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ARLINGTON -- The Battenkill Valley Supervisory Union delayed approval of a social networking policy that prohibits online communication between students and staff.

A motion to approve the policy was rescinded Wednesday after the board learned principals and the district's attorney had yet to review the policy that has been in the works since last school year. The policy would be the first of its kind in the area putting restrictions on social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter and other sites that continue to increase in popularity both among children and adults.

In addition to many common sense points in the proposed policy -- such as obeying all laws, following confidentiality requirements, and refraining from defamation of character, to name a few -- it also looks to separate employees' personal and professional lives.

The policy cautions employees about the content they post on their personal Websites, although it does not prohibit positing items that may be deemed inappropriate by some. Instead, Superintendent Karen Gallese said, the policy is intended to be less restrictive of rights of employee on their personal time, but to distance that personal time from their professions.

Gallese said the four-page policy was drafted by BVSU's three-member Policy Committee and herself using other districts' policies as templates. Although, there are few examples of such a policy. Neighboring supervisory unions -- Southwest Vermont and Bennington-Rutland --

A social networking policy was the idea of previous Superintendent Thomas Gallagher and the process began prior to Gallese's hire this summer. Gallese said she agrees there is a need for one with the intent to prohibit social networking at the schools and restrict personal or damaging information from being made public.

Part of the policy states "staff should never use or access social networking sites of pupils and should never accept an invitation to 'friend' a pupil."

Becoming Facebook "friends" with students or communicating with students through another media, the proposed policy says, "can be misconstrued as being part of a grooming process."

"I think for teachers this day in age, they need to protect themselves from that type of relationship with students. Particularly when teachers are putting up pictures of their personal lives and making comments with other friends. I just think they need to keep that private," Gallese said. "'Friending' students is a very fine line and a gray area, but to be on the safe side they should not be doing that."

Gallese acknowledged staff could run into problems with the policy when it comes to a teacher communicating with their child's friends online, or a younger relative, which the policy does not specifically provide an exception for.

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Supervisory Union delays approval of stiff new social networking policy

Friday September 28, 2012

DAWSON RASPUZZI

Staff Writer

ARLINGTON -- The Battenkill Valley Supervisory Union delayed approval of a social networking policy that prohibits online communication between students and staff.

A motion to approve the policy was rescinded Wednesday after the board learned principals and the districts attorney had yet to review the policy that has been in the works since last school year. The policy would be the first of its kind in the area putting restrictions on social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter and other sites that continue to increase in popularity both among children and adults.

In addition to many common sense points in the proposed policy -- such as obeying all laws, following confidentiality requirements, and refraining from defamation of character, to name a few -- it also looks to separate employees personal and professional lives.

The policy cautions employees about the content they post on their personal Websites, although it does not prohibit positing items that may be deemed inappropriate by some. Instead, Superintendent Karen Gallese said, the policy is intended to be less restrictive of rights of employee on their personal time, but to distance that personal time from their professions.

Gallese said the four-page policy was drafted by BVSUs three-member Policy Committee and herself using other districts policies as templates. Although, there are few examples of such a policy. Neighboring supervisory unions -- Southwest Vermont and Bennington-Rutland -- have Internet-use policies, but nothing specifically addressing social networking nor communication between students and staff outside of school.

A social networking policy was the idea of previous Superintendent Thomas Gallagher and the process began prior to Galleses hire this summer. Gallese said she agrees there is a need for one with the intent to prohibit social networking at the schools and restrict personal or damaging information from being made public.

Part of the policy states "staff should never use or access social networking sites of pupils and should never accept an invitation to friend a pupil."

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BVSU delays approval of stiff new social networking policy

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CEBU, Philippines - Banning social networking sites in the workplace is now considereda less popular method in promoting productivity andensuring IT security, a recent study revealed.

The study entitled Global IT Security Risks: 2012 showed that companies are most likelyto restrict access to online games, with 71 percent of the IT professionals surveryed saying this was part of their strategy.

The study further revealed that banning social networking sites, on the other hand,is not anymore popular.

The study,conducted by Kaspersky Lab, one of the worlds leading developers of secure content and threat management solutions,was carried out in partnership with B2B International in July 2012. It aims to find out the opinions of IT professionals in medium-sized to large enterprises regarding corporate security solutions, determine their level of knowledge of current threats, and look at how they evaluate risks.

Kaspersky surveyed more than 3,300 senior IT professionals from 22 countries. All respondents had an influence on IT security policy, and a good knowledge of both IT security issues and general business matters (finance, HR, etc.).

The results also covered measures which are directly related to infrastructure security and data safety. For example, 50% of companies have restricted or prohibited the use of file exchange services, and 47 percent have enforced similar rules for connecting external devices to work computers.

More worrying, though, 43 percent of IT specialists have already faced deliberate or accidental data leakage due to employee actions. This significant figure suggests there is insufficient control in terms of storing and communicating corporate information.

Of this figure, 42 percent of the respondents said that cybercrime will become a bigger concern in the next two years. This is more than likely to happen considering the increasing number of malicious programs and the emergence of new types of attack.

Half as many of the professionals surveyed believed there would be an increase in other IT risks: intellectual property theft and industrial espionage scored 19 percent each, while those foreseeing future risks coming from computer fraud amounted to 16 percent of the respondents.

Among the other IT security risks cited were intellectual property theft (31 percent), computer fraud (26 percent) and industrial espionage (24 percent).

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In this Jan. 28, 2011 file photo, the exterior view of LinkedIn headquarters is shown in Mountain View, Calif.

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With the growth of social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, as well as lesser-known sites Upspring, PerfectBusiness and Cofoundr professional networking with the use of social media as a recruitment tool is becoming more prominent.

Most employee recruiters 92 percent currently use, or plan to use, social media and networking sites for job recruiting this year, according to the Jobvite 2012 Social Recruitment Survey. This is a 3 percent increase from 2011 and 10 percent increase from 2010.

The most-used social media site, when it comes to recruitment and hiring, is LinkedIn: 89 percent of U.S. businesses have made a hire through it, compared to Facebook at 26 percent and Twitter at 15 percent.

"Social media, on the whole, is becoming a medium for work as well as play," as quoted in a report, "The Impact of Social Media," in 2011 from Nigel Wright Recruitment, a U.K.-based search firm with international influence to help connect highly qualified job candidates with businesses.

The report emphasizes how social networking is changing the nature of recruitment and how "essentially, companies and recruiters need to be where their candidates are in order to engage them in the recruitment process."

Finding someone to hire is becoming less labor intensive, and for those seeking jobs, "what used to take a tremendous amount of legwork on the part of the candidate can now be done through a quick search on the web," Chirag Nangia, CEO of Reppify said in a Q&A for Forbes.com. Reppify is a San Francisco-based business that helps companies find people to hire with the use of social media data.

Though applying and hiring can take place simply by sitting behind a computer, there are still things both parties have to do for the Internet, and specifically social media, to be an effective tool in job recruitment.

Chirag offers three recommendations to job seekers when it comes to their social media: Keep professional profiles up to date and complete, engage in online communities reflecting topics the candidate is passionate about, and network with professional connections on LinkedIn.

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