Thank you for joining our group! This group, created and organized by Laura Bergus and the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI), is a means of:

1. discussing the issues involved in formulating a set of guiding principles and advice for schools to give to their social media users,
2. organizing those who are interested,
3. deciding where to go from here, and
4. putting it all together in a set of social media best practices for law schools.

Here's a draft/example policy for staff use social-media-policy-draft-lbergus.doc

The University of Kansas' agreed to share its Facebook Policy.

View the presentation materials for new students from The University of Iowa College of Law.

Find social media in law school survey results attached to this forum post.

If you missed the CALI Webinar about Social Media Best Practices for Law Schools, you should view it here.


Meg Kribble's notes from the alumni relations session of the Social Media Best Practices workshop session at CALIcon09 SocialMediaBestPractices-Alumni.doc

See recommendations for Students, Staff & Employers over at smbp.laurabergus.com

Resources for institutional use

When your law school is developing a social media plan or policies for use, these resources may be helpful. (In no particular order.)

• Beth Kanter has a blog and wiki devoted to critical issues in social media for non-profits (extremely useful in the government/institutional context as well) http://beth.typepad.com/
• A comprehensive toolkit from the Blog Council for addressing key social media policy issues and writing policy http://blogcouncil.org/disclosure/
• Compilation of links to 40 staff-oriented social media policies http://laurelpapworth.com/enterprise-list-of-40-social-media-staff-guidelines/
• Know the extent to which your school can limit its employees' use of social media in and outside the workplace (specific to blogging but applicable to other forms of social media participation) http://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/labor
• A useful flowchart for making institutional social media policy decisions http://www.mindomo.com/view.htm?m=5d005d7f82ae13f1a4e7ae756afe900a
• Law.com's recommendations for what to weigh and what to include in making social media policy http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/
• A list of metrics for helping measure social media interactions http://www.thesocialorganization.com/social-media-metrics.html
• Basic considerations for social media policy and links to many example policies http://wiki.altimetergroup.com/page/Social+Media+Policies
• DePaul University's guidelines for social media use http://brandresources.depaul.edu/vendor_guidelines/g_recommendation.aspx
• Dave Fleet's suggestions for internal social media policy http://davefleet.com/2009/05/social-media-policies-company-internal-policies/
• Aaron Rester's slideshow presentation to eduWeb conference on Twitter as Higher Education Communications Tool http://www.slideshare.net/arester/a-bird-in-the-hand-using-twitter-as-a-higher-ed-communications-tool
• Example blogging policy and blogger's code of ethics http://blogs.forrester.com/groundswell/2004/11/blogging_policy.html
• Need to know when to respond to a post about your school? Try following the Air Force's flowchart, linked here: http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/12/31/diagram-how-the-air-force-response-to-blogs/
• Gartner's public web participation guideliens http://blogs.gartner.com/gartner-public-web-participation-guidelines/
• Sun Microsystems' straightforward policy for employee social media use http://www.sun.com/communities/guidelines.jsp
• The United Kingdom's Civil Service website's straightforward policy on social media participation for its employees http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/about/work/codes/participation-online.aspx