Social Media Policy

Web Policy is a Corporate Governance Concern

Posted by Lisa Welchman 1 year ago

Often when we help organizations establish web policy, the web team balks when we recommend they seek guidance from colleagues in legal or human resources (or some other “non-web” domain). We always push back. Web policy addresses (among other things) the mitigation of risk associated with operating online. And shaping effective web policy requires the experience and expertise of a diverse set of organizational domain experts—not just the web team.

A 360 degree look at Social Media Policy

Posted by Christine Pierpoint 1 year ago

To tweet or not to tweet? That seems to be the question in a lot of organizations today. It's certainly top-of-mind for web, communications and IT managers, and increasingly we're hearing from privacy, ethics, HR and legal counsel as well. Everyone wants to know how to govern social media in the enterprise.

Our view on social media (as well as any web-related policy) is to take a holistic approach. Social media can have a broad impact on an organization, and as managers you have to look at the potential risk from every angle.