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ANALYSIS

Social networking in the enterprise has implications beyond the trade-off between happiness and distraction in the workforce.

Hard to control and difficult to characterise, it represents a unique vector into the heart of organisations that must be understood to be made safe.

When policy-based contextual security vendor Clearswift surveyed global attitudes towards social media within the enterprise last year, it revealed that 19 percent of companies routinely blocked access to social-networking sites and 48 percent of managers considered social media usage as being of concern.

In the UK, the exact same proportion (48 percent) of enterprises thought that the benefits of social networking outweighed the potential security risks.

This social/anti-social dilemma is set to continue alongside the consumerisation of workplace IT, with Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) being the buzzword of the day. One of the biggest problems is the security disconnect between management and employees; 50 percent of managers believe that staff are oblivious to the security concerns of social networking, but only 21 percent of employees admit they don't think about social media security issues at all. So where does the truth actually sit?

Education is key: management needs perspective on the real risks of social media use within the enterprise, while employees need to ensure that those risks are understood and controlled by acceptable behaviour.

In fact, the risks of staff engagement with social media are little different to those of using the cloud or even, when it comes down to it, CRM tools. Access, Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and compliance will apply to most enterprise situations for all of them.

If you consider security as the driver, regardless of the platform, and apply the same basic best-practice principles of data protection to social network usage as you would anything else, then you and your business should be OK. Apart from, quite possibly, the regulatory compliance angle. This will depend upon your industry sector, but posting to Facebook could easily fall into non-compliance territory if sensitive corporate data is exposed to the public internet in this manner.

Blanket bans are rarely a good idea, and in the case of access to social media at work could prove to be disastrous from a productivity angle report after report reveals employee demotivation when access to social networks is removed.

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By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) - The youngest speller in National Spelling Bee history said Thursday that she knew the word she misspelled during the competition, but she was too tired, bored and stressed out to concentrate when she stepped to the microphone.

Six-year-old Lori Anne Madison of Lake Ridge, Va., fell four points short of making the semifinals at the 85th Scripps National Spelling Bee. If she had spelled "ingluvies" correctly during Wednesday's preliminary rounds - she began the word with an "e'' - and gotten one more word correct on a computer test, she would have achieved a qualifying score.

"I was really disappointed that I misspelled the word. I knew the word," Lori Anne said Thursday. "It was just too bad that I misspelled the word."

Admittedly overwhelmed by the media attention, the home-schooled prodigy held court with reporters for 25 minutes Thursday morning. Although she wasn't always forthcoming with her answers, making clear she'd rather be outside playing with her friends. Her blue eyes lit up when talking about her experience at a barbecue on Monday.

"I blew some absolutely huge bubbles, like this big!" she said, holding her hands a foot apart and reminding everyone of her age.

Waiting for her turn to spell wasn't so much fun. She hadn't gotten enough sleep and came close to nodding off, and the hour-and-a-half wait "seemed like two millennia," she said.

"I was just stressed. It was a really, really long wait," Lori Anne said. "Overall, it was just boring. Really boring! Really boring!"

She did enjoy interacting with the other spellers - many of whom are more than twice her age and twice her size - and she gets a thrill out of hearing a word she knows and spelling it correctly. She pledged to return next year.

"I just love spelling, so I'm really excited to go to next year's bee - if I go, which is probably going to be a yes," she said.

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6-year old Lori Anne C. Madison of Woodbridge, Virginia, after the second round of the 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee competition May 30, 2012 in National Harbor, Maryland. 278 spellers are competing in the 85th annual competition. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

BOSTON (CBS) Theyre finishing up the annual national spelling bee today, and if youve never sat down and watched the thing with a kid you care about, I strongly recommend it.

The kids are so smart, so poised, and its a rare example of intellectual excellence being given the star treatment and exposure normally reserved for athletic competition.

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But the spelling bee also raises a question do we care about spelling as much as we used to, or as much as we should?

An article in yesterdays USA Today points out that proper spelling does still appear to matter in some quarters.

They quote one expert saying that when a paper or an application or a report or even an e-mail contains spelling errors, people who read it judge it harshly, and cite research showing that job applicants who submit resumes or applications with misspellings are statistically less likely to advance.

And it seems thats increasingly the rule, not the exception.

The experts say many schools no longer bother with spelling instruction, a 15-year trend linked with declining reading scores.

Even the detail-oriented Romney campaign has faltered in this way, putting out a press release this week that spelled America A-m-e-r-c-i-a.

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