Social Media Guidelines

Social Media Guidelines

This set of best practices will help you and your team avoid the pitfalls of careless, reckless and ultimately detrimental use of social media. Ideas and responses that get published online are forever.

The “Social Media Guidelines” document, provided by Mason, Inc., begins with the
reminder:

“[E]mployees are personally responsible for the content they publish on social
networking websites or any other form of user-generated media. Keep in mind that
everything you publish will be online for a long time.”

That last sentence seems to be something that can be forgotten pretty easily in
personal and professional writing. Words you publish online stick around for quite some
time and prove extremely difficult to erase. If those words aren’t considered
carefully, they can come back to embarrass you. Even worse, they could damage your
business and personal reputation.

That’s why having social media guidelines in place for your business makes such good
business sense. Whether the company has an online presence or not (and chances are, it
does), your employees probably do. Guidelines minimize the risk to the organization,
employers and employees by making rules for use clear and readily available.

Use these guidelines from Mason, Inc., to create your own social media policy to fit
your business needs.

The attached Zip file includes:

• Intro Page.doc
• Cover Sheet and Terms.pdf
• Social Media Guidelines.pdf