Comments on: Firewall Jail http://www.swduncan.com/archives/2008/12/05/firewall-jail/ Answers, Alternatives, Strategies Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:08:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jim Durbin http://www.swduncan.com/archives/2008/12/05/firewall-jail/comment-page-1/#comment-4882 Jim Durbin Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:07:11 +0000 http://swduncan.com/?p=402#comment-4882 It gets worse - many companies are even blocking RSS at the firewall, and refusing access to blogspot, wordpress, or typepad. There are always workaround - cli.gs, urlpass, and the like, but it doesn't help you if the tinyurl comes from someone else, of course. Using these sites or not using them has consequences. A company that blocks LinkedIn is one where if you can find an employee, they know they're not being monitored by corporate. Recruiting Nirvana. The best part is companies still don't have social media policies in place. They have dress codes, they have internet use policies, but they don't spell out what you can and can't do. It gets worse – many companies are even blocking RSS at the firewall, and refusing access to blogspot, wordpress, or typepad.

There are always workaround – cli.gs, urlpass, and the like, but it doesn’t help you if the tinyurl comes from someone else, of course.

Using these sites or not using them has consequences. A company that blocks LinkedIn is one where if you can find an employee, they know they’re not being monitored by corporate. Recruiting Nirvana.

The best part is companies still don’t have social media policies in place. They have dress codes, they have internet use policies, but they don’t spell out what you can and can’t do.

]]> By: Joe Webb http://www.swduncan.com/archives/2008/12/05/firewall-jail/comment-page-1/#comment-2240 Joe Webb Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:39:19 +0000 http://swduncan.com/?p=402#comment-2240 The blocking that you describe is not new. It's been going on a while as small businesses and individual entrepreneurs have access to more cutting edge technology today than their corporate brethren. iPhone is going through the same thing. Supposedly it can't be used for "big business" but almost everyone I know who is on the small business side has a great preference and dependence on it. There have been many times over the years where I could not even send .zip files to executives, or send them things over yousendit.com. They always ended up giving me their personal e-mail address. Skype is another product that is a true marvel, yet corp IT generally hates it. It's an incredible era in personal technology, and corp IT's reputation for stonewalling or being bureaucratic is finding new depths in many companies. The blocking that you describe is not new. It’s been going on a while as small businesses and individual entrepreneurs have access to more cutting edge technology today than their corporate brethren. iPhone is going through the same thing. Supposedly it can’t be used for “big business” but almost everyone I know who is on the small business side has a great preference and dependence on it. There have been many times over the years where I could not even send .zip files to executives, or send them things over yousendit.com. They always ended up giving me their personal e-mail address. Skype is another product that is a true marvel, yet corp IT generally hates it. It’s an incredible era in personal technology, and corp IT’s reputation for stonewalling or being bureaucratic is finding new depths in many companies.

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