How Social Media Policy Guidelines Stifle Innovation

social media policy guidelines

Is free speech critical to innovation, or is it okay to tell employees what they can and can’t say in your organization’s social media policy guidelines? It’s the questions I’m asking myself right now. I’m thinking my Social Media Policy Template and Social Media Policy Development Training Course may be in need of an update?…

Read More

Social Media and the Arab Spring

social media arab spring

It was not because of social media that Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor set himself on fire to protest the confiscation of his wares and the harassment and humiliation inflicted on him by the Tunisian Government. But it was social media that help turn his self-immolation into a catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the…

Read More

Iraq War Social Media Information Operations Case Study

This case study reveals how the US Dept. of Defense integrated social media as an information operations capability without compromising operational security (OPSEC). This conflict continued for at least a next decade as an Iraqi insurgency emerged to oppose the occupying forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government and this article details precisely the role social…

Read More