{"id":4679,"date":"2009-08-25T02:19:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T02:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=4679"},"modified":"2025-06-05T15:17:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:17:40","slug":"corporate-social-media-policy-needed-here-are-samples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/corporate-social-media-policy-needed-here-are-samples\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate social media policy needed? Here are samples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4716\" style=\"float: left;margin-left: 13px;margin-right: 13px\" title=\"policy2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/policy22.jpg\" alt=\"policy2\" width=\"200\" height=\"224\" \/>What do you do when you&#8217;re walking past the\u00a0sales department in your company and you see a sales rep uploading a photo of him and his drunken buddies to his Facebook page?<\/p>\n<p>What about that strange guy in Receiving\u00a0who tweets about all things Gothic and, occasionally, slips the name of your company into his weird tweets?<\/p>\n<p>Or the woman in HR who\u00a0thinks social media is a waste of time and gives dirty looks to anyone who even talks about it?<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to have a social media policy right at your fingertips to avoid problems like those? Sure it would. But writing one could be a nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>So\u00a0relax. I found several dozen samples you can refer to when writing your own policy.<\/p>\n<p>Last week,\u00a0I was preparing a presentation\u00a0on social media for managers in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ExecutiveAgenda.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Executive Agenda<\/a>, a professional development group for senior executives in Wisconsin, and needed a sample social media policy.\u00a0To save time, I went over to\u00a0LinkedIn and asked if anyone had a sample they&#8217;d be willing to share.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven people responded. I struck gold! You can, too:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Marketing communications strategist Alan Stamm shares\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140810063937\/http:\/\/123socialmedia.com\/social-media-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this list<\/a> of more than 30 social media policies, compiled by Barry Hurd at\u00a0123 Social Media in Seattle. It includes\u00a0 policies for Harvard University, the U.S. Air Force, HP, Intel, Cisco, GM and ESPN. <\/li>\n<li>Alan also linked to\u00a0blogger Filberto Selvas who <a href=\"http:\/\/socialmediatoday.com\/index.php?q=SMC\/68980\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">comments<\/a> on\u00a0what he found within policies from those organizations. <\/li>\n<li>Ari Adler, who <a href=\"http:\/\/aribadler.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/06\/twitter-policies-story-at-ragan-com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> about corporate social media policies for Ragan.com,\u00a0 shared a particularly helpful\u00a0Top 10 Guidelines for Social Media.\u00a0It&#8217;s copyright-free and can be used with or without attribution to\u00a0Shift Communications, which helped a client write it. <\/li>\n<li>Freelancer Fawn Fitter\u00a0shared an article she wrote for Microsoft.com on how to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/midsizebusiness\/business-goals\/drive-innovation\/it-employees-and-youth.mspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Accommodate Younger Workers in Your IT Strategy. <\/a>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/midsizebusiness\/business-goals\/drive-innovation\/it-employees-and-youth.mspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Lynne Eisaguirre, a former employment attorney, cautions: &#8220;You also need to consider the advice of your IT people about the danger of using too much bandwith, importing viruses and the like.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By the way, if you aren&#8217;t asking questions on LinkedIn, you&#8217;re not taking advantage of a powerful shortcut to doing research. Answering questions is also a great way to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promote your expertise on LinkedIn.<\/a><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you do when you&#8217;re walking past the\u00a0sales department in your company and you see a sales rep uploading a photo of him and his drunken buddies to his Facebook page? What about that strange guy in Receiving\u00a0who tweets about all things Gothic and, occasionally, slips the name of your company into his weird\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/corporate-social-media-policy-needed-here-are-samples\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":2,"wds_primary_category":638,"footnotes":""},"categories":[638],"tags":[645],"class_list":{"0":"post-4679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-social-media","7":"tag-free-social-media-tools","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42044,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4679\/revisions\/42044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}