Social-Media Frenzy – Every employee in your company has a role in social media

Instead of leveraging the power that employees bring to social engagement, many companies remain overly-wary of social networks.

According to a recent study, Facebook remains the most-blocked and most-filtered website by companies. The openDNS study, said that 14 percent of companies blacklist Facebook — compared to the 1.2 percent of companies that blacklist adult-oriented sites like playboy.com and pornhub.com. Other social networking sites among the ‘Top 5 blacklisted sites’ include MySpace (10%), YouTube (8%) and Twitter (2%). The same social network sites are also frequently filtered by companies: Facebook (23%), MySpace (13%), YouTube (12%), and Twitter (4%). Companies blacklist and block social network sites because they’re afraid of the affect these sites have on productivity and bandwidth.

Troy Janisch

Full Story: http://wistechnology.com/articles/8293/

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Social-Media Frenzy

Amid the chatter, companies are beginning to achieve tangible benefits.

David McCann – CFO Magazine

Full Story: http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/14550777