Watch those digital footprints
Wherever you travel on the Internet, you are leaving everlasting footprints. They may be less evident than the physical footprints your Birkenstock shoes might leave, but they are much more persistent as many politicians are now finding out. As Mark Evans asks, Is Anything Off the Record?
The strange part is a lot of people don’t really get this digital deal. They don’t understand that every time you reveal something about yourself, you’re peeling back the onion in a very public way that never disappears.
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In a survey, CareerBuilder.com found that 20% of employees look at Facebook and MySpace when looking to hire someone, while another 9% said they will start looking at social networking profiles in the future.
There are clearly pluses and minuses to this. Nevertheless society as a whole gains when there is a greater degree of openness. This makes corporate governance an even more important topic, than ever it was before.
Related: Michael Geist has a good piece on this issue entitled, Coming To Grips With An Internet That Never Forgets
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