The Social Media Guidelines Template is a stepping stone to your Social Media Policy
Corporate, Schools, Government & Business
Download this free Social Media Guidelines Template which will be perfect for your organisation whether you’re corporate, a school, government or business. It works well for staff, employees, students and teachers and you edit each document to suit your company’s specific needs.
Conservative |
Moderate |
Unrestricted |
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.
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If you find these templates useful, please feel free to blog about it, tweet it, link to it and share it with the world!
The Social Media Guidelines Template is free & licensed under Creative Commons License, Attribution 3.0. This means you may edit or build upon the work and even use it commercially, but you must give the original author proper attribution. Thank you!
The requested attribution is a link to this Social Media Guidelines Template page at https://www.bluewiremedia.com.au/free-social-media-guidelines-template.
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 (or Headmaster) 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.
How to add your company logo to the document:
Step 1. Delete the ‘company logo’ holding image:
- Click on the image and press delete or backspace on your keyboard.
- Then click anywhere in the body of the document.
Step 2. Add your logo to the document:
- Go to the ‘Insert’ tab and select ‘Picture’. This will allow you to select a file from your computer. Click ‘Insert’.
- Select the logo you wish to add to the document.
- Your logo will be added to the document wherever your curser was positioned.
Step 3. Position your image:
- Click on the logo you have just added to the document. This will give you access to a ‘Picture Tools’ tab.
- Click on that tab to open the ‘Picture Tools’ menu, select ‘Wrap Text’.
- Choose the ‘In Front of Text’ option.
- While the logo is selected, use the arrow keys on your keyboard to position in the top left hand corner of the document.
NB: The ‘Picture Tools’ tab will also allow you to resize your image.
Thanks for your continued support and we hope you find these templates useful.
Please share
If you find these templates useful, please feel free to blog about it, tweet it, link to it and share it with the world!
The Social Media Guidelines Template are free & licensed under Creative Commons License, Attribution 3.0.
This means you may edit or build upon the work and even use it commercially, but you must give the original author proper attribution. Thank you!
The requested attribution is a link to this Social Media Guidelines Template page at https://www.bluewiremedia.com.au/free-social-media-guidelines-template.
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