Way back when I was still working in IT for a small company, I remember reading and being involved in decisions about whether buying software like MS Exchange was the safe, easy way to go, or whether you got more bang for your buck by having software and tools that you could customize to your…
Earlier today, I caught site of an interesting blog post thanks to Niki Black. A Box You Want to Uncheck on LinkedIn Apparently, LinkedIn has followed in Facebooks footsteps, and automatically enabled a feature that lets them use your information and image in advertisements on the site. (As well as some other defaults to allow their…
A couple of weeks ago, my wife sent me an email with a link to this PC-Mag article. ???FTC-Approved Company Will Save Dirt from Your Facebook Profile for 7 Years. My first reaction was that isn’t all that surprising, and people really do need to learn to think before they post anything to a social…
I try to keep my feelings, and many opinions, about sports off the blog. But sometimes, sports provides an excellent example of something that applies in the professional realm. One recent example is Jim Tressel resigning from Ohio State. Obviously, I lived in Columbus for some 25 years, I’ve followed OSU football a little, and…
Patrick DiDomenico does a great job of testing out Facebook’s “Download your Information” feature and testing exactly how useful it would be as a form of electronic discovery. He concludes: According to my test, the Facebook DYI feature gathers a user’s information as it appears in their Facebook account at the time of the initiation…
Since I’m learning a batch of new tools as part of the day job, I wanted to make note of something that came through TechoLawyer last week. I figured the best place to keep it, and share it for anyone who might want to learn more about these tools as well, would be to post…