This is a guest blog post by social media lawyer Malcolm Burrows:
Twitter, Myspace, Youtube and Facebook (Social Networking Sites (SNS)) have become household names in the new millenium. Whether you like it or not, staff in your organisation are using them.
What is a Social Media Policy?
A Social Media Policy (SMP) is a document that augments the contract of employment so as to be legally enforceable by an organisation on its employees. The aim of an SMP is to clearly communicate what is acceptable conduct on Social Networking Sites by an organisations employees and contractors and what conduct is unacceptable and would make an employee liable to dismissal.…
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