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Re: Why Bans Don’t Work

Jake — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:35:13 -0000

Weird, maybe that has to do with obscuring the URL, if it's internal. I'm interested to hear the official story of why, would be educational.
Thanks, nice addition to the conversation.
Jake

Re: Why Bans Don’t Work

Fabio Seixas — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:19:42 -0000

The other day someone told me that their company bans tinyurl.com. Don't ask me why.

Re: Why Bans Don’t Work

Noons — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:56:52 -0000

Jake,

too right, mate. Top post!

Re: Why Bans Don’t Work

Jake — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:24:51 -0000

It's not just looking dumb anymore; it's costing companies. I don't think we can blame IT; they will always take the conservative approach, which is correct for IT. It's management's failure to take a forward-looking stance, rather than accepting the knee-jerk "ban everything" reaction.

Quoth The Dead Milkmen, "we gotta blow up those things we don't understand".

Jake

Re: Why Bans Don’t Work

Meg — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:04:50 -0000

I was recently surprised, listening to a someone in IT [for a very large corporation], who mentioned that their big employee initiative was to add support for IM.

This was not a long time ago, this was less then a year ago, and I found myself horrified that they consider this new.

I am hopeful that IT is learning its lesson and, as you say, realizing that controlling progress by creating bans will not work and will ultimately make them look dumb.