The document discusses the rise of social media and its impact on businesses. It notes that while social networking is not new, the scale at which people are using it is unprecedented. It raises challenges for information management as the lines between personal and professional information blur online. The document advocates developing social media policies and strategies to mitigate risks, protect privacy, and recognize potential opportunities and costs for businesses. Regular reviews and education are suggested to manage the dynamic social media landscape.

1. Social Media in the Enterprise The Information Management Challenge November 19,2009 Lisa Broadway Chow http://www.linkedin.com/in/lchow

2. Social Networking Fad or Fact of Life?

4. How Facebook is taking over our lives President Obama used it to get elected. Dell will recruit new hires with it. Microsoft's new operating system borrows from it. No question, Facebook has friends in high places. Can CEO Mark Zuckerberg make those connections pay off? By Jessi Hempel , writer Last Updated: March 11, 2009: 9:39 AM ET

6. Companies are awash in a flood of information. Most of it useful, even vital, but much of it is useless… and some of it is…

7. … downright dangerous!!!

8. IN RIM, it used to be corporate approved programs were a breeze and e-mail was your worst nightmare. Now, that looks like sugarplums doing a waltz!

9. Just when you catch up with technology, it leap frogs you.

10. We are going through a period of great change. This change is a product of the many new technologies made possible by modern science. These technologies, in turn, are rooted in the ways science has come to redefine our understanding of our world. Welcome to the … Quantum Age!

11. The big news is Social Networking is NOT new , but it is news.

13. Social networking is one of the biggest trends on the Web, with hundreds of millions of people participating. While social interaction and community organization on the Web is not new, the scale at which people are forming explicitly social connections in public forums is unique to social networks in the last couple years. Golbeck, Jennifer. "The dynamics of Web-based social networks: Membership, relationships, and change" First Monday [Online], Volume 12 Number 11 (28 October 2007)

16. Virtual communities form "when people carry on public discussions long enough, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs of personal relationships…”

17. When is a tweet not just a tweet?

20. The Constituent Grid Knowledge Intentions   Can you say product liability lawsuit worth millions in 140 characters, as one example??? The deadly dangerous dastardly deeds of the disgruntled, or just your competition Lord, if I can’t have an army, please give me apathy! An aligned army of corporate apostles!

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