Comments on: Who’s in Charge of Social Network Information? http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/05/12/whos-in-charge-of-social-network-information/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:29:35 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: walker http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/05/12/whos-in-charge-of-social-network-information/comment-page-1/#comment-224463 walker Thu, 14 May 2009 13:48:33 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/?p=2564#comment-224463 Interesting post... When it comes to Social Networking activity, seems these technologies do contain a recoverable thread. When I go to my Facebook page, I see my activity. On Twitter, I can record my posts. Now, the time line on how long these social networks store this is the bigger question, and one that you pose well. Interesting post… When it comes to Social Networking activity, seems these technologies do contain a recoverable thread. When I go to my Facebook page, I see my activity. On Twitter, I can record my posts. Now, the time line on how long these social networks store this is the bigger question, and one that you pose well.

]]> By: Matt Morgan http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/05/12/whos-in-charge-of-social-network-information/comment-page-1/#comment-224371 Matt Morgan Wed, 13 May 2009 20:55:28 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/?p=2564#comment-224371 This is precisely the issue confounding the US government right now. The Department of Defense is losing it's collective mind over "official" communication in Social Media viewed against it's legal obligation to archive data. How do you do that when you don't own the medium being used to communicate? This is compounded by the terms of use agreements on the various sites, where the only remedy is a separately negotiated TOU for each and every tool... [impossible in the long run.] So it's not the scale that's in question. The warehouse inventory model doesn't apply because the model has changed. If you use someone else's warehouse, they own the data and detemine for themselves if it's worth storing, finding, destroying, sharing, etc. And in the case of the USG (and many federally regulated businesses) it just doesn't appear to be legal to allow others to manage your official communications that are otherwise subject to discovery. This is precisely the issue confounding the US government right now. The Department of Defense is losing it's collective mind over "official" communication in Social Media viewed against it's legal obligation to archive data. How do you do that when you don't own the medium being used to communicate? This is compounded by the terms of use agreements on the various sites, where the only remedy is a separately negotiated TOU for each and every tool… [impossible in the long run.]

So it's not the scale that's in question. The warehouse inventory model doesn't apply because the model has changed. If you use someone else's warehouse, they own the data and detemine for themselves if it's worth storing, finding, destroying, sharing, etc. And in the case of the USG (and many federally regulated businesses) it just doesn't appear to be legal to allow others to manage your official communications that are otherwise subject to discovery.

]]> By: Dan Keldsen http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/05/12/whos-in-charge-of-social-network-information/comment-page-1/#comment-224351 Dan Keldsen Wed, 13 May 2009 18:34:43 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/?p=2564#comment-224351 Exactly - let's bump e-mail management up a notch to content management, or information management, or just plain business management. Think of it all as warehouse inventory. Either it's worth something, or it's not - what is your process for storing, finding, destroying, sharing, etc.? Apply to all content types, and you're golden. It's the scale of e-mail (or IM, twitter, etc.) that throws people off into thinking it's something new. Exactly – let's bump e-mail management up a notch to content management, or information management, or just plain business management.

Think of it all as warehouse inventory. Either it's worth something, or it's not – what is your process for storing, finding, destroying, sharing, etc.? Apply to all content types, and you're golden.

It's the scale of e-mail (or IM, twitter, etc.) that throws people off into thinking it's something new.

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