I am increasingly hearing organisations asking for a social media policy to be drawn up. It’s great to have a policy on important issues, but what do you do then? if your staff don’t actually understand your policy then it’s just a waste of time, paper and money.
#Think. If the policy is important enough to be written then surely it must be worth training your staff so that they understand it too?
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Four Simple Ways to Ruin Your On-line Reputation This Holiday
Communication tools have developed so fast that a large percentage of our adult population simply do not understand the consequences of sharing on social media. A policy certainly helps, but just drawing up a policy for people to sign does not mean that they understand the implications. It will cover the employer, but an employee losing their job, or accidentally publishing something on line that is harmful to the organisation is still costly all round.
Creating Role Models For Change
Together with Digienable, we have just run the first all female led social media conference here in Lancashire. This is why..
7 Top Ways to Get More Likes on Facebook – And 2 Things to Definitely Avoid
How do I get more Likes on Facebook is one of the most common questions that I get asked in training, so I am sharing some top tips..
Lancashire’s Social Media for Women Conference 2013 – Creating Positive Role Models
Press release Ten social media experts will be sharing their knowledge with a new generation of women entrepreneurs at a conference later this year. Lancashire businesses DigiEnable and Jane’s Social Media have teamed up to empower female businesses across the North West by setting up the county’s first women-led social media conference. ‘Social Media for […]
Getting Seen – Again
In February we ran Getting Seen in Lancaster. Getting Seen 2 is in Garstang in October In February this year a team of us ran Getting Seen, a marketing master-class for organisations who do their marketing in-house. This came about because we were hearing heartbreaking stories of small businesses wasting literally thousands of pounds […]
The Etiquette of the Twitter #Hours
Understanding etiquette of the social media platforms is pretty important. This blog is about the etiquette of the increasingly popular Twitter #Hours
Do your employees understand your Social Media Policy? Do you?
As a result of hearing about so many costly mistakes by organisations and employees on social media, I took a look at existing social media policies. I have a background in policy myself so I know all about what happens to those wordy documents. As a new member of staff you are bombarded with paper work and have to have them signed and returned within days. If they get read we are lucky. If they are understood it’s a miracle!
Advice for parents on Facebook and Your Child, from the real experts – our teenagers!
A group of teenagers from Lancaster and Morecambe College share their top 12 tips for parents to keep their children safe on Facebook.
6 Great Blogging Tips For New Bloggers
6 top action points from our Blogging for Beginners workshop.