Comments on: A No-Nonsense Guide for Government Employees on Social Networks

By: Why North Americans Will Get Government 2.0 and Europeans Won’t

Why North Americans Will Get Government 2.0 and Europeans Won’t — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:56:16 +0000

[...] collaboration, the urgency of empowering employees besides (or rather than) citizens, the need for simple and enforceable social media policy that cover employee behaviors both on corporate network and elsewhere. For many, my examples of how [...]

By: Social Media Cannot Deliver Business Value If Employees Are Denied Access

Social Media Cannot Deliver Business Value If Employees Are Denied Access — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:46:25 +0000

[...] posts about whether governments should use consumer tools for social networking, and looked at how codes of conduct for the use of social policies are easier than many think. I’ve also come across multiple cases where consumer social media are already mission-critical [...]

By: Governments on Facebook Are Off The Records

Governments on Facebook Are Off The Records — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:58:37 +0000

[...] on their web sites they are “on the records”. Still they need to meet the obligations of their codes of conduct, but clearly there is much more room for maneuver on a non-government social media [...]

By: links for 09-06-06

links for 09-06-06 — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:40:10 +0000

[...] A No-Nonsense Guide for Government Employees on Social Networks – “Government employees already sign into a pretty limiting code of conduct when they get hired. There are rules about how they deal with information, how they deal with the public, how they deal with the press, what they can and cannot say. Social networks are just a different channel, but do not present any new challenge.” [...]

By: Italian Directive on Internet Use in the Public Sector Sets A Worst Practice

Italian Directive on Internet Use in the Public Sector Sets A Worst Practice — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:00:22 +0000

[...] by just reminding the obligations contained in their civil service codes of conduct (see my earlier post), the Italian minister takes a very different [...]

By: Andrea Di Maio

Andrea Di Maio — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:39:04 +0000

Comment received from an Australian official on Facebook:

We also did some of these for Australian Government Employees – also modelled on the Australian Governments Code of Conduct http://webpublishing.agimo.gov.au/Protocols_for_Online_Media_Participation

By: Citizen-Driven Government Must Be Employee-Centric, Too

Citizen-Driven Government Must Be Employee-Centric, Too — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:49:50 +0000

[...] is that this does not require new laws, directives, procedures to be started. As a matter of fact, the code of conduct for civil servants is often more than enough to set the boundaries of what they can and cannot [...]

By: Matt Lane (SSC)

Matt Lane (SSC) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:57:03 +0000

Thank you for your complimentary words on the Principles. There was no reason in our minds why our existing Code of conduct for the State Services did not apply to new media. For this reason we simply tried to address the single new ambiguity that social media raises: what capacity is the contributor is speaking in?

By: Andrea Di Maio

Andrea Di Maio — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:33:29 +0000

I received through Facebook a useful contribution with a reference to what the Australian Government did last year: http://www.apsc.gov.au/circulars/circular088.htm. Same principles but just a longer text to remind people about specific aspects.