Corporate Social Media Guidelines - Protecting Your Organization From Hidden ...Raul Colon
One wrong move can land you or your company into an unknown abyss. The lack of guidance from Social Media and non-existent controls can cost companies hundreds of thousands or even millions. The hidden risks of not understanding the many channels of Social Media are immeasurable. With a better understanding and some guidance on Social Media Patterns yourself and your company are going to be able to mitigate the arising risks.
Presented by Heather Schoegler and Tamarah Brownlee of Parkview Health. Covers content including:
- Guidelines or Policy or Both?
- Crafting your Policy and Guidelines
- NLRB Insights
- Implementation Plan
- Employee Social Media Examples
- Future Issues
- Your Next Steps
Key Points in this presentation:
- Application of Social Media in the Workplace
- Are Employers Permitted to Monitor Social Media Use by Employees at Work?
- Percentage of Business using Social Media
- How does your organization use SM for Internal communications
- Managing the Risks
- Social Media Policy
- Steps to creating a Policy
Corporate Social Media Guidelines - Protecting Your Organization From Hidden ...Raul Colon
One wrong move can land you or your company into an unknown abyss. The lack of guidance from Social Media and non-existent controls can cost companies hundreds of thousands or even millions. The hidden risks of not understanding the many channels of Social Media are immeasurable. With a better understanding and some guidance on Social Media Patterns yourself and your company are going to be able to mitigate the arising risks.
Presented by Heather Schoegler and Tamarah Brownlee of Parkview Health. Covers content including:
- Guidelines or Policy or Both?
- Crafting your Policy and Guidelines
- NLRB Insights
- Implementation Plan
- Employee Social Media Examples
- Future Issues
- Your Next Steps
Key Points in this presentation:
- Application of Social Media in the Workplace
- Are Employers Permitted to Monitor Social Media Use by Employees at Work?
- Percentage of Business using Social Media
- How does your organization use SM for Internal communications
- Managing the Risks
- Social Media Policy
- Steps to creating a Policy
22% of employees visit social networking sites 5 or more times per week, yet only 54% of employers have a policy dealing with social media inside and outside the workplace. During this presentation, participants will learn about potential legal issues involved in adopting a policy and how to avoid those issues. Sample provisions will be discussed and recommended actions addressed.
Presented by Jackson Lewis.
If you use social media to promote your business, you need a social media policy.
Check out Cendrine Marrouat's presentation to learn which elements must be included in your policy. Cendrine has also included great examples, resources, and tools to save you time.
With social media playing a larger role in a company's marketing mix, it is important that businesses are creating social media policies for their employees.
Managing Social Media in the WorkplaceEric Swenson
The impact of social media in the workplace is growing. Time is being wasted, employees are 'friending' each other and liability for these issues is a litigation attorney's dream come true.
A care assistant is fired for posting insults about the elderly residents in her care and a waitress loses her job for posting a negative comment about customers – the number of firings related to employees’ use of Facebook is growing fast. They also highlight the increasingly blurred boundary between private and work life online. In an effort to help employers develop a fair and effective social media policy, the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) Social Media Council has published a white paper: ‘Staff Use of Social Media Policy – Legal Dimension’.
22% of employees visit social networking sites 5 or more times per week, yet only 54% of employers have a policy dealing with social media inside and outside the workplace. During this presentation, participants will learn about potential legal issues involved in adopting a policy and how to avoid those issues. Sample provisions will be discussed and recommended actions addressed.
Presented by Jackson Lewis.
If you use social media to promote your business, you need a social media policy.
Check out Cendrine Marrouat's presentation to learn which elements must be included in your policy. Cendrine has also included great examples, resources, and tools to save you time.
With social media playing a larger role in a company's marketing mix, it is important that businesses are creating social media policies for their employees.
Managing Social Media in the WorkplaceEric Swenson
The impact of social media in the workplace is growing. Time is being wasted, employees are 'friending' each other and liability for these issues is a litigation attorney's dream come true.
A care assistant is fired for posting insults about the elderly residents in her care and a waitress loses her job for posting a negative comment about customers – the number of firings related to employees’ use of Facebook is growing fast. They also highlight the increasingly blurred boundary between private and work life online. In an effort to help employers develop a fair and effective social media policy, the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) Social Media Council has published a white paper: ‘Staff Use of Social Media Policy – Legal Dimension’.
Whether or not your organization is using social media for business, your employees probably are using it. Whether they're engaging in a personal or professional way, your company needs a social media policy.
