Who, What, Why . . .
Who does it apply to: Any employer interested in protecting their business from the potential consequences of not doing background checks and some employers who are otherwise required to perform checks.
What kind of checks are there: At first, you might just think of the basic criminal background check
Yesterday the Huffington Post reported an interesting story about how Maneesh Sethi used Craig’s List to employ a “slapper” to keep him from wasting time on Facebook when he should be working. Digging deeper, I found Sethi’s own blog post on his website Hackthesystem.com where he described how he first came upon the idea. Using
Facebook privacy among employees has been discussed for a long time, but a couple of recent events have brought the issue to the forefront of public discussion. At the beginning of the month Forbes reported on a lawsuit moving forward in Minnesota against a school district that requires Facebook passwords of students. Then, last Friday,
I learned this morning from the Dallas Business Journal that Facebook has launched a rival site to Linkedin which is called BeKnown.com. Seriously? Is there any chance that we could shrink our online persona instead of increasing it? How many places do I truly need to be found? How many places do we 
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Who, What, Why . . .
Who does it apply to: Every employer, regardless of whether employees access the internet at work.
What is it: Blogging, use of sites like Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, Twitter, Digg, LinkedIn, and the like. Virtually every person in the workforce has some access to a computer and likely uses one