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In some regulated industries, this might well be illegal.

Consider e.g. someone hosting a "private" network for
whitehouse.gov, or wamu.com, and what regulations the
ensuing messages are under.

Ed

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Valdis Krebs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Interesting...
>>
>> Anyone in a company can be the first to start a Yammer network for free
>> and answer the question "What are you working on?" They just need a valid
>> company email address and then begin inviting others from the enterprise to
>> join the network. They say this means that "Yammer can spread virally
>> through a company like a consumer social network." For some company
>> cultures, this may represent lack of control over internal communications
>> and be seen as a threat if it is not initiated from the top-down. Yammer
>> would likely be a hard sell to be endorsed by management in those types of
>> enterprises.
>>
>> There is no need for an enterprise-wide IT software installation as the
>> service is hosted by Yammer.
>>
>
> Will I/T staff attack this social virus in some organizations?
>
> Valdis
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