A couple of weeks ago I was fortunate to participate in the Thought Leadership Institute's Corporate Sourcing Leadership Conference. As with any discussion around sourcing today, we talked about Social Media sites/Web 2.0 tools as it relates to sourcing top talent.

For larger companies, regulating access to these sites has become a big issue and debate.

• Should we allow access to employees?
• If we don't, will that negatively impact our brand identity and how the public perceives our organization?
• If we deny access, does that really stop them from accessing these sites via their mobile computing devices?
• If we do provide access, will workforce productivity go down?

From our discussion, even the early adopters of these technologies for recruitment purposes have not completely figured this out.

With that said, there are some companies that have developed policies/guidelines for social media usage.

If you are in the midst of figuring out your position on this subject, you might want to check out the links below to assist you in your efforts.

As you can imagine - technical companies like Intel and IBM are leading the way with respect to usage of new technologies!

http://www.intel.com/sites/sitewide/en_US/social-media.htm

http://www.ibm.com/blogs/zz/en/guidelines.html

http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=Resources.BloggingPolicy

Have a great Holiday!