The CBC Blogging Manifesto is not unlike a skeleton corporate policy about blogging by employees. Even in this succinct original form, it would be an interesting advisory or discussion piece for your intranet Security Zone.

Social networking has become extremely popular of late and is getting lots of coverage on new and traditional news media. Given the fact that a great deal of network/Internet use and applications have traditionally been social in nature, this is hardly surprising: what is more surprising is that the media and technology pundits seem to feel that we need to have a special term for it. Like most Internet and IT developments, it’s more evolution than revolution, and in fact more hype than substance in many cases. Businesses are making use of interactive social media for corporate (primarily marketing) purposes. While these applications are, at the moment, more projected than proven, it is undeniable that many enterprises are either openly examining social networking and so-called Web 2.0 technologies, or are facing covert use of these systems and technologies by rogue employees. Either way, employees need to find out about the concerns and security dangers related to such use before lan...

Some Nigerian thinks I was born yesterday: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:12:44 +0200 (CEST) From :The Honourable Officeof the Finance Minister.(FMF)In collabration with (CBN)Office.ATT : Honourable Contr(FMF/CBN) Payment Notification Update. In order to eradicate the fraudulent rampant extortion of money from contractors as transfer charges and taxes by non-exiting individuals and corrupt Government officials.I am obliged to reach you concerning the immediate payment of your fund by ATM Visa Card. Be- informed that this communication superside any other you must have had with any office in connection with your payment. Investgations reveal that you have paid some good money in the past as transfer charges and taxes which did not reflect in the bank treasury, that means officials concern have help themselves to the money at your own detriment. Now that your file has scaled their huddle and your file is on my table.I want ...