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One in Two U.K. Companies Block Social Networking Web Sites

Friday, October 16th, 2009 at 2:07 pm

Fulbright & Jaworski, the international law firm, just published their 6th Annual Litigation Trends Survey Report. It is an independent survey of senior corporate counsel from a wide range of industry sectors. About half of the respondents (52% of U.K. and 46% of U.S.) claim to block employees from accessing social networking Web sites. Two… » Read More

Social Media and Your Compliance Program

Thursday, June 18th, 2009 at 2:07 pm

Bill Piwonka, Amanda Mayhew and Rodica Buzescu from EthicsPoint gave a webinar on social media and compliance. These are my notes: The presentation started with a user poll on the approach to social media at the attendees’ organizations: 27% block all social media sites 42% block a few social media sites only 29% allow all… » Read More

Bob Schiller’s Course on Financial Markets at Yale

Friday, June 12th, 2009 at 7:00 am

Yale University has published the lectures from its Economics 252 course on YouTube. There are 26 lectures from Robert Schiller and some of his guests during the Spring of 2008. (Yes, that Robert Schiller.) This ECON 252 course is one of several courses available from Open Yale. These are selected lectures and other materials from… » Read More

Online Social Networking: Is It a Productivity Bust or Boon?

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 at 12:00 pm

I recently had an article on Faceblocking published in the March 2009 issue of Law Practice magazine: Online Social Networking: Is It a Productivity Bust or Boon for Law Firms? Steve Matthews and I conducted an informal poll to see if we could confirm that law firms were blocking access to social networking sites. Our… » Read More

Video Inviting You To Help Fight Against Corruption

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 at 7:45 am

To mark the World Economic Forum’s International Anti-Corruption Day on Dec. 9, 2008, executives from companies in the Forum’s Partnering Against Corruption Initiative appear in this video inviting ideas on how to fight corruption. Speaking in the the video are (in order of appearance) Peter Bakker, Chief Executive Officer, TNT, Netherlands; Alan L. Boeckmann, President… » Read More