Social Media DIY Workshop » Employees and Social Media http://socialmediadiyworkshop.com The online workshop to help small business learn to use social media Thu, 17 May 2012 20:12:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Social Media And Your Employees http://socialmediadiyworkshop.com/2010/05/social-media-and-your-employees/ http://socialmediadiyworkshop.com/2010/05/social-media-and-your-employees/#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 13:00:29 +0000 Charlene Kingston http://socialmediadiyworkshop.com/?p=4518 Businesses with employees need to create a social media policy that covers what you expect of your employees on social media, whether they use it on behalf of your business or for personal reasons. It’s an important issue, and here’s a list of resources you can use to start building your policy today.

  • Before You Start: You have employees. It doesn’t matter if you use social media for your business currently or if you are just in the planning stages.
  • Learning Level: 1 | Social Media Basics
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employeesEmployees Using Social Media

Every few months, someone gets fired because of something they said on social media and it makes the news. The truth is that your employees are using social media, and some of them are venting about work. So how do you draw a line that is fair and enforceable?

In a related topic, do you allow your employees to use social media sites from work? Some people feel that its contradictory to have the company use social media but prevent employees from accessing the same tools during the work day. Other people worry about employees wasting time on social media.

If your company encourages people to engage customers and potential customers on social media, what guidelines do you give them? Do they cover the full range of conversations taking place, such as comments your employees make a blog posts?

Your Social Media Policy

No doubt companies today are wrestling with the issues around employee use of social media. Here are some recent articles to help you sort through the challenges and create a social media policy that sets appropriate guidelines.

I’d love to see the policy you create for your business. Would you consider sharing your social media policy with the Social Media DIY Workshop community?

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