Guidelines with teeth?

http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=24212

NLRB Report Reviews Social Media Enforcement Actions

September 1, 2011 by Dissent

Boris Segalis writes:

On August 18, 2011, the Associate General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) issued a report analyzing the Board’s recent social media enforcement actions. The report seeks to provide guidance to employers that want to ensure that their social media policies appropriately balance employee rights and company interests.

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[From the article:

According to the report, the NLRB may view as unlawful (often because the Board viewed them as overly broad) social media policies that:

• Prohibit employees from posting pictures of themselves in any media, including the Internet, which depict the company in any way, including posting featuring a company uniform or corporate logo;

• Prohibit employees from making disparaging comments when discussing the company or the employees' superiors, coworkers or competitors;

• Generally prohibit, in the application to social media, offensive conduct and rude or discourteous behavior;

• Prohibit inappropriate discussions about the company, management or coworkers;

• Prohibit any use of social media that may violate, compromise or disregard the rights and reasonable expectations as to privacy and confidentiality of any person or entity;

• Prohibit any communications or posts that constitute embarrassment, harassment or defamation of the employer or its employees, officers, board members, representatives or staff members;

• Prohibit statements that lack truthfulness or might damage the reputation or goodwill of the employer, its staff or employees;

• Prohibit employees on their own time from using social media to talk about company business, from posting anything that they would not want their manager or supervisor to see or that would put their job in jeopardy, from disclosing inappropriate or sensitive information about employer, or from posting any pictures or comments involving the company or its employees that could be construed as inappropriate;

• Prohibit employees from using the company name, address or other information on their personal profiles;

• Prohibit employees from revealing personal information regarding coworkers, company clients, partners or customers without their consent; or

• Prohibit the use of employer’s logos and photographs or of the employer’s store, brand or product without written authorization.

Perhaps the goal is to make “suspects” glow in the dark for easier tracking?

EPIC Uncovers: Mobile Scanners Not 'Certified People Scanners'

"The Electronic Privacy Information Center received more FOIA documents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security regarding mobile x-ray scanners (a.k.a. Z Backscatter Vans). We've discussed these devices before. Perhaps the most interesting part is slide #11 ('Disclaimer About Scanning People') on page 6 of this PDF explaining that the radiation output of these devices is too high to comply with ANSI N43.17. In other words, they output too much radiation even by TSA's questionable standards for airport body scanners. Regardless, the slide ends with the author stating that the ANSI standard 'is not applicable to covert operations.' What might that assertion have meant to the presentation's intended audience?"

What, you thought you blocked that site?

http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/textmirror-websites-to-text-online/

TextMirror: Convert Websites To Plain Text By Removing Their HTML Tags

TextMirror is a free to use web service that converts websites into plain text by removing all the webpage elements and HTML tags. All you have to do is enter the URL of the website you want converted; the conversion is all done on TextMirror’s own server so you never really need to access the site being converted.

In addition to using the site as a proxy for reading articles, you can use TextMirror to quickly view text on large webpages that are taking simply too long to load up.

www.textmirror.net

Similar tools: Readable, Magazinify, NotForest, Readmeo, TidyRead, Readability, Readable, and AllTextPaper.

An InfoGraphic of a dying method of communication?

http://www.makeuseof.com/tech-fun/history-email-growth/

The History Of Email & It’s Growth

Many of my students love WolframAlpha. A great supplement for Math classes.

Free Wolfram Alpha Webinars

Next week on September 7^th Wolfram Alpha is hosting a free webinar for teachers. The webinar will provide an overview of how to use Wolfram Alpha's computational search engine. Participants will also be introduced to using Wolfram Alpha to create custom widgets to enhance learning experiences. The webinar will be repeated on September 15. You can find the details on the webinars and register for them here.

Applications for Education

While Wolfram Alpha is a natural fit for mathematics lessons, the webinar announcement promises to offer something for every content area. From the view point of a social studies teacher one of the things I like about Wolfram Alpha is the quick "fact sheets" that my students can pull up. For example, if I want my students to quickly find some demographic and economic data about Libya they can simply type "Libya" into the search box to have that info right at their finger tips. This allows us to then spend more class time discussing and analyzing the significance of that data instead of searching for the data.