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storagedude writes "Clara Shih, who created the first business app on Facebook in 2007, is back with a new venture: Hearsay Social, which makes Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn more palatable to corporations by adding features like SEC and FINRA monitoring and compliance and analytics. Conversations are monitored around the clock, regardless of where employees access pages from — work, home or mobile — and workflow tools let companies approve or suggest content before it appears. Those features appear to be making financial companies a little more comfortable Facebooking, as State Farm and Farmers Insurance are two early customers. Shih is backed in the new venture by veterans of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube."
This is what "free" as in "free market" is supposed to look like, right?
In the article there's no mention of monitoring employees conversations, SEC or FINRA..Am i missing something?
State Farm and Farmers Insurance are two early customers
The biggest incentive was the presence of FarmVille as new market niche, but until know not enough support for the employees to create a coherent sale pitch for this segment. Now, this is possible... loud an clear... mooo!
Questions raise, answers kill. Raise questions to stay alive.
Employees will just create multiple profiles. Idiot companies can monitor the public one, while the alter egos come out and play at night.
Stop trying to monetise, captilalise and otherwise sodomise both social networks and your employees and return to a culture where performance is rewarded instead of babysitting braindead employees.
These posts express my own personal views, not those of my employer
"But Shih said Facebook profiles are a marketer's wet dream because users reveal so much about their interests, such as favorite sports, hobbies and product preferences."
FTFY
I've been concerned for a while now that my corporate overlords haven't had enough access to my personal life or to monitor me during my personal time. I have already given them access to GPS on my phone, my personal e-mail, and my Facebook account - so I would be happy for them to automate this so my wonderful employers can, at a click of a button, see me every minute of every day, and so we can both work together to prevent negative thoughts or words that might impact my performance or more seriously the companies image.
/., I realise it was expensive for PR and legal to sign off on its wording and I will work to pay back the costs it incurred the company (by having them take it out of my pay each month).
I would also like to thank my boss, Mr. Smith, for allowing me to post this message to
FTFA, all it sounds like is a workflow system for controlling what can be done through a company's official presence(s) on Facebook. For example, it allows managers to moderate both employees handling those presences and other Facebook users trying to post on their wall, etc.
How is that "big brother?" That's almost like calling Slashdot comment moderation a form of Stalinist repression (when we all know, that label rightly belongs to Digg)
Isn't this... Illegal?
I'm someone who's only been to Facebook a few times, due to Google searches taking me there. I understand that it's a social site for people to post information about themselves and communicate with friends who use the service. I don't understand it when I see a product saying "Come visit us on Facebook!". Is this just a glorified web page? Why not just put up a website for your company, and let people link to it? Maybe it's like software APIs or something, where the company's Facebook page is a sort of wrapper that makes their interface match that of other Facebook users?
You can, like I do, create TWO profiles. one that is my professional profile, and one that is my private profile. my private profile does not have my name or any of my real info linked to it, and it is kept separate completely, I'm not even a friend of myself!
And if I wanted to out my company for doing bad things, I'd create a third unconnected account to oust them on. So this system they are making is only good for getting the stupid people, and give corporations a "nice fuzzy feeling"(tm) they get when oppressing their employees.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
The Real Big Brother(tm) checked into Facebook a long long time ago. They signed in as "Accel Partners investment group".. *walks away casually*
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Before you all jump on the bandwagon, this is about monitoring and being involved in the workflow of company accounts, not controlling what employees say on their personal accounts. I cannot see anything bad about this and in fact when I first saw it yesterday I thought it was a nice business idea.
Effectively it is for companies with local branches (like a franchise) where head office wants some control over the official social media accounts of their sub-branches or franchisees. It means branches can run their own social media marketing, but head office can be involved in the workflow to ensure it fits in with corporate policy and marketing.
I'm sure its open to abuse, but what isn't?
I love the split personality of Slashdot.
Company accused of insider trading – claims it will take months to recover the e-mail. The tragedy!
Company wants to monitor employee’s conversations to monitor of insider trading [and because the SEC, FINRA says those records must be kept for 7 years.].and is lambasted.
Talk about a double standard.
I know a couple of brokers who would like to use social media to keep in contract with their employers but can’t. Now, I am troubled that because everything that can be recorded these days is. But that is a different story.
how would I go about convincing my employer that our accounting form would benefit from being a part of these social networks?
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"Is Facebook ready for business? That's a question that's been bandied about for years as a growing number of companies have hoped to leverage the popularity of the social networking site that has exploded to more than 500 million users worldwide."
Dear management types,
Thank you SO much for showing up on the Internet. Thanks for the things you did with Napster and MySpace. Thanks for SCO. Thanks for patents, DRM, the copyright extensions. Thanks for insisting that everyone use Microsoft products. Have I told you how happy I've been since I started saying "fine, I'll accept your friend request" to my co-workers?
There's a brand new, totally awesome, cutting edge tool making the rounds that would be absolutely fabulous for your bottom line, in addition to making some damn fine publicity. I'd strongly recommend that you be a first-comer rather than late to the party on this one.
It's called "fire." Jump on in!
What if we all just... stop using Facebook? (or never start, in some cases)
Will it become compulsory?
...from ever having to work at places like those.
I suspect this is because all the internal company social media sites (rapidly created after social media became the trendy thing) all failed. The next step is to use the social media sites people are using anyway.
Could someone explain the "it's-like-alabama-for-everyone-else dept." tagline?
Yes, I know my state sucks in a lot of ways, but I have a bad feeling I didn't get the memo about how it's sucked lately.
Step into a huge movement. Don't Tread In Me.
If the measure of success in our society, is to work for corporations that would treat their employees like chattel, then I'll always be proud to be a "loser".
Now if only someone could make it more palatable to me.
And in a related note, given all the current buzz about The Social Network cleaning up at the Oscars, am I the only one around who thinks that movie completely sucks ass?