Do You Have a Social Media Policy?

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Jun 08

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Probably not. Most individuals don’t really need one but when you start hiring others to engage with the public – or just have others representing your brand – it is important to have a well understood policy on how social media is to be used. Here are just a few links to social media policies online you can use to gather information about how to write your own or to make sure the one written for you is up to snuff:

AMA (American Medical Association) - http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/meeting/professionalism-social-media.shtml

Australian Department of Justice - http://www.justice.vic.gov.au/socialmedia

Ball State University - http://cms.bsu.edu/About/AdministrativeOffices/UMC/WhatWeDo/Web/WebPolicies/~/media/DepartmentalContent/UMC/pdfs/BallState_SocialMediaPolicy.ashx

Cleveland Clinic - http://my.clevelandclinic.org/about-cleveland-clinic/about-this-website/social-media-policy.aspx

Cuyahoga County Ohio - http://www.cuyahogacounty.us/en-US/social-media-policy.aspx

Coca-Cola - http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/socialmedia/

Colorado State University - http://policies.colostate.edu/PolicySearch.aspx?xGplID=b0CcWpfFiHs=

IBM - http://www.ibm.com/blogs/zz/en/guidelines.html

Intel - http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/legal/intel-social-media-guidelines.html

United States Department of the Interior - http://www.doi.gov/notices/Social-Media-Policy.cfm

United States General Services Administration - http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/281649

 

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  • http://www.inclinedesign.info CASUDI

    Thank you so much for posting this very useful list. People ask me all the time for examples of Social media policy.

  • http://nickkellet.com/ Nick Kellet

    This is a great resource. So much so I made it into a crowd sourced list.

    http://list.ly/list/1J1-social-media-policy-templates?feature=search

    You can embed to replace the list in your post. And then the crowd can extend. 

    • http://thekencook.com/ Ken Cook

      Done. Thanks Nick. When can you join me as our guest on Social Media Edge Radio?

      • http://nickkellet.com/ Nick Kellet

        I’d love to, thanks. Email me nick at nick kellet doc com. Suggest some time slots. Looking forward to it. 

        PS I added Canada Post policy. This is recommended to me a few weeks ago, so it stuck in the my head why I saw your post.