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Facebook: It is so Rewarding

25 July, 2013 by James Lawther 7 Comments

Bored at Work

We work in large organisations that ban access to social media. We have long-winded IT policies that forbid our employees from tweeting, liking, stumbling or commenting. After all we are paying these people to work, not to surf the internet catching up with their friends. But is our logic sound?  Should we isolate our employees […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: communication, Facebook, information technology, innovation, social media, Twitter

Your Memories are Being Frozen

16 March, 2013 by James Lawther 14 Comments

Memory

Facebook is freezing me out; they are putting me (and probably you) on ice. You see Facebook has a problem, too many faces.  Facebook users upload 300 million new photographs every day.  Facebook is home for billions of images. All those images need storing somewhere so Facebook runs thousands of servers and those servers need a […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: cost saving, Facebook, information technology, pareto principle

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