Facebook Posts and Free Speech

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has declared that Facebook posts are legally protected speech and that terminating an employee based on their comments and status posts regarding working conditions is unlawful.

However, think twice before airing your workplace greivances. According to the NLRB's Facebook page:

"When do Facebook comments lose protected concerted activity status under the National Labor Relations Act? A four point test applies: (1) the place of the discussion; (2) the subject matter of the discussion; (3) the nature of the employee’s outburst; and (4) whether the outburst was, in any way, provoked by an employer’s unfair labor practice."

Many employers today will search multiple forms of social media for an employee's profile to gain a better understanding of the person they intend to hire. So, although it may be legal, it's not always smart.

Read the full New York Times article...

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Revolutionary Email Based Reminder System :: Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing is one of my favorite blogs. They always have great technology to check out. Here's a link to John Jantsch's review of Nudgemail - I'm definitely going to check it out. Revolutionary Email Based Reminder System :: Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing

Philadelphia Accounting Firm Citrin Cooperman Holds Wine Tasting Event

Posted by Katie Noonan

Below are photos from Citrin Cooperman's recent wine tasting event in Philadelphia. The event included many of Philadelphia's movers and shakers including football legend Vince Papale.

Laura Stegossi, Gina Rubel, Michael Zyborowicz, Sara Canuso and Pari Hashemi

Vince Papale, Gina Rubel, Roger Braunfeld and Mark Carrow

Social Media Makes It Hard For Americans To Forget To Vote

Posted by Amanda Walsh


Without crossing the line of addressing politics, I wanted to highlight one Election Day Web 2.0 change that caught my attention today on Facebook.


This morning on the landing page, at the top of my news feed, a box appeared that read, “Today is Election Day.” This box featured a running counter of all Facebook users who had clicked "I voted" including a personalized running tally of my Facebook friends who had gone to the polls today.


Wow, what a nice reminder to voters. To make things more convenient, the Election Day box also had an embedded link for users to find out where the closest polling booth is in their neighborhood.


I checked out the headlines on CNN.com where I found this article, No dearth of U.S. voter resources online by Mark Milian. Milian reports on the Facebook reminder box and Politics Page, that is visible to even non-Facebook users (there are still some of you out there). The article continues and highlights Google's Election Center, which among other things, offers an Elections application that allows users "to search for election information by entering their home address."


With Election Day reminders all over social media platforms this year, as Milian notes, it will be unbelievable for many Web-surfing Americans to try the old "I forgot to vote" excuse!