Privacy, please
I’m now trying to update two blogs at once. It’s getting a little tiring, but I’ve never used blogs.mu before (group blogging software) so its been a fun ride.
We just finished our fourth day of class for the Maynard Program. Today was non-stop learning, but at a good pace. We started off with an extensive workshop on social media led by Susan Mernit, a former VP at Netscape and AOL and senior director of product development at Yahoo! Currently, she is a consultant to the Knight Foundation, working with the Knight News Challenge, a program that gives away $5 million annually.
Mernit talked about ways to attract people to your blog and gave some tips on marketing your blog. We also talked about privacy, and the role privacy settings play in a reporter or editor’s choice to add sources to Facebook and Twitter. It’s a moving target, but she essentially said that it’s good to make a social media networking policy so you’re upfront on who you will or will not add to Twitter and Facebook.
She brought up a good point, mainly because my news organization does not have a social media policy. I hope to create one when I get back. Does your news organization have a social media policy? If so, I’d love to hear about it.
Nope, and it’s gotten us into trouble already.
The problem with not having a social media policy for an established company is when those without knowledge of social media attempt to adhere to rigid standards based on usage policies.
If news orgs are going to create social media policies, they need to realize they need input (and actual implementation from them) of those who will be using social media in their positions.
I couldn’t agree more. Are you in the process of creating a policy? I’d like to create one when I return to the paper, but I wouldn’t know where to begin!