I recently spoke to a senior agency boss who relayed an educational story regarding her IT department.
The head of IT had come to her in a panic because he had noticed one department in the agency was spending an inordinate amount of time on Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, et al. He was concerned people were abusing company time for nefarious, non-work-related purposes.
On investigation, the agency boss discovered the department in question was responsible for planning clients' social networking activity, so it ...