Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Social
Media
Risks - A
Business
Perspecti
ve
Workplace lawsuits
Regulatory audits and fines
Security breaches
Lost productivity
Brands and financial institutions bashed
credibility, accountholders and revenue
loss
Career setbacks and employee
terminations
Professional and personal humiliation
Media scrutiny and PR nightmares
50
%
Blog
attacks
sponsored
competitors
.
50
%
Fear losing
control of
corporate
message.
22%
22%
Case
Casein
in Point
Point
Following Dallas
Mavericks-San
Antonio Spurs
game, radio host
fired for
tweeting:
Congrats to all
the dirty
Mexicans in San
Antonio.
Virgin Atlantic
fired 13 crew
members for
using Facebook
to post jokes
about faulty
engines,
cockroachinfested planes,
and passengers.
Canadian grocery
chain Farm Boy
fired 6
employees for
creating
Facebook gripe
site, I Got Farm
Boyd. Mocked
consumers and
verbally
assaulted staff.
Microsoft
employee fired
for posting photo
of Apple
computers at
Microsoft loading
dock.
Deltas Queen of
the Sky fired for
suggestive
photos in flight
attendant
uniform.
+Educate
Employees
About
Risks and
Policies
+Enforce
Policies
with
Discipline
and
Technology
The 3E
approach:
3-Step Formula
for Framing Social Media Policies
#1. PreWriting:
Conduct
Policy
Audit
#2. Writing:
Create
Effective
Policies
#3. PostWriting:
Manage
Policy
Complianc
e
All organizations need social media, mobile device and other epolicies.
Audit business and personal useat the office, at home or on
the road.
Go
Beyond
Collecti
ng
Feedba
ck
Conduc
t Policy
Audits
Internal social
media (business
sites, systems,
accounts).
And
Finall
y
Mobile devices:
personal and
financial institutionowned.
Monito
r Social
Media
Base monitoring
decisions on legal,
regulatory, business,
ethical and corporate
culture considerations.
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