Here’s a question: Who bans access to Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Gmail and pretty much every other social media or social networking site you can think of? China, you say? Well, you’d be right. But the answer could also be: most of
corporate South Africa.
Here at Grubstreet I’m my own boss, so I say that I can access anything I like. I’m a great boss! But what about you poor suckers out there? Does your company block sites that you can access from work? Does your company talk about “social media strategies” and then stop everyone at work from actually accessing social media?
Do South African companies appreciate the power of social media as a business tool or do they simply not give a toss? Well, here’s a chance to share your views with the Grubstreet survey. Take a few minutes to complete the survey and let’s see where Corporate SA is on this.
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March 10th, 2010 at 11:14 am
My company blocks all of these sites, including Zoopy!
March 10th, 2010 at 4:14 pm
Yip, and there are media companies that block their journalists from many of these sites too. Not sure how they think people are ever going to get into the integrated news room thing if they can’t use social networks.
March 11th, 2010 at 8:53 am
My job involves social media everyday. Nothing is blocked
March 29th, 2010 at 8:20 am
Since companies own the resources, including the time they purchase from employees to perform certain functions, they may well be unwilling to relinquish control over the use of those resources or the ends to which they are applied. So, until social networking technologies are profitably incorporated into the business processes of organisations, it is likely that business owners and managers will consider employees’ use of such resources as something akin to theft.