The approach the company I work for is to say that you should not spend more than 1 hour per day on social networking/personal webmail/etc sites per day. I assume they just gather up the proxy logs and scan them though looking for offenders. Obviously leaving facebook open on a tab with some of itself-updating bits could soon get you into trouble!
The idea that I am trying to get is that it might be better to try and make it self-policed by the end users. From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: 01 April 2011 14:41 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Social networking fun I use iPrism and I am pretty sure you can report on, and categorize, such sites in a fashion that would allow access during hours X through Y, etc. You can also make user defined site categories and put sites in those categories for reports or filtering. BF From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 8:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Social networking fun Does anyone know of any way to effectively police the use of social networking in an environment? We have just been told that for some reason all employees are to be allowed unrestricted access to social networking sites, but obviously the management want to know whether users are taking a lend, and spending all day on FarmVille or Bejewelled or looking at pictures of their mates instead of updating our customer base as to events and launches. There are a few Web 2.0 appliances that I have heard of that claim to be able to perform in-depth filtering of social networking and microblogging sites, but I was just wondering what other people who have had this issue may have deployed to get around this. We already have WebSense here, but it's not clever enough to differentiate between "business" and "leisure" usage of certain sites, at least certainly not the version we currently use. TIA, JRR -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. QinetiQ may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security. QinetiQ Limited (Registered in England & Wales: Company Number: 3796233) Registered office: Cody Technology Park, Ively Road, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 0LX http://www.qinetiq.com. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
