This topic looks at a very controversial issue surrounding social media. It originates from the idea of privacy and then looks at professional conduct and behaviour. In recent times there has been an increase in the number of people being disciplined or even terminated over a comment made on facebook or twitter. This link has details of some cases from around the world where this has happened.
The seminar was more effective than the lecture this week, we were all split into groups and given cases which we were to argue for disciplinary action and against disciplinary action. This highlighted the subjective nature of the issue, in the cases shown in the above link many of the cases seem to be dealt with in a very harsh way. These however are at the extreme end of these cases.
One way which companies have tried to take back control is through social networking codes of conduct which employees sign up to at the start of their employment. This type of document highlights the acceptable ways in which employees can interact with social media in relation to the company. It will also detail action which will be taken when these rules are not followed. This link has a copy of Surrey University's social networking policy.
I have been working on the thrid and final E-activity this week, I was to detail the social networking activity of an SME with specific relation to the 4P's in marketing. I chose Camp America who seem like a very large organisation but are infact very small, they do however use Web 2.0 applications to run the business therefore they can exist with a very small number of staff. The biggest dificulty I had with this E-activity was keeping to the 150 word count.
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