Re: C-level execs ignorant of Web 2.0 dangers

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

Date sent:              Thu, 28 May 2009 07:05:49 +0100
From:                   Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com>

> I've been informed, very off the record, that large companies that  
> block Facebook at work have serious employee retention and acquisition  
> problems directly because of it.  I'm dead serious.

An intriguing risk management problem: which is the greater danger, or is there 
any way to address both issues at once?

I've just spent the day at an electronics trade show.  One of the seminars was in a 
room overlooking a highway.  On the other side of the highway is a steep bluff.  
Heavy equipment was digging into it, removing all the vegetation cover, and 
making it steeper.  I assume that this was a project which was going to be 
completed with the construction of a fairly massive retaining wall, but it looked to 
be a fascinating gamble: would you get the wall finished before the hillside 
collapsed?  (Well, fascinating for me: I didn't have one of the houses at the top of 
the bluff.)

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