Andrew Mitton

I’ve read lots of poli­cies intended for peo­ple who prob­a­bly never read them.  Why don’t they read them?  Because of the dreaded legalese dis­ease.  I’ve never seen a pol­icy writ­ten in a con­ver­sa­tional tone — a tone that speaks like a human.  Until today.

Thank you Linda Skrock — the Senior Engi­neer­ing Pro­gram Manager/Owner of Sun Microsys­tems who writes about cor­po­rate social media poli­cies.  She takes a very com­mon sense approach.  For exam­ple, she says: “Is it really worth sac­ri­fic­ing hun­dreds of thou­sands of fruit­ful con­ver­sa­tions because we’re afraid of a pos­si­ble nasty conversation?”

Good ques­tion.  How many com­pa­nies have missed out on the ben­e­fits of social media because they think it’s too risky.  When the real­ity is that all the ben­e­fits of social media far out­weigh the few times where an employee will abuse the priv­i­lege.  So look to Sun as an exam­ple of how to do things and take a look at their social media pol­icy.