Well, as long as we're discussing IM, we don't allow it currently. But, I have trouble understanding how IM is better than either email or a meeting, or using a telephone to accomplish the very same thing as an IM. Can someone explain that to me. Oh, we've recently adopted social networking for our organization, but primarily for our membership. I'm having trouble understanding how social networking will help our members too!
Murray ________________________________ From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 11:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Internet Policies It all depends if there is a business or productivity reason for it. We use IM in some of the departments for meetings, quick conversations, etc. But if it is used for wasting time, I would not allow it. On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:38 AM, John Aldrich < jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com> wrote: What restrictions, if any, do your organizations place on things like IM or social networking sites? I sent out a warning to the office personnel this morning regarding the new "IM Virus" and got an email back from the CEO basically stating "shouldn't that be a violation of company policy anyway?" and I had to tell him, I knew of no policies regarding that; and that in fact, my former supervisor was fully aware of at least one person (who's child is overseas in the military) who used IM on a semi-regular basis. For this reason, I'm working on coming up with a company policy. I've looked at the sample template from SANS as well as another one that someone sent me off-list. I'm planning on incorporating the best of everything I get, so if anyone has any suggested language regarding IM or social networking, please let me have it. J ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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