Working for Lidl

An article in The Guardian's G2 area yesterday took perusers into the universe of Lidl, one of the quickest extending sustenance retail outlets in the UK. The article - Cheap - yet not all that lively? (Helen Pidd) - uncovers a side of Lidl that a large number of its customers...

Grip tightening on what you can say about employers on the Internet?

According to a commentary from The Guardian, corporations and employment tribunals square measure finally going to grips with social networking, therein several firms currently have a social media/blogging policy as a part of their written agreement terms with staff, in addition as employment tribunals recently upholding variety of dismissals against...

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Teachers warned about use of Twitter and Facebook

Scottish teachers are being warned that their use of social networking sites could put their careers at risk. The Scottish Secondary Teachers Association believes teachers can reveal too much personal information on sites such as Facebook and Twitter. The union also fears they could become overly familiar with pupils. For more details see: Teachers...

College staff rise up against principal

Some anonymous employees of Adam Smith College in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland have taken to the Internet to vent their apparent individual and collective lack of faith in their current Principal and Board of Directors. See the following website/blog: It's our college not Craig's. Not...

What happens when the company Twitter user quits?

Hopefully what's typical isn't to be outlined by this text recently within the Guardian: A Twitter user is being sued for £217,000 by his former leader for taking his on-line followers with him once he switched jobs. Noah Kravitz, a author from Oakland, California, amassed 17,000...

Police blogger sues The Times

Work-related blogs seem to possess been wedged within the recent public enquiry on the newspaper business, i.e. the unlawful hacking into telephones and email accounts by journalists within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. In this instance it's the owner...

Legal issues and blogging

I stumbled on a decent article the opposite day courtesy of NetworkWorld that considers the Legal risks of blogging. The author (not certain WHO it's - the name Klosek is mentioned at the end) believes companies ought to be cautious of blogs for variety of reasons. the explanations...

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Tweeting taxi driver

The BBC News web site ran a writing in the week a few Tweeting taxi driver in Thailand. It would appear such activities have turned the taxi driver into to a small degree a neighborhood and international celebrity. To browse additional and consider a video see however tweeting...