Oprah next on Facebook Live
September 8, 2011 by admin
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Oprah next on Facebook Live
Harpo Productions
Facebook Live has already had an A-list roster of guests, including President Obama, former President George W. Bush, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, actors Vin Diesel and Rainn Wilson, singer Katy Perry and Microsoft’s Bill Gates.
But Facebook’s own online TV show may hit new heights Thursday when Oprah Winfrey, the former Queen of Daytime TV, comes to the Palo Alto social networking company’s headquarters for a live one-hour chat with chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.
Click HERE to go directly to the site. They’re still looking for questions from the social media audience.
Still, it’s Oprah who might stand to gain from her exposure to Facebook’s audience of 750 million active users worldwide. The TV star and media mogul’s “The Oprah Winfrey Show” ended its long and successful run in May, but ratings for her Oprah Winfrey Network, launched earlier this year, have not taken off.
And while Winfrey has 6.3 million fans to her Facebook page, the Oprah Winfrey Network could use a boost because it only has 866,000 fans.
Winfrey’s appearance on Facebook Live coincides with a private meeting between her and other Silicon Valley leaders at Sandberg’s home. The New York Post has reported that Oprah is seeking some wisdom to help boost traffic to her website, Oprah.com. Traffic has dropped since the show ended.
Jeff Weiner, CEO of the professional social network LinkedIn, is one of the invited guests. Reportedly, so is Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, and Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt.
Also we’re told that the meeting will include executives from Harpo, Winfrey’s TV production company, along with Susan Casey, editor-in-chief of “O, The Oprah Magazine,” which is published by The Chronicle’s owner Hearst Corp. Winfrey’s best friend Gayle King, an editor-at-large at the magazine, is also on the list.
| September 07 2011 at 02:00 PM
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Judge Forces Employer To Rehire Workers Who Vented On Facebook
September 8, 2011 by admin
Filed under Choosing Lingerie
The modern workplace presents new legal problems
After a group of New Yorkers took to Facebook to complain about the non-profit they all worked for, the non-profit took action to rectify the situation — by firing the five discontent employees. They took their case to the National Labor Relations Board, and now a NLRB judge has ruled that National Hispanics of Buffalo has to hire the Facebook venters back along with back-pay.
Employers, take note. The NLRB has recently been outspoken about when employers can and can’t retaliate against employees over their perceived social media misbehavior. Private employers have to respect workers’ right to “protected concerted activity” — in other words, the right to talk among themselves about horrible working conditions — per the National Labor Relations Act. In the case of the New York non-profiteers, administrative law judge Arnold Amchan ruled that after-hours Facebook wall complaints about being over-worked constituted legitimate “concerted activity.”
After Mariana Cole-Rivera posted a status update about a co-worker who accused her of not doing enough for her impoverished clients, other co-workers chimed in to make comments such as, “What the f… Try doing my job. I have 5 programs,” “Tell her to come do [my] f***ing job n c if I don’t do enough, this is just dum,” and “I think we should give our paychecks to our clients so they can ‘pay’ the rent…(insert sarcasm here now).”
The defamed co-worker saw the messages (doh!) and passed them along to a supervisor. In firing the vocal Facebook users, the supervisor cited the company social media policy’s ban on cyber harassment of co-workers. This all took place in October 2010, and the non-profit has not since replaced the workers, instead distributing their tasks to others.
The judge decided that the heated Facebook conversation did not constitute harassment and that the non-profit erred in de-friending the workers. “Employees have a protected right to discuss matters affecting their employment amongst themselves,” wrote Judge Amchan in his decision [pdf], which orders the non-profit to rehire all five workers and make them “whole for any loss of earnings” suffered. As Inc. notes, this is the first NLRB case regarding social media use that doesn’t involve union workers.
Employees, while taking note of the fact that you do have a bit of protection from workplace firings over after-hours Facebooking, do also take note of the fact that this situation might have been avoided if these five had simply not friended the co-worker they didn’t like, and had their privacy settings such that she couldn’t see what they had written.
Related: When You Can and Can’t Fire Employees For Social Media Misbehavior