Cutting Through The Noise: Simplifying & Socializing (Updated 2/10)Alison Engelsman
Cutting through the Noise- Simplifying & Socializing (Updated 2/10) is about taking a step back and revealing that underneath all the “noise” of social media there is a solid communication tool that, if used correctly, can have a positive impact on an organization's recruiting efforts. This is an encore presentation originally given at HR Tampa in September 2009, although this version includes updates within the industry and more current statistics. Presented at the SHRM Jacksonville monthly meeting, February 2010.
Find the Risk vs. Reward Balance in Social MediaGerardo A Dada
Businesses are increasingly expected to adopt social networking tools, but it must be done with a firm grasp of the risks, rewards and options.
- Determine how social media tools affect your compliance with regulatory and internal requirements
- Identify the right types of social networking solutions for your enterprise
- Measure a real return on your social networking investment
- Develop guidelines for employees to understand the do's and don'ts
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SOCIAL MEDIA USE IN THE WORKPLACE
Dean Clouden
Professional Communication
ENG 315
Assignment 3
The content
The presentation will cover the aspects of use of social media in the workplace.
The presentation will discus the following;
The importance of the use of social media in the workplace.
How social media is used for advertisement.
The policies that regulate the use of social media in the workplace.
Effective professional communication using the social media platforms.
Market segmentation enables a company to nail down the needs and preferences of the market which the company serves by sub diving the market for instance according to the purchasing power of the consumers. McDonalds market segmentation have witnessed some setbacks in some of its market segments creating the need for a new strategy.
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Introduction
Social media is a term that is used to describe any website that enable social interactions.
The rapid growth in technology has increased the use of social media by both organizations and individuals.
Individuals make use of social media to interact with their friends and other people using the platform.
Organizations on the other hand make professional use of social media in advertising their products.
Social media is composed of the following sites; Whatsapp, Facebook, twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn among others.
The use of social media by organizations increases the visibility of the company (Aguenza, 2012).
Individuals use social media to interact and share both formal and informal information with friends, family, and strangers making the world a more comfort zone. Organizations have as well adopted social media to help improve essential processes and operations. This is due to high visibility, persistence, editability, and association
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The importance of use of social media to companies
Social media provides an effective way for companies to access the global market.
Social media plays as a medium which connects the company to its customers.
Companies makes use of multiple platforms in order to increase their market reach using the social media.
The company acquires and also share information using different platforms (Keller, 2009).
Social media creates an effective means of responding to customers’ complaints.
Social media makes it easy for companies to study and learn their competitors.
Social media has facilitated engagement with various audience especially when dealing with online complaints. this plays a role to the suffering or benefiting of companies due to the comments posted by the audience. Social media has enabled easy learning of the competitors. this provides an opportunity to understand the customers need and placing adequate efforts towards providing quality products and services.
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Advertising using Social media
Marketing of products is a critical activity to every organization.
Marketing refers to creation of awareness to customers of the various products of the company.
Social media crea.
This is the final slide deck from my Social Media in Law Practice course for the Univ. of Dayton School of Law Digital Lawyering Program. Covering time management, future of social media, its application to the legal profession, and our deliverable for the session.
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5-2 Final Project Milestone Two Jackson
Adam Jackson
Professor Cole
COM 310
February 10, 2020
Social Platforms and Business Examples
The development of technology and the internet has led companies to incorporate different methods that will help grow its business. Among the strategies used is the increased use of social media platforms, in which the firms can interact with their customers, either to increase brand awareness or to gather feedback from the users (Momany, & Alshboul, 2016). Supportive Networking Society (SNS Ohio Media) is one of the companies that should use social media as a method of growing its business and meet more companies
Business goal
SNS Ohio Media is a firm whose goal is to provide networking opportunities for its clients. The company supports collaboration between different businesses and individuals, which is geared towards ensuring professional growth as well as the development of the organizations. Due to the nature of its operations, the company can make good use of social media to reach more of its customers and to ensure that more people can discover its activities, which will contribute towards the success of the firm.
Instagram
Developed in 2010, Instagram has become one of the fastest-growing social media platforms. This site is an essential tool for a business aiming to reach many clients, more so because of the features that it provides. For instance, SNS Ohio Media can expand its reach to many other companies by using hashtags to increase popularity. Best practices in using Instagram include collaborating with other companies by mentioning them in the content provided on the Instagram page.
Additionally, sharing customer success stories can also be a great way of reaching more people. Instagram supports visual content. Therefore, whatever the company posts should explain what the organization does by presenting it creatively. SNS Ohio Media’s business is service-based, which means that the firm should share content that shows the viewers behind the scenes and process followed to ensure that success is attained.
