Comments on: How to Limit Time Spent on Social Media

By: ruby on rails

ruby on rails — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:27:43 +0000

Discipline with hard-work we can beat this addiction, and use these tools the way they were intended.

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Sat, 25 Sep 2010 01:05:21 +0000

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By: Rob Berman

Rob Berman — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:40:23 +0000

Thanks Gini. That idea is now going into my folder for blog posts.

Rob

By: The Risks of Social Media: Decreased Worker Productivity - Risks, Projects and Energy

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:19:08 +0000

[...] more on the topic, Gini Dietrich of the excellent blog Spin Sucks seems to share my view, calling worker productivity a “management issue” not a social [...]

By: Dallas Kincaid

Dallas Kincaid — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:16:23 +0000

With my employees, I keep it more like don’t ask, don’t tell. I know everyone is doing it, but I don’t want to see it. With the type of business I’m in, it’s impossible to block it nor do I think I really want to. It’s certainly interesting reading the comments and I think a social media policy is an EXCELLENT idea that I’m going to integrate into my employee manual.

By: Michael Koehler

Michael Koehler — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:12:13 +0000

We actually have a pretty fair internet policy I think. I’ve only come across 1 site that I would frequent that was blocked and it was more because so many people were on it soaking up bandwidth vs. content(Pandora).

By: Gini Dietrich

Gini Dietrich — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:24:48 +0000

Rob, VERY good point! Every company should have a social media policy.

By: Gini Dietrich

Gini Dietrich — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:24:25 +0000

Mike, it’s interesting to get the perspective of an employee from a large company. I actually love that the policy is “use it, but get your work done.”

By: Gini Dietrich

Gini Dietrich — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:23:13 +0000

Krista, I love that you watch the videos! You’re absolutely right…everyone here has to be connected on the social networks for their jobs, too. When I first started, I would block time to do social media. Now I just do it in between meetings, just like email.

By: Rob Berman

Rob Berman — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:43:44 +0000

Gini:

I agree it is a management issue. Of course, it helps if the company has a Social Media policy in place to help guide the employees. Then, the manager is reinforcing the policy rather than making the policy up at the moment.

Rob