Social Media Policies
Purpose
- Definitions of social media
- The need for a social media policy
- Applicable to DOSA staff, students and volunteers
Creating Social Media Accounts
- Social Media account owner requirements
- Department Head permission
- Responsibilities of the Social Media Account Owners
- Understand TAC
Content
- Confidentiality and Privacy
- Ferpa
- Propriety and internal information
- Discretion and respect
- Sensitive or disparaging commentary
- Northwestern University logos
- Copyright
- Separation of personal social media
- Commercial and political endorsements
- Third party vendors
- Advertising
- General Business, marketing and communications
Northwestern Policies
- Appropriate use of technology
- Ethics
- Intellectual property
- NU Employee responsibilities
- Student Conduct