Comments on: Thomas Nelson Corporate Blogging Guidelines

By: Five Reasons Why Your Company Doesn’t Need a Social Media Policy

Five Reasons Why Your Company Doesn’t Need a Social Media Policy — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:01:43 +0000

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Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:40:17 +0000

[...] has made Thomas Nelson’s blogging policy available for use by your organization. Click on this link to see the policy and make sure to tweak it for your [...]

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Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 27 of 2009 — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:39:50 +0000

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Shameless Plug Friday 7-03-09 « Cause to Pause — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:17:28 +0000

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By: Michael Hyatt

Michael Hyatt — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:22:59 +0000

Honestly, I don't even remember what are on those pages. I think the usual moral conduct stuff. Bottom line: we've had these in place for almost five years and have never had a problem.

I think corporate guidelines like this are mostly about making clueless CEOs, executive committees, and lawyers feel better about "inviting" employees to blog.

By: Jeffrey Holton

Jeffrey Holton — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:11:10 +0000

Interesting guidelines. It's very fascinating to me to find this emerging trend of companies that *encourage* blogging, as opposed to identifying it as absolutely antithetical to productivity. (There might be good reasons to implement the latter standard, e.g., in a safety-oriented industry.)

I'm curious about the final point you listed. I suspect there are specific implications for behavior.

Are your employee practices part of the public record? Are we allowed to see pages 36-39?

By: patriciazell

patriciazell — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:00:48 +0000

Actually, with the new scrunity on teachers in our state, we are advised to tread the waters of social networking carefully. Since my writing mostly concerns the Bible, I take care to keep it separate from what I do in the classroom.

By: human3rror

human3rror — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:12:07 +0000

this is great!

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