shirish wrote:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 06:22, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
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You are the boss but what about your employees. Are you paying them for using your company time and resources to network with their friends and relatives? I have to deal with such guys practically every few days when they complain of viruses and spyware. All because their employers do not follow and implement proper office discipline.
Hi all, FWIW it really depends on what your business/trade is. What if the job/work depends on social-networking. Perhaps its me but what I have seen/heard/experienced is that free software and social-networking goes hand-in-hand as is business and everything else.
That is absolutely true. We encourage officers and managers to use social networking sites, for work and information. It is a source of a lot of information, queries, leads and business referrals. For example (and this topic is OT), for the launch of our new Joint Venture, Business Over Breakfast, people in my office sent about 1400 messages to people in the various social network sites to introduce the concept without having to spend huge money on advertisements. And we had to stay connected to the sites to be able to give prompt replies to any queries that would come from any of those 1400 people we started a converstaion with
-- Regards,
Rony.
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