Examples of Social Media Guidelines for Churches
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How-To Create a Social Media Policy for Your Church
When I raised the question earlier this calendar month as to whether or not y'all should exist Facebook friends with your pastor, the overall consensus was that a Church (or organization) should certainly consider a social media policy.
There are two different approaches you lot can take.
- Create a Social Media Policy
- Create Social Media Guidelines
Basically, a policy is something you require staff members to read, sign and adhere to. Guidelines are unproblematic rules that everyone is ask to follow.
Essentially they are the same, except your policy can take more teeth (crusade for termination, probation, etc …).
Here is a great tool for creating a social media policy and a bones social media guideline to assistance you lot craft and deploy your own!
How-To Create a Social Media Policy
PolicyTool for Social Media is an excellent resource.
Via their website, PolicyTool guides you through xi questions:
- Enter your organizations name.
- Enter what your organization is normally know as.
- Who can use social media in your company? Everybody or Specific individuals?
- Must employees obtain permission to use social media?
- May employee login ID's or user names include the organisation's proper name without approval?
- Are in that location well know employees who must follow these rules, even for personal social media?
- Are at that place any ethical standards that your employees must normally follow for publishing or commentary?
- Is there internal assistance in setting up social media accounts and settings?
- Must the user's social media profiles be consequent with the organizations website or publications?
- Must official photos exist used for contour photos?
- Should the employee include a disclaimer stating that they are not speaking on behalf of the organizaion?
- Add tips for successful use of social media that are helpful, just not strictly speaking required for this policy.
Equally you tin can meet, this is very exhaustive!
After you create your policy, you lot tin can deploy it equally you see fit. Set-upwardly a form that staff must sign and engagement, create an online grade, or integrate it yet you come across fit.
Check-out PolicyTool. It's costless and easy to use!
[HT: Alexandra]
How-To Create Social Media Guidelines
Accept a look at these guidelines. It should certainly get yous moving in the right direction.
Recommended Practices and Guidelines for Interactions with Children and Youth:
Social Networking Sites-Relationships
- Adults who minister to children and youth are strongly encouraged to prepare very stringent privacy settings on any social networking profile. Individual personal profiles are to be used to collaborate with real friends, family unit and peers. Adults should not submit "friend" requests to minors or youth.
- If an adult chooses to accept friend requests from minors or youth who are associated with their community of religion, other adult leaders must accept full access to all aspects of that adult's profile and correspondence.
- Adults who want to connect via a social networking website with youth to whom they minister are strongly encouraged to set up upwards a closed grouping account that youth may join. Youth requesting to "friend" an developed can then exist invited to join this group rather than be accustomed as a friend on an adult'due south personal profile account. The purpose of these two separate accounts/profiles is to create a line of privacy and maintain healthy boundaries with youth and existent family, friends and colleagues.
- Any material on any site (whether affiliated with the church or not) that raises suspicion that a child has been or volition be abused/neglected/exploited should be immediately reported to the (Person In Authorization Hither). If the material is on a church affiliated site, that material should be documented for church records and and so removed from the site after consultation with (Person In Authority Here) and/or police. The (Person In Authority Hither) Telephone is (PHONE Number Hither).
Recommended Practices and Guidelines for Interactions with Adults:
Social Networking Sites-Relationship
- Ministers are strongly encouraged to set very stringent privacy settings on whatsoever social networking profile to shield both adult and youth members from viewing content that may be inappropriate.
- Ministers who desire to connect via a social networking website with church members are strongly encouraged to gear up upwardly a group account that all congregation members may join. (ie Church Fan Page or Facebook Grouping) The purpose of having a personal contour is to create a line of privacy and maintain healthy boundaries with church members and real family, friends and colleagues.
- Ministers should consider the affect of declining a "friend" request from church members. These encounters may create a tension in "existent earth" relationships. Ministers can direct "friend" requests from church members to the church'southward grouping page. (Please refer to the tutorial on how to send church members to your fan page)
- Government minister'southward who piece of work directly with youth are encouraged to establish church building sponsored digital communications groups to maintain contact with youth members. (ie church building email)
- When a Minister leaves his ministry at the church building, it is recommended the minister remove church building members as "friends" or contacts in all forms of digital communications.
[Guidelines via Become Your Church building Fan Page]
Ready?
If you have any helpful resource, links, or suggestions, please drib the states a link in the comments!
Are you ready to create and deploy a social media policy or ready of social media guidelines for your Church or organization?
[Epitome via Khalid Albaih]
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