Why Every Business Should Have a Social Media Policy
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Social Media Policies – Why Every Business Should Have a Social Media Policy
BlandsLaw offers specialist risk management legal advice to corporations regarding their strategy, implementation and management of social media. This enables companies to benefit from using social media while minimising the inherent risks.
Postings on Facebook and the general use of social networking sites by individuals to display their displeasure with employers, employees and coworkers are becoming common. Nearly every business is affected by it. Even a business that doesn’t make use of social media for recruiting or branding purposes can be affected by what others post about it, including their own employees. And unless employees have clear guidance to tell them what type of social media posting is acceptable and what is not, they may think they have free reign to post whatever they want, including information about the company. This could pose create a liability for you.
Why use a specialist Social Media lawyer?
Social media is a complex area of expertise, encompassing several key areas of law, and is best managed by a law firm that fully understands all the commercial implications. As BlandsLaw has extensive expertise in workplace and commercial law and is an active user of social media, we consider ourselves well placed to advise companies on the many aspects of social media.
Social media is a complex area of expertise, encompassing several key areas of law, and is best managed by a reputable law firm that fully understands all the commercial implications.
My Social Policies Packages
To see which MySocialPolicies Package best meets your business requirements, click on the links below
Who It’s For
For Sole Traders or businesses with 1-10 employees. No training included and not customised
What You Get
- A standard policy covering access,
- Responsibility,
- Privacy,
- Brand integrity and protection,
- Authority limits,
- Acceptable and unacceptable behaviour,
- Monitoring and
- Customer relations guidelines.
Customised Social Media Policy
Who It’s For
For businesses with 10-150 employees who are active in Social Media or plan to be.
What You Get
A completely customised Social Media Policy to suit your individual company, industry and employees. The policy is completely tailored to your business only by specialist employment law firm BlandsLaw. No training in-house included.
Social Media Policy & Management
Who It’s For
For businesses with 50-150 employees who take Social Media seriously and actively engage online within the company
What You Get
A completely customised Social Media Policy to suit your individual company, industry and employees. The policy is fully tailored to your business and brand by Employment Law specialists BlandsLaw. The management package also includes in-house training where the key people within your organisation are trained on all areas of your Social Media Policy and its ongoing management. Alternatively, BlandsLaw can provide training to all company employees, usually done on a departmental basis to cover specific risk management issues that may be faced.
Total Social Media Policy Risk Management
Who It’s For
For businesses with 50-150 Employees who regard Social Media as a major component
of their business and their brand is highly visible online.
What You Get
A completely customised Social Media Policy to suit your individual company, industry and employees. The policy is fully tailored to your business and brand by Employment Law specialists BlandsLaw. The management package also includes the option of in-house training for key people within your organisation who are trained on all areas of your Social Media Policy or training for all company employees, usually done on a departmental basis to cover specific risk management issues that may be faced.
Social Media Contractor Policy
Who It’s For
Contractors, Sub-Contractors, Freelancers, Interns, Community Managers, Marketing Temps, Social Media Temps, or anyone who sets up, created, updates, guest posts, or manages someone else’s Social Media account.
What You Get
A standard policy covering access, responsibility, privacy, brand integrity, accountability, login management and protection, authority limits, acceptable and unacceptable behaviour, monitoring and customer relations guidelines.
MySocialPolicy is an entity of BlandsLaw who are experts in workplace law as well as being active industry leaders in the use of social media.
What people are saying:
“I worked with the team at BlandsLaw for MySocialPolicy at CropLife Australia. They offered an extensive, flexible and diverse social media policy for our agricultural and policy driven company. One of the greatest assets in working with BlandsLaw was that they “preach what they teach”. In this regard, they didn’t just offer a service, but also actively engage in social media on a regular basis. Another sensational aspect was the depth, understanding and expertise of their staff. Tailoring a social media policy specifically to fit our company needs is integral to the cohesive structure of our business. Through simple and regular interactions, we were able to create and enact a successful social media policy that is currently seeing our company take new and exciting leaps forward. They made the process of ‘dipping our toe into the ‘social media pool’ effortless. ” Thomas Whitty, Communications & Campaign Manager, Croplife Australia