sample social media policies or plans?

[Rochelle Hartman]

The last person who insisted that our organization needed to have social media policy was a trainer from our city's insurance company during a 2-day employment law training earlier this summer. After that training, I was pretty much afraid to do anything. Talk about DIRE. Our city's social media policy is that they don't allow it. When the city HR person who was also at the training expressed surprise that we allowed staff to participate in social media, I said not only did we allow, but sort of expected it. Basic rules: check your spelling, have a voice, and don't be a jerk.

Rochelle Hartman
Adult Services Manager 
La Crosse Public Library (WI)


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Bill,

While I understand your desire to promote good and effective social media practices, I question the impulse to behind an institution's desire to codify or frame social media practice which is, by definition, grassroots and individualistic. To quote a colleague, "if you want to tell people how to do social media, you're doing it wrong." That said, I am in favor of  promoting ideas for effective, novel or creative uses of social media. There seems to be a growing industry emerging around this: http://bit.ly/SXmwoK

Steve Brantley

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Drew, Wilfred E CTR USAF AFMC AFRL/RIOIL <Wilfred.Drew.ctr at rl.af.mil> wrote:
> For the last few months I have been trying to find high quality social 
> media policies and plans put together by libraries of all types.  I 
> had a few links but now those links no longer work.  I am doing a 
> workshop at the end of next week and need some great examples that I can use as
> part of an information packet.   Please send me any examples or URLS if
> you know of social media policies and plans.  I am especially 
> interested in ones that have clear objectives and evaluation.  If so, 
> please send them to my gmail address not my work email:  
> bill.drew at gmail.com
>
> I have Michael Stephen's any library model already.
>
>
> Wilfred (Bill) Drew
> Croop-LaFrance, Inc.
> Technical Librarian
> AFM/AFRL/RIOIL
> Tech Library
> Rome Research Site
> Phone: (315) 330-7608
> Email: Wilfred.Drew.ctr at RL.af.mil
>
> "Don't be the turkey."  -- Nassim Taleb in The Black Swan: the impact 
> of the highly improbable.
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Steve Brantley
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Daley Library, UIC
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