Every enterprise has some sort of social media touching it. Whether it is an officially sanctioned Facebook Fan page, or employees Tweeting on the latest company gossip, social media is being used by employees (and the public).

It is essential that companies establish clear guidelines and policies, enabling employees, contractors and clients alike to understand the responsibilities associated with social media offers.

Having the proper policies and guidelines in place will help curtail common issues associated with social media implementation in corporate environments. Issues such as:

* The release of confidential corporate information
* Sharing of proprietary Intellectual Property
* Effect on corporate reputation
* Liability
* Employee time/productivity

Source: www.prescientdigital.com Posted by support 717 days, 17 hours, 42 minutes ago

Lately, it seems that just about everyone and everything has a Facebook page, Twitter account or blog. Employees who are responsible for updating or managing those social media channels have likely been instructed on what can and can’t be posted.

Although the FTC “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising" are explicit about transparency, there are still a lot of questions that many employees have about what is and is not acceptable. Taking Constitutional Law out of the mix, let’s focus on the company or organizational policy.

Here are a set of rules that organizations should consider implementing to ensure that both the organization and the employee understand how to engage online.

Source: www.ragan.com Posted by bee 741 days, 5 hours ago

Official web 2.0 governance policies or best practices. (with your agency approval).

The Social Media Subcouncil is a group of government web managers at the federal, state, and local levels bringing together social media best practices and other resources for the benefit of government agencies. It operates under the Federal Web Managers Council.

Source: govsocmed.pbworks.com Posted by JennyWilliams 762 days, 16 hours, 14 minutes ago

Organisations nowadays are complex, diverse and everchanging. Within this working environment intranet managers need to define their place in the organisation.

One way to help establish where the intranet manager fits in an organisation is a position description. Position descriptions describe the key or major duties and responsibilities of the position.

The intranet manager may inherit a position description with the role or more often intranet managers need to create both the role and a position description.

Source: www.steptwo.com.au Posted by bee 776 days, 18 minutes ago

The fundamental goal of developing a new structure for an intranet is to produce something that works well for staff. As discussed in the earlier article Escaping the organisation chart on your intranet, this often means getting away from a navigation structure that mirrors content ownership.

Experience has shown that staff will struggle to find information if they have to know who owns the content first.

Source: www.steptwo.com.au Posted by bee 776 days, 16 hours, 25 minutes ago