LinkedIn - to Whom Does the Information Belong?
In class, we discussed the widely known professional social network - LinkedIn. In this assignment the discussion is about whether an employee's (Sigal) LinkedIn profile can be considered intellectual property of his company rather than his own.
The company claims that the connections belong to the company, but I disagree. A person's LinkedIn profile belongs to her alone. It uses her email address and password and is updated by her.
If the company wanted its connections to belong to the company and not the employees, it should have those connections contact the company, and not Sigal. It is possible that the contacts connected with Sigal only because of the company she worked for - but in that case the company doesn't have to worry, because the connections won't want to keep their connection now that she's not in the company. The bottom line is that if human contacts are the company's main asset - the company should have a way to manage those contacts independently of its own manpower.
Tools - Which Tool Would I Find Useful?
The tool that caught my eye in class was Evernote. It reminds me of Pinterest a little, in the sense that one can save website articles by topic - but if Pinterest works primarily with photos, it seems that Evernote works well with articles or web-pages of any type. The next obvious advantage of Evernote it the ability to actually save the sites to one's desktop, including the ability to search through them - a feature that Pinterest doesn't offer.
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