To police it? Block it. To manage it? I'm not aware of a product that can do it, but if you monitor/log, there is all sorts of stuff you can block without stymieing your marketing dept.
-- ME2 On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 5:07 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone know of any way to effectively police the use of social > networking in an environment? We have just been told that for some reason > all employees are to be allowed unrestricted access to social networking > sites, but obviously the management want to know whether users are taking a > lend, and spending all day on FarmVille or Bejewelled or looking at pictures > of their mates instead of updating our customer base as to events and > launches. There are a few Web 2.0 appliances that I have heard of that claim > to be able to perform in-depth filtering of social networking and > microblogging sites, but I was just wondering what other people who have had > this issue may have deployed to get around this. > > We already have WebSense here, but it's not clever enough to differentiate > between "business" and "leisure" usage of certain sites, at least certainly > not the version we currently use. > > > TIA, > > > > JRR > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able > rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such > a question." > > *IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual > addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, > privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, > no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the > intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email > is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an > irritating social faux pas. > > Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context > somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no > grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the > transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on > borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of > the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message > revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice > from Microsoft. > > However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your > computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have > received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk > and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes.* > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
