--- title: "Friday Buzz: How Strict is Your Social Media Policy?" id: "29804" type: "post" slug: "friday-buzz-how-strict-is-your-social-media-policy" published_at: "2015-08-14T19:50:45+00:00" modified_at: "2026-11-09T17:52:59+00:00" url: "https://associationsnow.com/2015/08/14/friday-buzz-how-strict-is-your-social-media-policy/" markdown_url: "https://associationsnow.com/2015/08/14/friday-buzz-how-strict-is-your-social-media-policy.md" excerpt: "How strict is your association when it comes to controlling what employees are saying online? Plus: Facebook’s (slight) organic boom." taxonomy_category: - "Marketing / Communications" taxonomy_post_tag: - "AssociationsNow" - "Digital Communication" - "Employee Policies" - "Social Media" - "Technology" taxonomy_content_format: - "Article" taxonomy_persona: - "Association Professionals" --- [Home](https://associationsnow.com/) » [Articles](https://associationsnow.com/format/article/) » Friday Buzz: How Strict is Your Social Media Policy? Some companies have a laissez-faire attitude toward monitoring employee activity across the internet, but other organizations take a stricter approach. The struggle between openness and restriction resurfaced this week with the news that video game giant Nintendo [fired a localization editor (opens in a new tab)](http://kotaku.com/nintendo-fires-employee-for-speaking-on-podcast-1723906717) after he appeared on the [Part-Time Gamers podcast (opens in a new tab)](http://www.chaingangmedia.com/ptg76/) . Studies have shown that [employers are increasingly likely to reprimand employees](http://associationsnow.com/2014/06/study-employers-need-for-stricter-social-media-policies-increasing/) who violate social media guidelines. So how can organizations prevent those punishments from being dished out in the first place? Training is one obvious tactic, but as *SocialTimes* contributor [Marcy C. Long (opens in a new tab)](https://twitter.com/MaryCLong) [highlights in this post (opens in a new tab)](http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/how-to-monitor/) , there could be a technical solution. Long explores social media firm [Markr’s (opens in a new tab)](https://markr.is/) Brand Commandr tool, which allows select editors to vet, edit, and improve upon employee posts pertaining to your organization. As she points out: “[A]lthough the online screw-ups your employees make are endlessly entertaining for the rest of us, the cost associated with cleaning one up—and the resulting loss of existing and potential clients—is no laughing matter.” A separate content management system for employee social activity may not be the solution for your association, but the core issue remains: How far should your association go to prevent employee social activity from creating negative impressions? ### Stats of the Day **Notice a small bump in the organic reach**of your organization’s Facebook pages? You’re not alone: [Social media analytics firm Locowise combed through 5,000 pages (opens in a new tab)](http://locowise.com/blog/15-facebook-page-growth-reach-and-engagement-facts-of-summer) to discover that reach increased, albeit in a slight way, across the board in July. ### Other Good Reads **For some Friday Twitter chat exploration,**check out the [#SM4NP (opens in a new tab)](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SM4NP&src=typd) chat from earlier today, [hosted by Social Media for Nonprofits (opens in a new tab)](http://socialmedia4nonprofits.org/twitter-chat-on-twitter-chats/) . The topic was, appropriately enough, Twitter chats! **“Internet comments are awful.”** But is eliminating them from your site entirely the right solution? Librarian and technologist [Jessamyn West (opens in a new tab)](https://twitter.com/jessamyn) explores the “system failure” of bad comments in [this post on Medium (opens in a new tab)](https://medium.com/message/bad-comments-are-a-system-failure-932e6961bbc2) . **With Google’s reorganization**and the creation of the holding company Alphabet, what lies in the future for YouTube? *Los Angeles Times* reporter [Saba Hamedy (opens in a new tab)](https://twitter.com/saba_h?lang=en) [takes a look (opens in a new tab)](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-google-youtube-alphabet-future-20150814-story.html) . (Ellagrin/ThinkStock) [Morgan Little](https://associationsnow.com/author/morgan-little/) Morgan Little is a contributor to Associations Now. 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