Comments on: Don’t Let Sloppy Social Media Practices Damage Your Brand

By: S. Farnan

S. Farnan — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:15:36 +0000

This article is true and organizations have to realize the importance of setting guidelines. The organization I work for opened up LinkedIn and Facebook pages. Of course, LinkedIn provides areas for forums and discussions and as a e-newsletter editor, I was going to troll these discussions for possible story leads and possible sources. But I came to find out (before I made any contact with anyone) that my company believes that such an act would be intrusive of the social media spaces and its intentions and they had some guidelines about how to approach discussion participants as possible sources.

By: gfsnell3

gfsnell3 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:17:21 +0000

Hi No_Jedi:
It can be frustrating, but perhaps you can ask your managers for training? If they begin to get requests from their staff they may be responsive. It certainly doesn’t hurt to ask.

By: No_Jedi

No_Jedi — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:34:03 +0000

Hrrmph… my company thinks social media is sharing the morning edition of the wall street journal… which is why we are doing nothing on the web… nothing…sigh.