Professionalism in social networking

Matthias LiffersEmerging Technologies Specialist

@mpfl

Silly things on the Internet

Private might not be private

I heard a rumour

“Apple was OK to fire man for private Facebook comments”

The Register, 03/11/2011

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/03/apple_employee_fired/

Friends aren’t always friends

“New Law to Stop Companies from Checking Facebook Pages in Germany”

Spiegel Online, 08/23/2010

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,713240,00.html

We don’t live in Germany

Lead by example

“Not so private professors”

Inside Higher Ed, 02/03/2010

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/03/02/facebook

At the very least

http://www.linkedin.com/

Reputation is everything

But…

Some people just need to learn the hard way

What do you think?

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