Keeping a Closer Eye on Employees’ Social Networking

From Joshua Brustein in the New York Times blog Bits:

A service released earlier this week by Teneros, an online communication services company, makes it much easier for companies to keep tabs on their employees’ social networking activities.

The software, called Social Sentry, will automatically monitor Facebook and Twitteraccounts for between $2 and $8 an employee, depending on the size of the company and the level of activity being monitored.

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Social Sentry draws only on publicly posted information on Facebook and Twitter; the company plans to add YouTube, MySpace and LinkedIn by this summer. The company is marketing the product as a way to watch for the release of confidential or embarrassing information and to measure how much time employees are spending on social media during work hours.

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