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Journalism in the Age of Data. Audioboo. Social Media Strategy Advice for Charities from Justgiving. Photo sharing for charities. Social Media Planning Guide. Real Time Search - Social Mention. 8 Essential Free Social Media Monitoring Tools. Social Media News and Web Tips – Mashable – The Social Media Guide. Social media staff guidelines. There is a lot of discussion about social media policies, especially in government. People want documents to set out how staff can and should use social networks and other websites to engage with citizens and groups, and what the protocol should be when staff comment on blogs or forums in an ‘official’ capacity.

The obvious starting point for this stuff is the online participation guidance for civil servants. These are the high level pointers that Tom Watson requested be developed when he was Minister for Digital Engagement. These guidelines should, I think, form the basis of any social media policy. Most organisations will, I think, probably want to refine them a bit, however. In a recent bit of work I have been doing for a client, I wrote up an online participation policy for a specific campaign. This basically listed the standard guidelines, but on top I added three scenarios and what the approach should be to contributing in online discussion spaces: A huge list of social media and blogging guidelines « Webyogi's blog. There are many social media and blogging guidelines online. While researching I found myself searching back and forth between sites.

On this post I have put the most impressive links in one place for reference and hopefully not to re-invent that wheel. I’m a bit obsessed with social media guidelines having recently come back from the inspirational, amazing, early morning soiree that was Localgovcamp. I am still buzzing with excitement about what’s happening in the world of local authority social media. One policy that really sings to me is Zappos Twitter policy ‘Be real and use your best judgement’ - that’s it! Thanks to original posts listed below just for reference…. The list Employee guidelines Blogging guidelines Once digested and reviewed i’m working on a very simple version in plain English using lovely charts….

About these ads Like this: Like Loading... 10 Must-Haves for Your Social Media Policy. Sharlyn Lauby is the president of Internal Talent Management (ITM) which specializes in employee training and human resources consulting. She authors a blog at hrbartender.com. A few weeks ago, I wrote that your organization should have a social media policy, and one of the things I heard among all the great comments was: "Okay, but what should it say? " There are generally two approaches to social media policy making. Some organizations handle social media in an evolutionary way. Chad Houghton, the director of e-media and business development at the Society for Human Resource Management, told me that he thinks, “it might be beneficial not to create some arbitrary rules without first seeing where the opportunities and risks really are.”

Other organizations, meanwhile, feel more comfortable establishing a clear policy from the outset. 1. All policies need to address what's in it for the reader/user — what should the reader take away after reading the policy? 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Online Database of Social Media Policies. Got Social Media Policy? - Beth's Blog: How Nonprofit Organizations Can Use Social Media to Power Social Networks for Change. The other day, Matt Sharp shared this link to a social media policy generator called the Social Media Policy Tool. It asks you 12 questions mostly having to do with control and then spits out the biolerplate for your policy. It reminded of the Postmodernism Thesis Generator could spit out a thesis for you in minutes.

Here's the social media policy I created for Beth's Blog. Obviously, this is a just a beginning, not an end. The language, of course, needs to be customized to your particular situation and the biolerplate included may not be relevant. The process around policy - that is the discussion, buy-in, and education - is so critical for effective use of social media. Creating a social media policy or any other organizational policy requires three steps: The social media policy tool helps you with part of the of step 1. I think it is also very useful to review other organization's policies. Does your nonprofit have a social media policy? Resources from Beth's Blog: