damianherrington, Author at TechRepublic

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Damian Herrington is an associate at law firm DLA Piper's UK intellectual property and technology practice.

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The use or misuse of social media by staff creates a series of challenges for employers in monitoring their activities. Photo: Shutterstock

Social enterprise

Ways to protect your brand from social media risks

Many businesses now get social media and can see the benefits, but they also need to have a handle on the risks and have ways of dealing with them.

Social enterprise

Social media: From monitoring staff to fake pages – five tips to protect brands

Many businesses now get social media and can see the benefits. But they also need to have a handle on the risks and have ways of dealing with them.

Networking

ICANN and gTLDs: Six steps you should take to protect your brand

Companies need to check whether any of the new generic top-level domains are confusingly similar to their own brands - and where that's the case, they need to know what action to take.

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