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The Risks of Social Media — Now Available in Risk Management Magazine

Our campaign to provide in-depth coverage of the risks of social media started almost exactly one year ago.

I wrote a long, sweeping cover story on the issue, trying to highlight as many of the perils as possible. And while that provided a pretty good introduction to the topic for an audience that is, let’s just be nice and say, a little less familiar with social media than your average teenager, it was somewhat of a shallow exploration of a very serious threat.

Thus, we have used this here blog to continue the coverage ever since with our Risks of Social Media post series. This has allowed us to take different aspects of social media and break it down clearly with some real-world examples from the news.

Those more devoted readers among you, however, may have noticed that there has not been a lot of new posts in the series of late. Our apologies. But the good news is that this slow down has run parallel with an effort to cover the topic again, in a much more in-depth way, in our magazine, Risk Management.

So here, I present to you, our October cover story, “More Media, More Opportunity, More Risk”

It is a six-part examination of the legal liability, reputation damage, employee monitoring/pre-employment screening fallout and other risks associated with social media. You can also read about how IBM excels at handling social mediathe top 5 ways that insurance companies can use social media and 15 tips to help anyone manage social media risks.

I’m clearly biased, but I thought the whole thing turned out rather good — almost as good as the issue cover below that our designer Karen Arbasetti crafted. (If you liked this, feel free to subscribe to the print edition.)

Please let us know what you think in the comments below. And stay tuned to the blog for even more coverage in the future.

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