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It’s 2013: Where’s your nonprofit’s social media policy?

ASU Lodestar Center

Should you change your nonprofit’s Facebook profile image to show support of a hot political issue? Having a social media policy in place will help you answer these questions, and inform you or your social media manager on what to do in similar situations. What’s in a social media policy? Click here to follow us on Facebook.

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Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) Protect You and Your Organization

Tech Soup

An acceptable usage policy (AUP) is a set of rules applied by the. The AUP is an integral part of security policies for businesses, universities, schools, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and website. while employees check their Facebook pages or surf eBay for a deal. In short, a policy ensures that every user understands that.

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Great reads from around the web on October 18th

Amy Sample Ward

And where you stand on the discussion of copyright, digital rights, online content sharing and intellectual property? Facebook in Online Privacy Breach; Applications Transmitting Identifying Information – WSJ.com – "Many of the most popular applications, or "apps," on the social-networking site Facebook Inc.

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Does Your Nonprofit Need Legal Counsel About Using Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the past couple of years as I’ve guide nonprofits in preparing their social media policies or when I speak, I get asked questions that are more legal questions than about social media. Here’s a sampling: Our organization does advocacy around some policy issues. Can we post their photos on Facebook or our Web Site?

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Social Media Usage Guidelines: Don't moon people with cameras (or at least hide your face when you do)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, I attended a webinar about social media policies called " E-Privacy: Can You Legally Monitor MySpace, LinkedIn, E-mail, & Blogs? The Webinar was mostly focused on the privacy concerns and the Human Resources side of Internet/Social Media Policies. Beth: Do you have a social media policy at your foundation?

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How Sticky is Facebook? - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

60) Search « Converting New Activists into Donors | Main | Five Tips to Engaging New Online Activists » Thursday Jun 11 2009 How Sticky is Facebook? Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 01:28PM | by Allyson Kapin Facebook is the 5th most trafficked site in the United States. Do you think Facebook is sticky?

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Can I Use That Video on My Website?

Tech Soup

Once you create a video, it is automatically copyrighted and you have full rights to it, unless stated otherwise by a sharing service. YouTube currently has just two primary copyright types: Conventional copyright, in which the creator has full rights. Vimeo has a section for Creative Commons-copyrighted videos.

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