Friday Faux Pas Archive

Friday Faux Pas: Teacher Loses Tenure Over Facebook Postings

Posted on May 27th, 2011 by Admin

Editor’s Note:This is part of an occasional series called Friday Faux Pas, which highlights missteps in social media by health-related organizations and/or their employees.  In this specific case we felt it was important to highlight the following story even though it doesn’t involve a health-related organization. We believe social media are overwhelmingly a force for good, [...]

Friday Faux Pas: Physician Fired For Facebook Posting

Posted on April 23rd, 2011 by Admin

Editor’s Note: This is part of an occasional series called Friday Faux Pas, which highlights missteps in social media by health-related organizations. We believe social media are overwhelmingly a force for good, but we’re not blind to potential problems. This series helps maintain the balance, and in looking at each faux pas we want to [...]

Social Media: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

Posted on April 7th, 2011 by Admin

An article in today’s New York Times isn’t about health care, but it does highlight the importance of organizations having policies related to employee use of social media, as well as strong training programs. The article – “Police Lesson: Social Network Tools Have 2 Edges” – leads with a story that could well fit into [...]

Another Reason Why Not To Tweet While Driving

Posted on March 11th, 2011 by Admin

Blue language turned into a pink slip when a social media representative of Chrylser Corporation shared his thoughts on traffic via a tweet.   Click here to read the story.

Friday Faux Pas: “Rogue” Tweet via HootSuite

Posted on February 18th, 2011 by Admin

Editor’s Note: This is part of an occasional series called Friday Faux Pas, which highlights missteps in social media by health-related organizations. We believe social media are overwhelmingly a force for good, but we’re not blind to potential problems. This series helps maintain the balance, and in looking at each faux pas we want to [...]

Friday Faux Pas: Nurse posts OR pics to Facebook

Posted on August 27th, 2010 by Admin

As reported on e-Health Insider in January: A nurse has been suspended following reports that she took photos of patients having operations and posted them on a social networking site. The member of staff from Southern General Hospital in Glasgow allegedly secretly took the pictures without other members of staff knowing and posted them on [...]

Friday Faux Pas

Posted on August 13th, 2010 by Admin

Fear is a major barrier to adoption of social media. That’s especially true within health care. Among the common objections to openness: “What if someone criticizes us on our blog?” “What if an employee posts inappropriate material on Facebook?” “What if our employees spend all their time on Facebook and YouTube, instead of doing their [...]

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