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By: Nicholas Erwin

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I recently decided, somewhat randomly, to experiment a bit more with social networking. I was on LinkedIn and at some point the service asked me if it could access my Gmail contact list.

"Why not?" I thought and let LinkedIn have at it ...

Now, I don't know if you're aware of this, but Gmail keeps track of everyone you have ever had any contact with. For example, let's say Bob sends you a message and he copies a thousand people. Gmail notes each one. It doesn't do this in "My Contacts," but sensibly in "Other Contacts." And when you give LinkedIn access to your Gmail contact it can see everything, including "Other Contacts."

So after chewing on my contacts for a few minutes, LinkedIn said to me what amounted to, "Hey, I just found 4,500 people in your Gmail contacts list ... can I ask them to connect?"

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This kind of messages either makes you think, "Gad, no! Just shoot me now," or, if you're wiling to just throw caution to the wind, something like, "Why not, let's do it, but let me edit that first." I thought the latter and started editing the list.

After an hour of weeding out the people I really wanted nothing to do with I finally got down to around 4000 people and had had enough. I muttered, "Oh, what the hell ... let's do it and see what happens!" and pressed the "Do it" button. Yes, I am indeed a wild and devil-may-care kinda guy, and so with that click off went a tsunami of contact requests.

Over the next few days literally hundreds of people, with nary a qualm, connected with me. My list of LinkedIn contacts grew rapidly and a few of those new connections sent me messages and conversations started.

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How do you manage your social networks?

It's a new year and time for employers to consider updating your policies. Given that the past 12 months have seen continued development of social networking sites and a corresponding increase in the number of cases relating to employees' inappropriate behaviour online, we recommend implementing a social media policy in addition to a general E-mail and Internet policy.

A social media policy may be tailored specifically to meet an employer's business needs, and can be used to provide a clear statement to employees of required standards and unacceptable use of social media accounts. As with any policy, it is critical for an employer to ensure that employees are aware of a social media policy and that they are expected to comply with its terms. Below we set out five reasons why you may need a social media policy.

An evolving workplace

As technology evolves, so too do potential concerns regarding employees' online behaviour. It's not uncommon in the modern workplace for an employee to have access to a "private" email account, social media sites, and personal blogs at their workplace desktop.

Time spent at work premises can no longer be relied upon as being the definitive line between "work-related" and "personal" behaviour. With flexible work arrangements becoming more commonplace, many employees work from home using portable devices. A recent study found that employees of "Generation Y" (born from the mid-1980s) highly value being able to socialise on social media sites during working hours in exchange for being accessible for work at other times.

The traditional employer approach of "blocking" certain websites in the workplace is no longer effective, as an employee can alternatively access the Internet on a smart phone or other personal device. An effective social media policy sets out an employer's expectations of what online behaviour is and is not acceptable.

Potential for damage by "online" comments

Employees (and/or their "friends") have been known to post online comments that are disrespectful or damaging to their employer or create a hostile work environment. Online social media posts are permanent, searchable, accessible to a wide audience and open to misinterpretation. Of most concern to an employer, they are largely uncontrollable.

Recently in the UK an employee was accused of inappropriate use of social media because he uploaded his CV to LinkedIn. The CV contained allegedly derogatory statements about his employer, and he ticked a 'career opportunities' box to request communications from recruiters. The employment dispute that resulted ultimately led to his resignation, and the employee claimed constructive dismissal. The case, which went to the English Employment Tribunal, illustrates the vast potential for legal issues arising from employees' use of social networking at work.

It is critical to ensure that an employee understands the responsibility that comes with hosting a social media site such as a Facebook page, including liability for a third party's comments or posts. Employers should make it clear that online comments will be treated (and may result in disciplinary action) in the same way as comments made in " real life".

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5 reasons why you need a social media policy

BELMONT, CA--(Marketwire - Jan 29, 2013) - Actiance, helping organizations benefit from communications, collaboration and social networking, today announced that CIBC Wood Gundy, the brokerage arm of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), has implemented Socialite to begin allowing its advisors to leverage social networks effectively and compliantly for marketing and sales efforts.

According to an Environics Research Group March 2012 survey of Canadian financial advisors, roughly one in four are using social media in some capacity in their practices and one-quarter of those advisors are using LinkedIn to communicate. Understanding the importance of these new communication channels, CIBC Wood Gundy selected Socialite to allow its advisors to use LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook to both build and maintain business through social channels in a manner that ensures compliance with industry regulations.

The Socialite platform allows any organization to maximize the value of social media by empowering employees to share pre-approved content, interact with clients and prospects, and analyze the impact of published content.

"From brand awareness to maintaining and building a book of business, the socially savvy financial advisor is truly starting to make social media work for them," says Sarah Carter, general manager of Social Business at Actiance. "And while our technology platform provides for the automation of compliance and engagement capabilities, the experts in our social engagement team help organizations truly unleash social business. We're excited to see CIBC Wood Gundy leap forward with initiatives that cement their position as thought leaders and equip their advisors with the platform and support to communicate in the social world."

For more information on Actiance or its products, please visit: http://www.actiance.com http://twitter.com/actiance http://blog.actiance.com

About ActianceActiance is a global leader in communication, collaboration, and social media governance for the enterprise. Its governance platform is used by millions of professionals across dozens of industries. With the power of communication, collaboration, and social media at their fingertips, Actiance helps professionals everywhere to engage with customers and colleagues to unleash social business.

The Actiance platform gives organizations the ability to ensure compliance for all their communications channels. It provides real-time content monitoring, centralized policy management, contextual capture of content and smart archiving which improves the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of eDiscovery and helps protect users from malware and accidental or malicious leakage of information. Actiance supports all leading social media, unified communications, collaboration, and IM platforms, including Facebook (FB), LinkedIn (LNKD), Twitter, Google (GOOG), Yahoo! (YHOO), Skype, IBM (IBM), Jive (JIVE), Microsoft (MSFT), Cisco (CSCO), and Salesforce.com (CRM).

Actiance headquarters are in Belmont, California. For more information, visit http://www.actiance.com or call 1-888-349-3223.

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We are also committed to providing an open source solutions to Social Networking through Codeplex, says Sanjay Manchanda, director, Microsoft business division, Microsoft India

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NEW DELHI, INDIA: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) has gained appreciable traction in the enterprise market over the last few years. As of FY 07 08, Microsoft has sold 100 million licenses for SharePoint generating sales of $1 billion worldwide.

The Microsoft figures point out17000 businesses use SharePoint to tackle their information management needs and to enable employees to collaborate with team members. In India SharePoint revenue have grown by 56% CAGR over the last 4 years and company has over 100 customers on MOSS 2007 in India.

However, analysts have been questioning MOSS capability to scale well in comparison with IBM Websphere. They have also raised doubts about social networking tools for Share Point, which analysts, opine are less advanced and quite uninspiring, when compared to social networking tools in enterprise today.

Idhries Ahmad of CIOL caught with Sanjay Manchanda, director, Microsoft Business Division (India)to put forward his side of story.

Sanjay also talked in detail how Microsoft plans to ward threat from about the IBM/Lotus and company plans to partner or acquire any other big social networking players to improve its social networking bouquet.

Sanjay also talks about trend of Indian enterprises waking up to social-computing tools and technologies.

CIOL: Can you pinpoint specific reasons as to why Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) has been received well by customers?. Please detail some features why enterprises should deploy MOSS 2007?.

Sanjay Manchanda: We have seen tremendous response to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) which is an integrated platform for enterprise search, content management, business intelligence, collaboration and corporate portals. Today, these are critical parts of an enterprises IT infrastructure.

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