Review Of The BBC’s New Social Networking Guidelines

DACHIS GROUP COLLABORATORY — My former employer, the BBC, has issued new guidelines for the official use of third party social networking and micro-blogging services. The new guidelines should not be confused with the guidelines issued several years ago on the personal use of blogging and social networking sites by BBC staff but instead are intended to cover official, albeit non-contractual, BBC activities on third party websites. I was originally interested in reviewing the new guidelines because I saw a tweet last week that said...