Social Media Policy Examples
- Social Media Policy Examples
- Corporate Social Media Policy
Updated 06-30-09 - So you finally convinced your organization to get on the social media rocket… but what about all of those questions? What happens when an executive posts photos of the corporate party on Facebook or the mail room guy loads a video of the entire office on YouTube? No worry… everyone has to have a policy.
To help narrow in on the questions and problems everyone has when dealing with a new communication channel, I’ve collected fifteen (thirty+ as of 03/16/09) great resources:
POLICY EXAMPLES
- Blog Council – Disclosure Policy
- Greteman Group (Marketing Agency)
- IBM Social Computing Guidelines
- CISCO Internet Postings Policy
- HP Code of Conduct
- Intel – Social Media Guidelines
- Opera Employee Blogging Policies
- Sun Guidelines on Public Disclosure
- Harvard Law School – Terms & Policy
- BBC – Editorial Guidelines, personal use of Social Networking
- US Navy – Web 2.0 – Utilizing New Web Tools
- CivilService – Code for Online Participation
- (CIPR) Chartered Institute of Public Relations Social Media Guidelines
- CIPR – Social Media Guidelines for Consultation
- US Air Force Social Media Policy (with flow chart)
- Porter Novelli (PR Firm – added 2-26-08)
- Government Policy (added 2-26-08)
- Dow Jones Social Media Interaction Policy
- WellsFargo Community Guidelines
- Wall Street Journal
- GM Motors Blogging Policy
- Gartner Web Participation Policy
- Associated Press Social Media Policy
- ESPN Employee Social Media Policy
- ESPN Talent / Anchor Social Media Policy
- Kodak Social Media Policy / Marketing Book (tongue-in-cheek award for mixing flagrant marketing material with pseudo-policy)
You can also take a look at the Edelman report on President Obama’s social media campaign (PDF). It has some interesting conclusions to the way social media was used on a massive scale.
PR Agencies and Privacy – MediaCzar (Mat Morrison) – This is probably one of the most detailed “train of thought” post about social media policy when dealing with an agency perspective I have seen. Thanks to Mat for detailing his thoughts.
The New PR Wiki - Includes CNN, General Motors, Dept of the Navy and many others. Good resource of older policies as well.
If you know of any we have missed, please let us know in the comments below!
11 Responses to “Social Media Policy Examples”
Leave a Reply
Additional comments powered by BackType
After reading a few of these I captured my notes, comments and thoughts in this post: http://www.socialcrm.net/2009/01/corporate-soci...
Filiberto Selvas
Thanks for adding some insightful viewpoints on some of the pros/cons to a few of these policy examples. Anyone reading these should take the time to consider the extra commentary you added on your site.
It makes me think that my “no policy” is not going to cut it moving into the future as more and more of my business is in the social media realm. The military policies will be interesting to read, probably a very unique perspective on security sensitive transmissions.
[...] Social Media Policy Examples – a growing list of over fifty different social media policies, including some presentation decks on slideshare and helpful resources for defining your own corporate policy. [...]
Twitter Comment
Social Media Policy Examples: [link to post]
– Posted using Chat Catcher
Twitter Comment
@pchaney #uftradiochat SoMe policies – [link to post]
– Posted using Chat Catcher
Twitter Comment
@mvacondios – I’d love to learn more about Neighborhood America from a platform standpoint; it’s an online community platform for biz use?
– Posted using Chat Catcher
Twitter Comment
@mvacondios – Thanks for listening today and thanks for the resource. #uftradiochat
– Posted using Chat Catcher
[...] http://123socialmedia.com/2009/01/23/social-media-policy-examples/ [...]
[...] Example Social Media Policies – this is a collection of over fifty different policies from all over the globe. While reading social media policies doesn’t sound terribly sexy or interesting… reading five to ten different policies from various companies really sheds a light on how professionals see the risk and benefits associated to social media. The originating article of corporate social media policy was also popular (but didn’t get read by 25k+ people) [...]
[...] out more about social media or reading the social media policies of companies can be found at http://123socialmedia.com/2009/01/23/social-media-policy-examples/ Another thorough introductory overview of media policy can be found at [...]