Checkpoint IT/205
How does e-mail benefit an organization? Why might an organization want to limit how an employee uses e-mail during work hours? What is an e-mail’s path once it leaves an organization?

E-mail communication can offer an organization a number of benefits. For one thing, communication between clients and employees becomes much easier, clearer , and faster. E-mails are a very effective organizational communication tool, but it has some disadvantages as well. For example, many employees would use their e-mail for personal instead of business use. Ultimately this decreases productivity and makes the company pass on higher prices to its customers. Another disadvantage of using personal e-mail at work is that a company must retain all of its e-mail correspondence for a certain period of time or pay heavy fines. If these e-mails are necessary in a lawsuit, it is important that they are available to the company. If a lawsuit should occur, it does not matter if a personal account or a work account sent the email – they are both the same thing as far as the court is concerned. No matter the nature of the email, ultimately the company will be held responsible for its contents

What is the effect of instant messaging on organizational networks? What are benefits and drawbacks of using instant messaging in an organization?
I see the effect of instant messaging being very useful tool for an organization. It allows a message to be sent immediately throughout an organization. This would also need to be monitored to prevent personal use during work hours.

What are benefits and drawbacks of web page and search engine use in an organization?
A benefit that I see with instant messaging is that a message can be sent immediately to some one. The draw backs are that it can have a slow delay with sending or receiving due to server or network overload.

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