UK TRAINING company Videotel has a new programme, Social Media at Sea, to educate seafarers warn of the use and abuse of social media and the dangers of inappropriate postings, reports London's Tanker Operator.
Since shipboard Internet access is common, seafarers must be aware of dangers to a company's reputation and risk of damage to personal relations among those who live at close quarters for weeks at a time, said the company.
Videotel CEO Nigel Cleave said social media is powerful, " but such powerful tools need to be handled responsibly," he said.
The video shows the shipboard life is no longer the private affair it has been since the days of sail, but its intimacies are potentially availble through smart phones and social media to the world.
The Videotel production shows the ship crashing through the waves in high seas with the beer-swilling crew below listening to one of their number dancing while giving a karoake performance.
Cut to one crewman posting his smartphone footage to a social media site via his laptop. Then cut to newspaper front page photo with our dancing fool under a headline saying: "Is this responsibility at sea?!"
We are then taken to our sacked seafarer wandering forlornly on a beach in the south of England, soon to be pursued by a female journalist, who explains the perils of social media.
In one case, she said a crewman ranted libelously against an officer, saying he was incompetent and had imperilled the ship before posting this on social media, which resulted in a loss of contract for the company.
In another case, an otherwise harmless photo of a group of seamen on deck caused bureaucraftic rockets to ricochet around the fleet when it was noted by higher ups that one crewman was smoking under a no smoking sign.
Said Mr Cleave: "The objective is to make them aware of the pitfalls associated with the publishing of text, pictures and video clips and to provide the tools to ensure accurate, respectful and responsible posting."
WORLD SHIPPING
29 July 2014 - 18:40
Videotel warns of perils of shipboard smart phones and social media
UK TRAINING company Videotel has a new programme, Social Media at Sea, to educate seafarers warn of the use and abuse of social media and the dangers of inappropriate postings, reports London's Tanker Operator.
WORLD SHIPPING
29 July 2014 - 18:40
Videotel warns of perils of shipboard smart phones and social media
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