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CW500: Dave Britton Met Office - Social media 'When it Matters'

CW500: Dave Britton Met Office - Social media 'When it Matters'

Date: May 01, 2012

IT leaders need suitable strategies and governance to exploit social media technology to improve productivity and collaboration, to set the boundaries between flexibility and corporate data security, and also to measure results.

In this CW500 video, Dave Britton, chief press officer at Met Office talks to Computer Weekly editor in chief Bryan Glick about the social media project that won Computer Weekly’s Best Use of Social Media award in 2011.

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