I've had an opportunity to casually explore the attitudes of hundreds of large and small companies whose employees attend my full-day New Rules of Marketing seminar and my keynote speeches. In my very unscientific questioning, my guess is that about 25% of companies block employee access to YouTube, Facebook, and other social networking sites.
Twenty-five percent block access!
That is a huge number of companies that are putting their organizations at a disadvantage.
I can't tell you the names of the nanny-state dinosaurs. But you'd be amazed at some of the big names that are too scared to let people into the world of social media.
One company I can talk about is on the other side. IBM is on the forefront of embracing employee use of social media (more on IBM later in this post).
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