Short answer: Not going to happen. This is a managerial issue. At best, you can report all users time against such sites, and for those who are failing to get their mission objectives completed in a timely fashion, correlation of their web usage patterns should provide some hints as to why.
*ASB *(Professional Bio <http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio>) *Technology Services that Maximize Business Results... * On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:45 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote: > WebSense can do the hours bit too, but what I am looking for is to actually > restrict or report on their particular access for single sites, e.g. using > Facebook for work, or using Facebook for mucking about. Not sure you can > sub-categorize sites. > > On 1 April 2011 14:40, Bob Fronk <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I use iPrism and I am pretty sure you can report on, and categorize, such >> sites in a fashion that would allow access during hours X through Y, etc. >> >> >> >> You can also make user defined site categories and put sites in those >> categories for reports or filtering. >> >> >> >> BF >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] >> *Sent:* Friday, April 01, 2011 8:08 AM >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* Social networking fun >> >> >> >> 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 >> >> ~ 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
