Social Media Policies Database
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Here is my collection social media policies. I initially gathered a big collection while trying to formulate my own policy. That collection grew over the years to include a variety of industries, types of companies (public or private), industry and approach to social media (proactive, prohibitive or neutral).
The collection began to get overwhelming so I decided to get it organized. I figured I would just share it and make it available. You can also use the underlying data in the Google Docs Spreadsheet. The spreadsheet also has the date of the policy (if there is one).
Please let me know of other policies that are not in the list. I’m also willing to accept anonymous contributions.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AuuCq02eKVqldDAzWWt3S0VabWNQam1aWmx0ZjJsaGc&hl=en
Other collections of social media policies:
- SocialMediaGovernance.com by Chris Boudreaux. Chris also has a great analysis of his collection of social media policies.
- Enterprise: List of 40 Social Media Staff Guidelines by Laurel Papworth
- Social Media Policy Examples
- Jaffe White Papers
- Web 2 0 Governance Policies and Best Practices by Gov.Socialmedia
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=t03YkwKEZmcPjmZZltf2lhg&single=true&gid=0&range=G2&output=txt
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Nice work, this is a great compilation. Thanks for all your work in putting this together.
This is fantastic! Thanks, Doug.
(1) You should link to the source of this data and credit the author: Chris Boudreaux at SocialMediaGovernance.com
(2) You should not have copied the entire list, but listed a few examples and then linked to the source.
(3) You can not take content from another web site and place a Creative Commons license on it.
I notified the Community Manager at Lexis-Nexis about your post as I am also a member of the community, and your post into that community violates their terms of use.
Are you willing to link to the source and modify the list to provide only a few samples to your audience?
Chris -
Your list is tremendous. It was one of the dozens of sites and Google searches that I used to locate social media policies.
But your list is not the same list as this one. I omitted the policies in your list that were not in English and those that had been updated. I also added several new ones. I happy to show you the differences if you would like the benefit of my work.
I have amended the page to add a link to your site.
There seem to be 106 links (94% of your list) which are present on my list, and you added 11 new policies.
How about you remove the items that were taken from my list, keep yours, and link to my site at the top of your page, where anyone is likely to see it?
Maybe say something like: “Here is a list of more than 100 policies, and I would add the following 11″.
Chris -
I think the evidence is clear that I did not steal your list. There are obvious differences in our lists and in our approaches.
I was expecting:
“Sorry for accusing you of stealing. Thanks for finding some new policies that I did not have in my database. Oh, since you are a lawyer and compliance professional you might be able to offer some insight into the difficulties highly regulated companies have with social media.”
Your request is ridiculous. I have been collecting social media policies for years:
http://delicious.com/dougcornelius/blogging_policy?page=2.
That’s where I started. Not from your list.
How about you not include those missing 11 policies in your database and just point people here?
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Doug, this is great. Thanks for taking the time to pull together so many policies. We are still in relatively new territory in social media, so having a resource such as this is extremely valuable.
I know that in my Social Media consulting practice, this will be a resource I will refer to often.
Thanks!
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Very useful, thanks for sharing.
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