Archive | September, 2010
Materials from Social Media Policies

Materials from Social Media Policies

As a follow-up to my presentation on social media polices at the Virtual Corporate Counsel Forum, I’m publishing the slide deck and links to some of the items I discussed. Social Media Policies Download the PowerPoint: ALM Social Media Policies FTC Action against Ann Taylor FTC Action Against Reverb SEC Guidance on the Use of [...]

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Organized Labor and Social Media Policies

While preparing for my presentation today on social media policies, I came a cross this great article by Seth Borden: Labor Disputes Arising out of Social Media. Having organized labor in your workforce will complicate the creation and enforcement of a social media policy. Potential unionizing activities offer similar problems. Employers must consider traditional labor [...]

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Virtual Corporate Counsel Forum

Virtual Corporate Counsel Forum: Social Media Policies

The folks at ALM are producing an online version of their Corporate Counsel’s annual General Counsel Conferences. I’m stepping in to fill a lat minute vacancy for one session: Social Media Policies: Crafting a Uniform Policy Across your Organization and Enforcing It. I’ll be joining Valerie L. Boccadoro, Director and Senior Intellectual Property Counsel at [...]

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New York Stock Exchange and Corporate Governance

Last week, the NYSE Euronext released the final report of the NYSE–sponsored Commission on Corporate Governance. The report identified 10 core governance principles. They cover the scope of the board’s authority, management’s responsibility for governance and the relationship between shareholders’ trading activities, voting decisions and governance. The Commission on Corporate Governance was established in the [...]

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Katy Perry and Compliance

Katy Perry just wanted to play dress-up. Elmo ran away. Just like Elmo, Sesame Street decided they wanted to get away from Ms. Perry. Her outfit showed too much cleavage. It’s not the first time Sesame Street has pulled a video. They pulled a video with Chris Brown when he was accused of domestic violence. [...]

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100 Best Legal Blogs

The ABA Journal is compiling its annual list of 100 best legal blogs (They use “blawgs.” I hate that term.) They would like your advice on which legal blogs you think they should include. Use the Blawg 100 Amici form to tell the ABA Journal about a legal blog that you read regularly and think [...]

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Compliance Bits and Pieces for September 24

Here are recent compliance related stories from the past week: In case you missed it: Its Official: Recession Ended June 2009 by Barry Ritholtz in The Big Picture The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research met yesterday by conference call. At its meeting, the committee determined that a trough in [...]

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The Most Influential People in Corporate Governance

The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) publishes the Directorship 100. They surveyed 15,000 public company directors and executives to form the final 100 honorees. I was interested to see how they broke them into groups: Regulators and Rule Makers Directors CEOs Governance Policy Makers Attorneys Investors Auditors Recruiters Compensators D&O Insurers, Governance Advisors Corporate [...]

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Social Networking Malware as Affinity Fraud

Panda Security released its first annual Social Media Risk Index for small- and medium-sized businesses. They surveyed 315 US SMBs with up to 1,000 employees during the month of July. 33 percent of these companies had experienced a malware or virus infection from social networks 23 percent citing employee privacy violations resulting in the loss [...]

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The SEC’s Busy Rule-Making Agenda

The SEC’s Busy Rule-Making Agenda

In many instances, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act merely set a framework for financial reform and left much of the heavy lifting to the financial regulatory agencies. The SEC published their agenda for the implementation of Dodd-Frank. It is a long list. Compliance leaders are going to very busy keeping track [...]

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