In an earlier post Mark Funk presented some findings from the survey done by the Task Force on Social Networking Software. The task force found that many librarians are having access to various social networking web sites and applications blocked by their IT departments.

Mark asked for some success stories on getting these sites unblocked, but didn't receive any. He is asking again for you to send not only success stories, but failure stories as well. The information will be used for an article he working on. He hopes to publish in a magazine that's read by organization leaders. In it, he wants to include examples or techniques that made the powers that be unblock sites. He would also like to include horror stories of necessary access that was denied, that will also help. Please share.

I know we all have the horror stories and there are probably some of us out there who have great success stories. So, send them to Mark, we can all benefit from reading about the good, the bad and the ugly of social applications and IT departments.

Remember please emails these to Mark. While I am interested in them, I am not writing the article, he is.