Category: employee relations

  • FTC Gets Tough on Social Media Disclosure

    In response to the US Federal Trade Commission’s first settlement with an advertiser over a failure to comply with the FTC’s Dotcom Disclosure Guidelines, Comply Socially has released a Social Media Disclosure & Transparency certification program to help advertisers and brand marketers mitigate the risks of provoking deceptive advertising claims.

  • It Wasn’t Culture that Ate Strategy for Lunch…

    Hungry? Good. It’s time to eat. But we won’t be serving 90-day strategies, or corporate culture.  We’re eating governance. Don’t glaze over.  It’s much tastier than you think. You see, while you were at the off-site strategic communications planning session, governance grew up. That’s right.  In the age of the shared digital customer journey, governance…

  • HOW TO: Document Social Media Policy Violations [PODCAST]

    [audio:http://ontherecordpodcast.com/pr/otro/electronic/How_To_Document_Social_Media_Policy_Violations.mp3] The number of social media policy violations by employees has doubled over the last 16 months, according to the 2014 Social Media in the Workplace Survey. Ann Handley didn’t violate anyone’s social media policy, and those aren’t schadenfreude likes from Beth, Shel and Richard. They’re only there to demonstrate what kind of screen capture…

  • Angry Tweet Infuriates Kansas Board of Regents

    When state legislators threatened to cut funding to the University of Kansas because a journalism professor sent out an angry tweet blaming the NRA for the Washington Navy Yard Shooting, the Kansas Board of Regents issued a Draconian social media policy to try and deter faculty and staff from saying anything that could encite scrutiny…