Facebook
This social media platform is considered as one of the cheapest methods of online marketing. One of the reasons why it is ideal for this company is because it allows the firm to share its business information with Facebook users. By clicking on the company’s profile, it is easy to get information concerning what it does and services offered, as well as the periods within which it is in operation. Other than raising brand awareness through videos and photographs, Facebook provides a platform in which companies can engage with its customers, whereby users provide feedback and suggestions concerning what the firm ought to do to improve its services.
Effective and Ineffective Use of Social Media
One of the best practices in the use of social media in companies is cross-channel marketing. It involves the use of different platforms to reach to the customers (Stephen, 2016). Casper is ...
5-2 Final Project Milestone TwoJackson Adam Jackson Professo.docxBHANU281672
5-2 Final Project Milestone Two Jackson
Adam Jackson
Professor Cole
COM 310
February 10, 2020
Social Platforms and Business Examples
The development of technology and the internet has led companies to incorporate different methods that will help grow its business. Among the strategies used is the increased use of social media platforms, in which the firms can interact with their customers, either to increase brand awareness or to gather feedback from the users (Momany, & Alshboul, 2016). Supportive Networking Society (SNS Ohio Media) is one of the companies that should use social media as a method of growing its business and meet more companies
Business goal
SNS Ohio Media is a firm whose goal is to provide networking opportunities for its clients. The company supports collaboration between different businesses and individuals, which is geared towards ensuring professional growth as well as the development of the organizations. Due to the nature of its operations, the company can make good use of social media to reach more of its customers and to ensure that more people can discover its activities, which will contribute towards the success of the firm.
Instagram
Developed in 2010, Instagram has become one of the fastest-growing social media platforms. This site is an essential tool for a business aiming to reach many clients, more so because of the features that it provides. For instance, SNS Ohio Media can expand its reach to many other companies by using hashtags to increase popularity. Best practices in using Instagram include collaborating with other companies by mentioning them in the content provided on the Instagram page.
Additionally, sharing customer success stories can also be a great way of reaching more people. Instagram supports visual content. Therefore, whatever the company posts should explain what the organization does by presenting it creatively. SNS Ohio Media’s business is service-based, which means that the firm should share content that shows the viewers behind the scenes and process followed to ensure that success is attained.
Facebook
This social media platform is considered as one of the cheapest methods of online marketing. One of the reasons why it is ideal for this company is because it allows the firm to share its business information with Facebook users. By clicking on the company’s profile, it is easy to get information concerning what it does and services offered, as well as the periods within which it is in operation. Other than raising brand awareness through videos and photographs, Facebook provides a platform in which companies can engage with its customers, whereby users provide feedback and suggestions concerning what the firm ought to do to improve its services.
Effective and Ineffective Use of Social Media
One of the best practices in the use of social media in companies is cross-channel marketing. It involves the use of different platforms to reach to the customers (Stephen, 2016). Casper is.
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Social Media Use in Workplace
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Institutional Affiliation
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Social Media aspect in workplace
Use of social media in the workplace continues to grow.
The growth in the social media in the business industries is on the rise.
Social media forms part of the marketing strategies.
For an organization to be successful, social media must be embraced(Michael, 2016).
Cont’d
There is a continuous growth in the use of the social media in the workplace. Social media use is growing in the business industries. Every organization that yearn to be successful must embrace the use of the social media. Social media forms part of the marketing strategies by the organizations.
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Social media improves the communication as well as interaction between the workers
Social media interaction can occur through using internet tools like phones, personal computers, and laptops
Its use is becoming noticeable in many organizations(Society for Human Resource Management, 2016).
Cont’d
The use of social media in the workplace can be through internet tools like internet such as smart phones, laptops, and personal computers. Social media serve a primary purpose of improving communication as well as interaction between employees. Managers have to promote and control the use of social media in the workplace.
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Cont’d
Promotion of the services
Generation of the new business
Increasing the web traffic to site
Building of the organizational brand recognition
Gaining an insight into the clients as well as the new industries(Society for Human Resource Management, 2016).
The importance of Social Media in workplace
Social media in the workplace is important because it helps in the building of the organization brand recognition. It helps in gaining an insight into customers and new industries. It also promotes the services, produces the new businesses, and increasing web traffic to site.
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Social media offers a forum for organizational support to the clients
Offers immediate access to data
Allows for easy sharing of information
It is another platform for organization and customer interaction.
Cont’d
Social media offers another avenue for client-organizations’ interaction; it provides platform for sharing information; offers immediate access to information; and provide a customer support by the organization.
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Creating of tattling to the management of the organizations.
Disclosure of the confidential information to the public thus putting the organization at risk
There is exposure to network attacks like the malware, spyware, and the adware.
