Dell's Online Policies
Dell's Consumer Terms of Sale govern the sale of Dell products, software and services to consumers for their own use (not for resale) directly from Dell over the internet (including the Home and Home Office website), by phone/mail order, or from a Dell-branded retail store or mall kiosk. (Para español, haga clic aqui) Dell's Commercial Terms of Sale govern the sale of Dell products, software and services to commercial customers, including Small Office Customers (1–9 employees), Small and Medium Businesses, Public Sector and Large Enterprises.
Comment Policy : Iowa Hospital Association Blog
The staff behind the Iowa Hospital Association blog are anxious to receive your feedback and comments on our articles. After all, that’s what social media is about, right? We intend to be courteous and professional in our postings and ask that you do the same. We maintain specific positions on health policy, but we will not remove comments shared by those who have different viewpoints if they are presented in a civilized manner.
Cisco’s Internet Postings Policy - The Platform
With the rise of new media and next generation communications tools, the way in which Cisco employees can communicate internally and externally continues to evolve. While this creates new opportunities for communication and collaboration, it also creates new responsibilities for Cisco employees. This Internet Postings Policy applies to employees who use the following: Multi-media and social networking websites such as MySpace, Facebook, Yahoo! Groups and YouTube Blogs (Both Cisco Blogs and Blogs external to Cisco) Wikis such as Wikipedia and any other site where text can be posted
Le Bonheur Blogs - Comment Policy
We encourage comments and discussion on our various blogs and message boards. We do not pre-moderate any comments and welcome all kinds of thoughts- supportive, dissenting, critical or otherwise. We do not delete or censor comments unless they have content that: is abusive is off-topic contains ad-hominem attacks promotes hate of any kind uses excessively foul language is blatantly spam is reported as abuse Since we are a faith-based, healthcare organization, this makes a lot of sense to us.
blogs: HP Blogging Code of Conduct
HP blogs are written by a variety of employees at different levels and positions in the company, so you can expect many viewpoints. You can also expect the following: We will strive to have open and honest dialogues with our readers.
For Mayo Clinic Employees « Sharing Mayo Clinic
The following are guidelines for Mayo Clinic employees and students who participate in social media. Social media includes personal blogs and other websites, including Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube or others. These guidelines apply whether employees and students are posting to their own sites or commenting on other sites: Follow all applicable Mayo Clinic policies. For example, you must not share confidential or proprietary information about Mayo Clinic and you must maintain patient privacy. Among the policies most pertinent to this discussion are those concerning patient confidentiality, government affairs, mutual respect, political activity, Computer, E-mail & Internet Use, the Mayo Clinic Integrity Program, photography and video, and release of patient information to media.Write in the first person.
Shutting down social media? Not here.
The following email message was broadcast last week in a Boston hospital. Of course, you can guess my view of this: Any form of communication (even conversations in the elevator!) can violate important privacy rules, but limiting people's access to social media in the workplace will mainly inhibit the growth of community and discourage useful information sharing. It also creates a generational gap, in that Facebook, in particular, is often the medium of choice for people of a certain age. I often get many useful suggestions from staff in their 20's and 30's who tend not to use email. Finally, consider the cost of building and using tools that attempt to "track utilization and monitor content."
Disclosure Best Practices Toolkit
This document is a series of checklists to help companies, their employees, and their agencies create social media policies. Our goal is not to create or propose new industry standards or rules. These checklists are open-source training tools designed to help educate employees on the appropriate ways to interact with the social media community and comply with the law. When we first released the Toolkit in July 2008, many members of the social media community saw these issues as a matter of opinion or intellectual debate. With the FTC’s October 2010 release of the Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising, it’s clear that proper social media ethics are a matter of law, not personal preference. SocialMedia.org’s Three Guides for Safe Social Media Outreach summarizes the fundamental obligations required for marketers to stay safe:
On value and valuation
Over in Fast Company, Tim Beyers nicely threads quotable pearls from Cluetrain‘s four authors, including yours truly, in Twitter’s Investors Missed the Cluetrain – Here’s Why. The context of the story is continued investment in Twitter at a reported $1 billion valuation of the company. (Fast indeed.)
