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Good Examples of Social Media Policies for Your Ministry

Posted by John Saddington on Sep 21, 2009

Here’s a great list of examples covering social media governance and policies by a wide range of businesses.

If you’ve been looking for some help, guidance, or examples, this would be the place to start. I personally don’t know of any ministries that have an explicitly outlined policy although where I work we have had some verbal counsel and coverage through our all-staff meetings.

Is this something your ministry or organization is going to be developing in the coming months? Do you see a need for one? Why or why not?

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch.He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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6 Responses to “Good Examples of Social Media Policies for Your Ministry”

  1. Jake Johnson
    Monday, September 21, 2009 at 6:32 pm

    We have a lite written policy on both blogging and social media usage. Basically we ask our team to keep their personal accounts in line with the values of the church, and we warn them about the legal liabilities you have when you blog. I'd like to have a more comprehensive policy eventually, but we've not really seen the need for it yet.

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    • human3rror
      Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 1:25 pm

      cool, i think you're among many here.

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  2. gabehoffman
    Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 1:05 am

    I was just working on this very thing today. Thanks.

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  3. Andy L
    Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 2:21 pm

    These are definitely needed in churches – I'm currently working on a whole media ministry program (to include social media) for our church. It's a lot of work and I'm not even a staff person just a volunteer.

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  4. Jonah
    Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 3:34 am

    Makes sense. It makes sense because social media/social networking CAN bring controversy and things CAN get out of control. So like everything, the guidelines are there to keep you on track.

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