Risk of using social media
The use of social media exposes networks to attack whereby the actions of the employees compromises the organization. There is likelihood of distributing confidential information for example posting of the statistical number of the followers and their views; there is also an issue of tattling to managers concerning other worker’s personal posts on the s.
How Law Firms Build Trust for Your Business Online (Social Media Policy)Mike Mintz
This presentation gives the legal and business framework for corporations looking to build trust online with their customers. Through partnering with a law firm to craft a custom social media policy, deploy it to staff, and maintain continuous monitoring and litigation support, businesses can more effectively enter the social media space with confidence.
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Enterprise excellence and inclusive excellence are closely linked, and real-world challenges have shown that both are essential to the success of any organization. To achieve enterprise excellence, organizations must focus on improving their operations and processes while creating an inclusive environment that engages everyone. In this interactive session, the facilitator will highlight commonly established business practices and how they limit our ability to engage everyone every day. More importantly, though, participants will likely gain increased awareness of what we can do differently to maximize enterprise excellence through deliberate inclusion.
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Social Media Policies Presentation Christy Season
1. Social Media Guidelines why have it • what it looks like • who should it cover Christy A. Season, CAPM SMC Columbia | 07.30.09
2. You can’t ignore social media anymore Verdict is in: social media is here to stay Twitter grew 1,382% year-over-year in February, registering a total of more than 7 million visitors in the US for the month 65.7 million unique visitors (and growing) on Facebook Source: Nielsen Online Social Media is no longer Gen Y dominated Facebook’s largest group of users are 35 -54 Number of Facebook users aged 55 and over has grown from 950,000 to 5.9 million in only 6 mo. Source: iStrategy Labs Your employees are using it – at work, at home, on their cell phones . . . 7/30/2009 2 Christy A. Season, CAPM
3. Why put guidelines in place? More than 1 in 5 companies have disciplined an employee for violating blog or message board policies in the last year Of these companies, half have terminated an employee for such a violation. (Source: ProofPoint – security company) Over 20% have investigated the exposure of confidential, sensitive or private information via a blog or message board posting. (Source: ProofPoint – security company) One-third of employees surveyed never consider what their boss or customers might think before posting material online (Source: Deloitte Ethics & Workplace Survey) 7/30/2009 3 Christy A. Season, CAPM
4. Why put guidelines in place? Unauthorized or inappropriate commentary or posts online can: Get the company, and the employee, in legal trouble with the U.S. and other government agencies, other companies, customers or the general public. Diminish the company’s brand name by creating negative publicity for the company, owners and partners as well as employees. Cause damage to the company by releasing non-public information or proprietary information. Cost the company the ability to get patents or undermine your competitive advantage. Cost the employee their job at the company. Source: Click to Client – Online Marketing Experts 7/30/2009 4 Christy A. Season, CAPM
5. Why put guidelines in place? There’s the stupid . . . Arlington, Ore. Mayor posts racy pictures of herself in lingerie posing on a city fire truck on her MySpace profile Charlotte school teacher gets fired from teaching job for posting derogatory statements on her Facebookprofile about her students Dominoes employees create viral video showing them doing disgusting things to a customer’s food order There’s those who just didn’t know better . . . New employee hired at company blogs about first day at work, shares proprietary information Employee posts status update to Facebook about how hard the Excel sheet he’s working on is – and includes a screen shot of the Excel file, complete with confidential financial data Employees sharing confidential, internal e-mails or communications by posting them online in comments to news stories or blogs – they are just trying to help 7/30/2009 5 Christy A. Season, CAPM
6. Knee jerk reaction “Let’s just block all social media sites” Would you take away e-mail from employees? Or their phones? Still have access outside of work Employees don’t need social media to goof off at work Performance issue, not a technology issue Before social media…before computers… Workers would gather around the water cooler for some mindless banter Cigarette breaks, head to the vending machines, co-worker's office for chit-chat Social media at work improves productivity? University of Melbourne research found that people who took small breaks between tasks were 9% more productive than their colleagues who did not You want your employees to be innovative, creative, and make good quality decisions using competitive information So why would you prevent access to these new tools? Twitter reports news faster than most news agencies Social media is free and information is instant 7/30/2009 6 Christy A. Season, CAPM
