Organizations should send a balanced message through their ranks about the business results they are driving for and the acceptable methods by which these results are obtained.
Training, and especially the trend for greater use of informal learning methods, is driving the workforce enablement groups in HR to hastily ping some social computing tool or technology, and later seek out how it should be integrated with the rest of the company.
Civil liberties groups say having several methods of identification, including passports, driving licences and benefit cards, is still the safest option.
The explosive growth of Chinese social-networking sites coupled with inadequate recruiting platforms, is driving many companies in China to experiment with new methods such as social media.