious went live on Sept. 26, trig
3 New Apps for Sharing Gifts, Trips & Products
Each weekend, Mashable picks startups we think are building interesting, unique or niche products.Here we highlight three social applications that help friends share content and products.SocialGift helps organize group gifts. Capsule is a private space for sharing and archiving content surrounding an event, and Thinng is a visual online pinboard for products
Photographers Group Launches Social Bookmarking Site
The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) has launched CameraCake.com, a website that combines aspects of social bookmarking, crowd-sourcing, social filtered search and social networking to help imaging professionals identify and learn from the most valuable resources available.CameraCake.com helps users stay informed by enabling them to share the resources they most admire and search re
Tips for Developing a Social Bookmarking Strategy
A recent study found that the social bookmarking site StumbleUpon accounts for 50% of all traffic derived from social media , surpassing even Facebook as the leading source of traffic. While we have to take these numbers with a grain of salt—StumbleUpon exists solely to share links, while Facebook is the central hub of most users’ online social lives—this data lends credibility to the value of so
Handpick.me is The most caring way to share links
Their homepage says front and center that the service Handpick.me is “The most caring way to share links”, so it got our attention.Sharing links is something we’ve always done on the internet in a variety of ways, and those ways have increased over the years, especially with the advent of “Social Media”.Twitter lets you tweet out links, hoping that someone will click on them and check it out. Fac
How To Sync Evernote With Google+
Google+ is a great tool for collaborating with colleagues and staying up-to-date with your social network. Evernote is my favorite cross-platform note-taking and bookmarking tool. Combine Google+ and Evernote, and you've got something pretty powerful. Here’s how to use Google+ and Evernote together--by sending Google+ conversations into Evernote
4 Web 2.0 Technologies To Inspire Students
Instructional Technologist Marta Masterson is used to some skepticism when students see her syllabus. A lot of them have never heard of Web 2.0 technologies like Diigo, Glogster, Prezi, and PBworks. For some, the thought of using any technology they can't access from their phone breaks them out in a cold sweat. For others, there's a very real concern that investing hours into Web 2.0 projects cou
Founder of Delicious Weighs In on Version 3.0
On Monday, I reported on the plans of Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, best known as two of the founders of YouTube, to transform Delicious, a social bookmarking service that never quite caught on among mainstream Web users, into a popular, sleek and modern service.Delicious was created in 2003 by Joshua Schachter, a quantitative analyst on Wall Street who cobbled together the tool as a way to organiz