In the first of a new series focusing on business issues, Karen Walker, director of the Children's Place, explains how her nursery group is striving to maintain confidentiality.
When is it acceptable to socially network with friends, and when does it become a problem for work?
We have many staff who like to talk via their social networking sites. Not a problem, you might think - sharing plans for holidays, photos from a good night out, photos from a day trip with work ... but now maybe that is a problem?
We see increasing numbers of staff who use their social networking site without understanding the implications of sharing too much information. How appropriate is it to add parents, whose children attend the nursery you work at, as friends to your site? If those parents ultimately have a complaint or there is an incident at nursery, how much of the information on your site might they wish to use if they feel they have to take the issue further?
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