7. Knee jerk reaction Gen-Y and newer generations expect to have access While not a Gen-Y exclusive tool anymore, it’s still an expectation of Gen-Y Children are interacting with computers and social media at a younger and younger age New generations are entering the workplace and expect to leverage tools like text messaging, Twitter, blogs, and Facebook A recent survey has 39% of younger workers considering leaving their jobs if they lost access to the popular social networking site (Source: Telindus) Blocking access sends a bigger message to younger generations who value work-life balance “We don’t trust you.” “Your duties here are more important than the rest of your life”. 21% would just be annoyed Younger employees might not quit, but in a competitive job market, it might be enough to make them choose another employer over you Happy employee = engaged employee = higher profits 7/30/2009 7 Christy A. Season, CAPM
8. Why put guidelines in place? Social media is simply a new channelto an existing assortment of channels already accessible to your employees E-mail Telephone Face-2-face Etc. We already have policies and guidelines in place for these channels, social media is just a new addition Extend existing policies to social media 7/30/2009 8 Christy A. Season, CAPM
9. Why put guidelines in place? Your employees are your brand, their behavior online reflects on the company Employees generally want to do the right thing, violations occur due to lack of education Most applicable to new employees Policies or guidelines can easily be created to guide employees on the rights and wrongs of using social media Guide employees - don’t mandate if possible, tell them how to use it, or discourage use Employees will begin to govern themselves Determine up front whether to create a policy or guidelines Important to distinguish between the two Guidelines are best practices, ”nice-to-have” Policy violations can have serious consequences for your business 7/30/2009 9 Christy A. Season, CAPM
10. Basic Process for Creating Social Media Guidelines 7/30/2009 10 Christy A. Season, CAPM
11. Step 1: Create a committee Create a cross-functional committee consisting of representatives of departments who have a vested interest in policies Our Committee Corporate Communications IT Corporate Compliance HR Include all generations Ensures you get input from all aspects, cover all bases 7/30/2009 11 Christy A. Season, CAPM
12. Step 2: Don’t reinvent the wheel Look at available policies/guidelines from other companies See what works already Reach out to others in your industry You already have policies in place for e-mail, computer use at work, and public discourse Use these existing policies and extend to cover social media 7/30/2009 12 Christy A. Season, CAPM
13. Step 3: Choose your high level sections 7/30/2009 13 Christy A. Season, CAPM Decide what needs to be covered in the guidelines Choose sections that make sense with your business and for your employees We used a worksheet comparing main sections from policies/guidelines we benchmarked (see handout) Helped us see what was used across all policies and allowed us to ‘pick and choose’ what worked for us Shows typical sections found in social media policies
14. Step 4: Develop out the content Important to use same tone as your other company policies Tone of guidelines must match other existing policies Tone and content of document must reflect culture of the company Otherwise employees won’t take it seriously and it won’t be effective Be sure to define within guidelines what ‘social media’ is and what it covers Cover what happens when certain aspects of the guidelines are violated 7/30/2009 14 Christy A. Season, CAPM
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17. Make sure your top level management understand the need for the guidelines, the benefits of the guidelines, and the guidelines itself!
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19. Step 9: Reevaluate and keep it current Social media is constantly growing and changing with new sites and tools launching every day Don’t let your policy get outdated Keep the policy up-to-date and current by continuously updating thepolicy to match the current social media environment Continue to solicit employee feedback We are looking into the possibility down the road to merge existing policies with social media guidelines Considering creating an umbrella ‘electronic media’ policy that covers all channels 7/30/2009 17 Christy A. Season, CAPM
20. Who should it cover? EVERYONE! All of your employees have access to social media Policy should cover all employees Doesn’t make sense to limit it to specific groups Contractors may or may not be covered If you generally include contractors in existing corporate policies, it makes sense to include them in the guidelines If you are unsure, check with the company that employs the contractors to see what guidelines are already in place 7/30/2009 18 Christy A. Season, CAPM
21. Trust your employees. . . Policy or no policy, there will always be the individuals who goof off on social media at work or share too much information. With or without social media, chances are these folks would be in trouble with management regardless The majority of your employee population will govern themselves, act responsibly, and may even help promote your brand. Employees are your greatest ambassadors They can help shape and control the message just as much as any PR firm Zappos.com Blown away competition with marketing and new sales opportunities by allowing its employees to interact with customers and businesses via social media (Twitter) 7/30/2009 19 Christy A. Season, CAPM Sean R. Nicholson, author of the Intranet Experience blog, says it best, “Sometimes a simple reminder of good judgment can have as powerful of an effect as a harsh corporate policy…What’s the alternative? Write a complex policy banning them from social media activities that is both unrealistic and unproductive. And what fun is that??”
22. Thank You. Questions or Comments? Christy A. Season, CAPM cseason@gmail.com @ChristySeason
Editor's Notes
Social media may have started as the domainof American teens and 20-somethings, butthey have become online experiences thattranscend demographics and dominateInternet usage for nearly every age group.