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Semantics: Social Media Policy, or Guidelines?

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As associations continue to embrace social media, there have been extensive conversations about the need for an organizational social media policy. We SocialFish wrote a white paper about it, there’s the Social Media Governance web site with a data base of 154 policies and a Google search of “social media policy” has 440 million results.

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Another Word on Social Media Guidelines

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The employer’s extremely broad social media policy was the source of its undoing. Therefore the NLRB ruled that the “Blogging and Internet Posting Policy” contained unlawful provisions that “prohibited employees from making disparaging remarks when discussing the company.” unless the employee receives written approval from the.

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Who Owns Social Media? Risk Management?

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I’ve explored the similarities between building community and risk management before on this blog. Responsibility for social media can reside anywhere; information technology, public relations, marketing, communication, public affairs/policy or even membership. So I’ll help – adopt a risk management policy and strategy.

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10 Reasons to Have a Social Media Response Triage Flowchart

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5) A triage chart is a concrete way to show staff how your social media policy works. Consistency - A simple response policy means that you’ll more likely respond as one voice, instead of many disjointed voices. Air Force Blog Assessment. Has your organization developed a social media triage flowchart?

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Do You Have the Right Insurance for Your Social Media Activities?

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The general liability policy doesn’t cover these risks effectively. Your association needs a media liability policy. Anyone can now make a video, recording, create a blog or publish a book. The policy will pay a third party injured or harmed by the information within the publication. Content, Content, Content.

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Top SocialFish posts of 2010

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Just wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who reads, shares, comments on, tweets and otherwise supports our SocialFishing blog. Thank you to you for making this blog as amazing a resource as it is! Need help with Social Media policies? Semantics: Social Media Policy, or Guidelines? in chronological order.

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2010 Review: SocialFish clients and work

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SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY WORK. Policies became a focal point for us in 2010. We published a whitepaper on social media policies in collaboration with Croydon Consulting in January. That whitepaper guided our work to help two organizations facilitate the process of adopting social media policies. Policy clients in 2010.

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