Businesses Struggle To Control Social Networking

Lucas123 writes "Businesses in highly regulated industries are trying to strike a balance between workers who use social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to communicate, and trying to satisfy federal requirements to monitor, capture, and audit all forms of electronic communications. As with instant messaging a decade ago, corporations are first blocking all access to the applications, and then considering what tools may be available to control them in the future. A cottage industry is being built around software that can not only control access to social networking websites but also ensure conversations over those websites can be stored for electronic discovery purposes."

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Department of Defense is struggling with this also

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The DoD has been struggling with this same issues as well, they recently issued guidance that opened up social media on their networks.

http://socialmedia.defense.gov/index.php/2010/02/26/dod-official-policy-on-newsocial-media/