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. There are 238 policies currently in the database. 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. You can add policies using this form.

Most of these policies pre-date some of the recent rules from the National Labor Relations Board.

Those rules call into question some aspects of the policies listed in the database. The NLRB has blessed one social media policy as being legal: NLRB Approved Social Media Policy.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AuuCq02eKVqldDAzWWt3S0VabWNQam1aWmx0ZjJsaGc&hl=en

Other collections of social media policies:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=t03YkwKEZmcPjmZZltf2lhg&single=true&gid=0&range=G2&output=txt

81 Replies to “Social Media Policies Database”

  5. Chris Boudreaux

    (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?

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    1. Doug Cornelius

      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.

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      1. Chris Boudreaux

        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”.

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        1. Doug Cornelius

          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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      2. don

        There is no controvesy here. This is a list of publicly available links, nothing worthy of copyright here or on other blog lists. Otherwise, give credit to your favorite search tool and move on.

        You both have good lists, and we appreciate and favorite them. The value is in who keeps adding to their list and pruning broken links over time, as well as what related content you publish.

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  7. Nancy Myrland

    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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  15. Chris Syme

    The link to Ball State University is not working. Do you have the right one? I had looked at it earlier and ran off a copy but I wanted to link back to this in a blog. Can you help?

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  22. Francine McKenna

    Doug,

    I’m going to include a list to this site and this list in my presentation to the West Florida ISACA Chapter this week. I will be presenting on social media risks and strategies for IT auditors and security professionals in Tampa September 10-11.

    Thanks!

    Reply
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