Over time I’ve found myself doing more and more foundational work for organizations looking to dip their toes into social media. One of the key elements of this work, in my opinion, is creating a social media policy that fits well with the organization’s goals, culture and risk tolerance.
But where to start?
As it happens, lots of organizations publish their social media guidelines online, ready for you to review and use yourself. Here are 57 61 great social media policy templates and resources to use when building your own. (thanks for the suggestions in the comments!)
Social Media Policies and Guidelines
Other Social Media Policy Resources
| Source | Resource |
| Dave Fleet | Corporate Social Media Policies eBook |
| About.com | Blogging and Social Media Policy Sample |
| Business Week | A Twitter Code of Conduct |
| Doug Cornelius | Blogging/Social Internet Policy (for law firms) |
| Electronic Frontier Foundation | How to Blog Safely (About Work or Anything Else) |
| Elizabeth Hannan | Corporate Social Media Policy Guidelines |
| Mashable | Should Your Company Have a Social Media Policy? |
| New PR Wiki | Blogging Policies List |
| Nonprofit Technology Network | Tips for Writing Your First Social Media Policy |
| Shift Communications | Social Media Guidelines Template |
| rtraction | Policy Tool for Social Media |
| Social Computing Journal | Enterprise Social Media Usage Policies and Guidelines |
| Social Media Governance | Policy Database |
| SocialFish | Social Media, Risk, and Policies for Associations |
| SocialFish | Drafting Social Media Guidelines |
Nice list Dave. You might want to update your link to Hill & Knowlton’s policies though. Here is the up-to-date, official list of our social media principles: http://blogs.hillandknowlton.com/niallcook/hks-policies/
Thanks Niall. Done!
Some more resources you could add to the list:
The New PR Wiki “blogging policies list”: http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=Resources.BloggingPolicy
An online tool to create social media policies: http://socialmedia.policytool.net/
The online database of social media policies (138 at last count): http://socialmediagovernance.com/policies.php
My 2 cents…
Thanks Philippe. Two of those were already on the list, but I added the New PR Wiki one. Much appreciated!
Dave,
Always giving us great content on your site. This will be a great resource. Thanks!
kk
Dave,
Thanks for putting this list together. What an incredible resource to have readily available as companies begin to look at Social Media. I really appreciate all the work you do and prepare for us!
Our follr.com social business card Team Platform solution is a great tool for organizations to use alongside their social media policy.
http://www.slideshare.net/socialgears/social-business-cards-by-follrcom
Any interest, please let me know.
Cheers,
Mark
http://follr.me/mark
Hi Dave,
may I indroduce our Social Media Guidelines at Daimler AG > http://is.gd/dMlXW
Cheers,
Uwe
Thanks Uwe! I’ve added it to the list. Much appreciated.
Thanks for the list, we can never have too many resources. This RT is going out to my 15,000 Twitter Followers (@tomretterbusch):
RT @Don_Crowther: 57 social media policy examples and resources [link to post]
Dave, Thanks for putting this list together. Great resource, bookmarking!
Hi Dave,
may I indroduce our Social Media Guidelines at Krones AG:
http://www.krones.com/downloads/social_media_d.pdf
http://www.krones.com/downloads/social_media_e.pdf
You will find a german as well as an english version.
Take care,
Charles
Wow! What a great source of information. Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks for the great list of resources.