Workplace Policy and Social Media

As you can hear from the following CNN video, it all comes down to workplace policy.  Noah Kravitz kept his Twitter account when he left PhoneDog and just changed the name of the account and kept all the followers.  Were the followers his or his former job's?  Workplace policies would have prevented a lawsuit.  But when you listen to the video, Kravitz never really answers the question of whether or not there were policies in place.  He surely must have known when he changed the handle of his account that it was a type of stealing.  Wouldn't you agree?

Second Life - Internships

I attended a Second Life presentation on internships available to SLIS students at SJSU this past week.  The presentation put on by Profs. Franks and Lindberg was very informative about how to go about finding or creating your own internship whether it be in person or virtual.  We all gathered in Second Life the online virtual world where SLIS and VCARA have "property".  As usual the presentation had sound problems, but over all it was great to attend an event with others even if it was virtual.  Here's a snapshot of the event:

Fascinating avatars--someone was even a cat!