Posts Tagged ‘ Twitter ’

Risk management, Twitter and sugarless gum

October 5, 2011

I read two articles yesterday which suggested to me that 1-in-5 people in leadership positions are confused. A PwC survey revealed that only “21% of leaders understand the potential value of social media”. In another survey by Greenwich Associates and reported in Risk Management Magazine, “The study finds that less than 20% of participating companies say their boards of directors fully agree that ERM is a real strategic imperative for their companies.” Of course we all know about the 1 out of 5 people surveyed who would not recommend Trident sugarless gum to their patients who chew gum. Therefore, it would…

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Risk management, Twitter and sugarless gum

October 5, 2011

I read two articles yesterday which suggested to me that 1-in-5 people in leadership positions are confused. A PwC survey revealed that only “21% of leaders understand the potential value of social media”. In another survey by Greenwich Associates and reported in Risk Management Magazine, “The study finds that less than 20% of participating companies say their boards of directors fully agree that ERM is a real strategic imperative for their companies.” Of course we all know about the 1 out of 5 people surveyed who would not recommend Trident sugarless gum to their patients who chew gum. Therefore, it would…

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Mark Zuckerberg is the new Moses

February 18, 2011
Mark Zuckerberg is the new Moses

Something I read at Global Risk Community got me thinking about Mark Zuckerberg. Boris Agranovich summarized the impact of social media on current events in this post “Social media triggers a revolution in the Arab World“: In the previous issue we warned about possible spreading the revolution in the Middle East region driven by Economic disparity  and global governance failures. For many years now, Tunisia, Egypt and other Arab countries have been stockpiling social, political and economic explosives and only a spark requires igniting a major unrest. Social media and especially services such as Blogs, Twitter and Facebook help people to organize effectively and…

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Facebook unfriend risk management

November 24, 2010

Have you ever wanted to delete a Facebook “friend” but worried about the risk of them finding out?  On the heels of last week’s ”Facebook Unfriend Day” – an idea from comedian Jimmy Kimmel – comes a blog post called THE PERILS OF FACEBOOK ETIQUETTE by Terry Levine of Noggin Advertising in Toronto. (Ironically, Terry had no idea about the Kimmel thing until I mentioned it to him at lunch today. I think he’s more of a Coco fan.) Terry illustrates the downstream effects of a recent Facebook unfriending event and how unfriending someone in the Social Media world can have…

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Fantasy football pool risk management

October 25, 2010

Risk Management Monitor addresses the concern about employees spending hours of company time researching and updating their fantasy football picks. Some argue that it’s disruptive – having fired employees or blocked access to certain websites from the company network – while others suggest it boosts morale. Riskczar believes that fantasy football is merely another workplace distraction. If people were not spending their workday on sports betting, they might be wasting time on Facebook or Twitter. And in places where those sites are banned, your employees may be reading the online version of the Wall Street Journal, shopping on Amazon or…

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Social media risk management

October 22, 2010

Are tools like Facebook, Twitter and texting destroying good old-fashioned face-to-face communication? Have we stopped having beers with our friends because of these social tools? Is there a risk that one day we will only communicate this way? My brother Terry Levine notes in his post A Failure to Communicate: “While it may be true most of us are seeing each other less, we’re probably in contact with each other more.” Although my brother and I do not talk on the phone or visit each other very often, we are effectively in contact with each other every day thanks Facebook. In a sense,…

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Risks of Social Media

October 4, 2010

Last month when Paris Hilton was busted with 0.8 grams of cocaine in her Chanel purse, she defended herself by saying she borrowed the bag from a friend and it wasn’t her coke either. Sadly, the poor little heiress posted a photo on Twitter of a remarkably identical Chanel purse in July with the caption: “”Love My New Chanel Purse I got Today.:)” Chris Matyszczyk from CNET writes: “We seem to be entering an era in which everything that we put online, however much we do it in order to inspire our fellow person, ends up being defined by just one…

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