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Please use this space to share any official governance policies or best practices (with your agency approval). You may upload or provide links to relevant documents.
At this time, we are collecting existing policies and best practices from leading edge governments and corporations. The social media subcouncil has not yet determined its scope of work in this area.
Other lists are linked at the bottom of the page.
Private Sector
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IBM | Social Computing Practices | http://www.ibm.com/blogs/zz/en/guidelines.html | |
Intel | Social Media Guidelines | http://www.intel.com/sites/sitewide/en_US/social-media.htm | |
Altimeter Group | List of Social Media Policies | http://wiki.altimetergroup.com/page/Social+Media+Policies?t=anon | |
Mayo Clinic | Social Media Guidelines for Employees | http://sharing.mayoclinic.org/guidelines/for-mayo-clinic-employees |
Public Sector
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Air Force
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"Rules of Engagement" for Blogging
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http://www.globalnerdy.com/2008/12/30/the-air-forces-rules-of-engagement-for-blogging/
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Commerce, Department of
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Internet Usage Policy
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http://ocio.os.doc.gov/ITPolicyandPrograms/Policy___Standards/DEV01_002684
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Environmental Protection Agency
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March 2009
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Various
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EPA social media policy and guidance page in this wiki. Includes:
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Energy, Department of
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Internet Usage Policy
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http://cio.energy.gov/cybersecurity/appropriate_use.htm
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Fairfax County, VA
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Fairfax County's comments policy
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http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/opa/getfairfax/facebook-comments-policy.htm
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GovGab
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Blog Policies
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http://blog.usa.gov/roller/govgab/page/policies
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Internal Revenue Service | draft | IRS Recruitment Office communication strategy with social media components | http://govsocmed.pbworks.com/f/IRO%20Strategy%20Communiaction%20%20FINALdraft%5B1%5D |
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Massachusetts, Commonwealth of
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Comment Policy for Massachusetts' Public Health Blog. Other blogs (www.mass.gov/blogs) have very similar policies
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http://publichealth.blog.state.ma.us/comment-policy.html
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Massachusetts, Commonwealth of
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n/a
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Executive Office of Health and Human Services' Privacy Policy that includes information on privacy as related to the Public Health Blog
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http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eohhs2utilities&L=1&sid=Eeohhs2&U=policy_privacy
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Massachusetts, Commonwealth of | n/a |
Social Media Toolkits Including:
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http://www.mass.gov/itd/socialmedia
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Massachusetts, Commonwealth of - Office of the Governor | Social Media Policies | http://www.mass.gov/governor/socialmedia | |
Military Health System
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MHS Comment Policy
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http://health.mil/commentPolicy.aspx
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National Archives | Guidance on Managing Records in Web 2.0/Social Media Platforms | http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/bulletins/2011/2011-02.html | |
Seattle, City of
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n/a
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City of Seattle blogging policy
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http://www.seattle.gov/pan/BloggingPolicy.htm
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State Department
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Dipnote Blogging Policy
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http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/info/legal/
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Washington Secretary of State | Records Management Advice |
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Washington State DOT
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Blog Comment Policy
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http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Policy/blog.htm
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UK Government | Template for Government Twitter policy
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http://www.scribd.com/doc/17313280/Template-Twitter-Strategy-for-Government-Departments
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Private Sector
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The Blog Council
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"Disclosure Best Practices Toolkit" is a draft series of checklists to help companies, their employees, and their agencies learn the appropriate and transparent ways to interact with blogs, bloggers, and the people who interact with them.
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http://blogcouncil.org/disclosure/
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Legal Guide for Bloggers
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http://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal
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Sun Microsystems
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Guidelines on Public Discourse
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http://www.sun.com/communities/guidelines.jsp
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Rightnow
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Social Web Employee Policy
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http://www.rightnow.com/privacy-social.php
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Media Law Resource Center
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Compilation of Blog-related Lawsuits
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http://www.medialaw.org/bloggerlawsuits
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BBC
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Personal Use of Social Networking and other 3rd Party Websites
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/editorialguidelines/advice/personalweb/index.shtml
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Yahoo
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Internal Blog Policy
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Social Media Policies
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