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Social Media Ownership (6 posts)

Topic tags: blogging, ownership, rights

Glen Gorham said
1 year, 4 months ago:
This is going to be important in regards to ownership of social media when work gets involved. There are those of you who will be interested in both sides of this coin. This is involving a twitter account which can be a bit ambiguous if a company name is not used for the twitter handle. The link goes to CNN, bit.ly is just easier than the ugly link: http://bit.ly/sbGggQ
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Kristi Hines said
1 year, 4 months ago:
@glengorham Thanks for sharing. I think in Noah’s case, even though he created the account with his personal email and tweeted on his personal time, the account was obviously branded to the company. I think going forward though, when companies have employees sign contracts, there should be a clause that states either company will give employees social account to be used for business purposes only. And, for employee protection, any social accounts belonging to the employee prior to employment or created by the employee during their employment for personal reasons will be exempt from company control, usage, or procurement.
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Cindy Still said
1 year, 4 months ago:
@glengorham @kristi-hines
Ownership of social media is an important consideration. Especially when most social media accounts are also tied to a person, even facebook business pages. I have made an effort to keep work info separated enough so if I were to separate employment the pages I manage can easily be transferred.
On a side note even if it is your personal page one should be careful what they post. I had a co-worker post a deragtory comment about her boss on her personal page, that became fairly public and was the cause for her termination.
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Glen Gorham said
1 year, 4 months ago:
This is still a brave new world for many companies out there. I bet they will be watching this without a nuanced eye and this could have interesting results. But great commentary @cyndos and @kristi-hines thanks for the input!
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Paul Wilson said
1 year, 4 months ago:
What I find fundamentally wrong is how corporations try to control the conversation. I know this case is a little different, but social doesn’t become very social when everything is controlled!
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Kristi Hines said
1 year, 4 months ago:
@cyndos Definitely Cindy. My advice is to never post anything on the Internet (social media or your blog) that you wouldn’t want written on a billboard with your name & photo next to it for attribution. That includes ripping on your boss! :)
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