Is your Social life a Caricature of your Real Life, or a Mirror Image?

April is Digital IBMer Awareness month at IBM and, while this is an internal initiative, I felt its equally important to share some best practices with my social communities on what it means to live our values in the digital world.

One of my favorite things about IBM is it trusts it's employees to do the right thing but to take personal responsibility. We don't have social media policies per se. The spirit of the guidelines is to live by our values online the way we do offline. As a senior executive at a reputed global company (and a self respecting individual), it is my responsibility to conduct myself appropriately at all times, in all settings. To engage in smart yet secure social practices, preserve trust, protect IP and excerise good judgement. Sounds reasonable, right?