Now is the time to advertise that work email != personal email. If people are using Facebook, etc for business and marketing reasons then they should learn how to differentiate between personal and business use styles. They definitely should not be using their work email for their personal stuff. You probably cannot solve this much with technology but you can make significant headway with education and reminders (internal newsletters).
Unless you fall into the class that holds their end users (customers) in contempt. If you believe your end users are incapable of learning, then you will have a challenging set of opportunities ahead. We all have those special individuals that make life exciting in the morning, but those are generally known individuals. End user mistakes will happen, but really it's just a way to educate the rest. Steven On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Ben Schorr <b...@rolandschorr.com> wrote: > I can’t speak to the Facebook connector, as I haven’t seen it yet, but the > LinkedIn connector does NOT send any info to LinkedIn about mail you > send/receive. In fact what it does is download your LinkedIn contacts list > to a special Outlook Contacts folder. All of the profile > synchronization/updating happens there. > > > > Ben M. Schorr > Chief Executive Officer > ______________________________________________ > Roland Schorr & Tower > www.rolandschorr.com > b...@rolandschorr.com > > > > > > From: James Hill [mailto:james.h...@superamart.com.au] > Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 4:04 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Outlook 2010 - Social Connectors > > > > We are currently piloting Outlook 2010 and I’m interested in everyone’s > thoughts on the Social Connectors. > > > > Whilst not all of the connectors are available yet it won’t be long before > they are. > > > > What is interesting to me is that it opens up a much larger social/work > interconnect then we had before. Whilst we allow staff to use Social > Networking apps like Facebook we also limit the amount of use to an hour per > day(so they can spend their whole lunch break on there if they wish). But > with integration into business apps, Outlook, the potential for interruption > will be huge. > > > > I’m also curious about the security implications:- > > > > * These programs may send the e-mail addresses from e-mail you send and > receive to third-party social networks. The social networks may use the > e-mail addresses to provide you activity feeds. > > > > What’s to stop this info being spread to other Facebook apps? Farmtown > invites will be going to the CEO from their assistants friends in no time J > > > > Many businesses have a strict policy on social networking which results in > zero access. We haven’t taken that approach here as some research suggests > there MAY be benefits to allowing it. > > > > Interesting times ahead. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
