Originally posted by Quartermaster James I think you hold a very optimistic view of what it is like to be an employee of a large multinational corporation.
This. I work for a large, multi-state corporation, the fourth-largest company in our industry in the US. My job is NOT social media. I hardly ever visit online venues where our business might be discussed by our customers and users of our product. I do, often, visit forums, message boards, blogs and so forth that deal with my own personal interests. Like this one.
I'd guess if there are Ricoh/Pentax employees (whose job isn't social media) visiting message boards, they're looking at stuff they like, like deep-sea fishing or hand-rearing rare walking-stick bugs or something.