Friedman.pdf. A Dongle Joke That Spiraled Way Out Of Control. In an age of blogs, tweets, Hacker News, Reddit and Anonymous, an off-the-cuff joke can spin wildly out of control.
At least it appears that’s what happened with PyCon this week when a sexual joke led to some very public firings, a virulent debate about women in technology, another virulent debate about public shaming, and now, a DDOS attack. So here’s what happened: 1) While sitting in the 10th row of a Python programming conference, a developer who used to work for mobile monetization startup Playhaven apparently made a joke about “big” dongles and “forking someone’s repo.” 2) Adria Richards, a developer evangelist sitting in front of them, called them out on Twitter and in a blog post for making the conference environment unwelcoming toward women.
5 Noteworthy Examples of Corporate Social Media Policies. So your company wants to implement a social media policy, but you're not sure how to go about it.
How lenient should you be? Will being too strict diminish social media's effectiveness? Does marketing handle customer service? Should we even let customer service represent us on social media? Take a gander at these five companies and what they chose to do. Ford Social Media Guidelines. Online Database of Social Media Policies. FordSocialMedia.pdf (application/pdf Object)