This corporate guide for social media is interesting in that it outlines what it calls guiding principles for both employers and employees who use social media.
Guiding principles for employers
Guiding principles for employers
- Lead by example
- Build your policies around job performance, not fuzzy concerns about productivity
- Encourage responsible use
- Grant equal access
- Provide training
- Begin from a position of trust
Guiding principles for employees
More resources available on XpertHR (subscription required)
Legal Q&A: Twitter usage at work
Use of telephones, e-mail and the internet: Policy on social networking websites (policy)
- Listen before you talk
- Say who you are
- Show your personality
- Respond to ideas not to people
- Know your facts and cite your sources
- Stay on the record
- If you respond to a problem, you own it
More resources available on XpertHR (subscription required)
Legal Q&A: Twitter usage at work
Use of telephones, e-mail and the internet: Policy on social networking websites (policy)

