Best Practices in Social Media Governance
Develop a robust strategy for the promotion, management and monitoring of your organisation's social media activities.
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Details
- Publication date: February, 2012
- Pages: 71
- ISBN: 9781908640239
Description
The business benefits of social media use are clear. It’s creating and protecting a positive presence in this unpredictable territory that presents the challenge.
An effective governance strategy is critical if you are to maintain control of participation while still allowing freedom for benefits to accrue in intrinsically unexpected ways.
Ark Group’s report, Best Practices in Social Media Governance will enable you to develop a robust strategy and framework for the promotion, management and monitoring of social media activities throughout your organisation. It provides a vital understanding of the basic principles, imperatives and legal considerations of social media governance, as well as the key policies and documents that should be in place to ensure your strategy is a success.
Specifically, this report is designed to help you:
- Understand the benefits and risks involved in social media participation;
- Create a successful social media policy for your organisation;Integrate your social media policy with existing organisational strategies;
- Ensure your documentation is fit for purpose;
- Encourage top level buy-in;
- Train employees, manage expectations and instil organisational values into their activities; and
- Measure and manage the impact of your social media activities.
Real-life case studies of well-known organisations such as Domino’s Pizza, Johnson & Johnson, Dell and Chapstick exemplify the best and worst approaches to take when faced with an online backlash.
These cautionary tales and the example policies from the BBC, IBM and the American Institute of Architects will help you to consider the most effective policies for your own social media activity.
Contents
Chapter 1: What is social media?
Chapter 2: Why govern social media?
Chapter 3: The legal context – Protecting your IP on the internet
Chapter 4: Governance structures and documentation
Chapter 5: Creating a social media policy
Chapter 6: Managing social media participation
Chapter 7: Managing social media impact
Case study 1: Domino’s Pizza
Case study 2: The Johnson & Johnson Motrin advertisement
Case study 3: Dell
Case study 4: ChapStick
Example policy 1: BBC
Example policy 2: The American Institute of Architects
Example policy 3: IBM
Check our Executive Summary and full table of contents here