With all the talk about social media in the workplace, some companies are understandably getting a little nervous, about their rights when it comes to their employees using Facebook, Twitter etc at work. So where do you start when it comes to writing a social media policy?
You need a social media policy that sets out your expectations, empowers your employees to tweet or blog without fear, rewards social media problem-solving, and educates staff on things to avoid in both personal and professional status updates.
It’s smart business to have a social media policy, and luckily some of the biggest brands have already paved the way and published policies that you can emulate.
Here are three social media policies (click on the names for the link) that you can easily take relevent information from to build yours:
Policy documents can be a little boring sometimes, so that is why my favourite of the three is the Kodak one - it is a real pleasure to read.
