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Social Media Guidelines Template (free download)

If you’ve been involved in social media or real-time communications, you may have heard that it is wise to have social media guidelines in place.

To help you make the most of the web, you can now download a Social Media Guidelines Template for your organisation.

Conservative Social Media Guidelines Template Free Download 240 KB

Moderate Social Media Guidelines Template Free Download - 241 KB

Unrestricted Social Media Guidelines Template Free Download - 241 KB

We’ve collaborated with Social Media Law firm Blands Law and Quality Management firm Qudos to provide you with these templates free of charge.

These templates are Word documents that you can edit yourself and you can add your company logo easily. They are released under Creative Commons 3.0 which means you can edit and share them as you see fit.

How to use these templates

Step 1: Decide whether your organisation wishes to have conservative, moderate or unrestricted social media guidelines.
Step 2: Edit the Word document to include your organisation name (instead of XYZ Corporation), your logo and your Managing Director's name (or equivalent).
Step 3: Print the guidelines and get the Managing Director to sign the document.
Step 4: Show all your employees, post it to the wall in your office and ask employees to commit to the guidelines.
Step 5: Ideally you would include the social media guidelines in your company's employment or HR agreement as well.

This template is a 'guideline' or starting point to help your organisation make the most of the web. When you want to take the next step and get a more detailed social media policy, it is worth talking directly with a social media laywer.

Thanks for your continued support and we hope you find these templates useful.

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