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I was curious how other organizations (specifically higher education, but I am curious how all companys do it) handle facebook pages for users in the public eye.

Do they have two seperate accounts, one that is extreemly locked down and hidden for personal and one professional? Or do they just concede to the fact that they cannot have a personal page? Other ideas or suggestions?


Sosipater
Mace
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Sosipater

We recommend that any of our Student Services staff have a facebook account, but require that it is a professional account separate from their personal one. We also do not allow (by policy, it isn't really policed) them to connect with current students on their personal Facebook accounts. That being said no one does any checking to make sure that this is followed.

Regarding the upper management it hasn't been an issue thus far since most of them aren't interested in FB.

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Matt...
Chipotle
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Matt...

Any and all employees can have any kind of social networking they would like, but if it's found they use them for leaking company info, they are toast.

 

I have not seen any of the execs with facebook pages. I've seen marketers with them though, since it's a tool for them.

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Sosipater
Mace
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Sosipater

We recommend that any of our Student Services staff have a facebook account, but require that it is a professional account separate from their personal one. We also do not allow (by policy, it isn't really policed) them to connect with current students on their personal Facebook accounts. That being said no one does any checking to make sure that this is followed.

Regarding the upper management it hasn't been an issue thus far since most of them aren't interested in FB.

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WMU-SA-Helpdesk
Poblano
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WMU-SA-Helpdesk

We had an exec that got facebook for getting in touch with friends from college, but is getting friend requests from professional contacts. It is not that they have anything inappropriate on their page, but they don't really want to share all of the pictures they are tagged in my their 10 year old niece with the world either. I know it could be managed with privacy settings and user groups, but that takes more management than I think they would have time for. So, 130 mixed "friends" later, we need to decide where to go from here.

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GwendolynRose
Cayenne
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GwendolynRose

My recommendation would be for the exec to send the professional contacts a PM politely refusing the friend request and directing them to their professional facebook page. as for the current professional "friends", again, send them a PM or post on the wall that you are removing them as friends from your personal account, but they can add your professional account to their friend list.

I would always recommend that anyone with professional contacts on facebook keep 2 separate accounts. Whether or not this goes against facebooks policies, is another question, but I don't think there would be any problems.

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