Discussion
ITS 833 – INFORMATION
GOVERNANCE
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Chapter 13 Information Governance for Social Media
CHAPTER GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
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Be able to discuss uses of social medial for
business and government
What is Web 2.0? How is it different?
What are some categories of social media platforms? Examples of each
Give examples of tools used to archive social
media
What is the difference between static and dynamic social media content
Legally what is required with regard to the capture, storage and archival of social medial content by an organization?
What are the rules for record retention of social media records?
What are the record retention guidelines for social media records?
What is enterprise social media?
What is the difference between an inward vs. outward facing social media site?
What are the ways in which social media is the same and is different from things like e- mail and IM?
What are the advantages and risks of social media in the organization?
List key social medial guidelines that all organizations should follow regardless of industry
What is meant by spoliation of evidence?
Give an overview of the best practices that are evolving for social media records
Uses for Social Media in the Public and Private Sector
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Corporate Use:
Create visible branding
Strengthen relations with customers
Attract new customers
Highlight and advertise their products and services
Collect information used in decision making
Government Use:
Consult with and engage citizens
Provide services
Keep pace with fast moving events
Facilitate communication and collaboration
Improve Employee Engagement
Boost productivity and Efficiency
ALTERNATIVES FOR BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT
Internal Social Media:
Helps employees collaborate and communicate more effectively and efficiently
WEB 2.0 What is it?
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2nd Generation WWW. Uses new technology to allow consumers to participate, collaborate and share information online
Characterizes the change from passive web sites to interactive web sites.
Wikis
Blogs
Podcasts
Outward facing public Web vs. Inward facing Web
SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS
Content management
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Web Publishing-Platforms for creating, publishing and reuse content
Microblogs
Blogs
Wikis
Mashups
Social Networking – Platforms for interactions and collaboration between users
Tools (Face book Linked-in)
Social Bookmarks
Virtual World
Crowdsourcing
File Sharing/Storage – Platform for file sharing and host content storage
Photo Library
Storage
SOCIAL MEDIA IN ENTERPRISE
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Outward Facing, consumer based social media is still the most popular used in enterprises today
Business is “torn” or in a quandary as to how to use it to its fullest while
focusing on security
Enterprise Social Networking
Options are becoming available that includes social-media like software for the private network
Need to develop metrics
Advantages of Enterprise Social Media
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Being able to store large document in cloud saves assets
Better customer relations and customer service
Better able to recruit and retain high quality employees
Social Media V. E-Mail and IM
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Similar - All share the same function – shared content, communications and collaboration
Different – Reliance on in-house implementation i.e. more control – Better adaptation to specific needs
Difference – Platform where they lie – Less IG and records management problems
Difference – Policies and protocols are required to be reviewed and changed more often
Difference – Content sharing as endorsements or rejections (retweets, likes, etc)
RISKS OF SOCIAL MEDIA
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Users are unsure of the results of their actions – that is, employees may be exposing information that is not meant for public consumption
Organizations are powerless to control use of social media by employees
Lack of social media policy
Employee threats – both accidental and intentional
More far reaching impact of negative employee conduct
LEGAL RISKS OF SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS
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Exposure to liability is massive –In 2013 there was over 558 million active twitter users and over 58 million posts per day.
Create specific policies on when, where, from what account, and whom can post on behalf of the organization
Create a specific policy with regard to what kids of things an employees can do on the company’s behalf. What topics are they required to stay away from
Create a records management policy for social medial posts
ARCHIVAL OF SOCIAL MEDIA - Required if used by the Organization
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Jolicloud – file system approach (Facebook, Twitter, Instagam)
Slurps
Jolidrive – Ability to edit
SocialFolder – ability to save on your computer
TwInbox –MS Outlook plugin that archives Twitter
TweetTake – Archives Tweets
CONVERSION TO PDF
PDF995
PrimoPDF
Nuance Software
SOLUTIONS FOR LINKEDIN
PUBLIC SOLUTIONS for FaceBook
Facebook page settings
Plug-in for Foxfire browser
ArchiveFacebook – to your hard drive
SocialSafe (small fee)
PageFreezer (small fee)
Wayback Machine (small fee)
SocialSafe (small fee)
PageFreezer (small fee)
Wayback Machine (small fee)
IG CONSIDERATIONS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA
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Social Media Policy Guidelines
Customized for your organization
Look at standards and policies in other organizations in your industry
Expansive policies
Operational Guidelines
Boundaries for use
Consequences for Violations
New Evolving Best Practices for Social Media Governance
Industry Specific considerations
Use cross section of functional
units to develop policy
Key Social Media Policy Guidelines
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Specify who has authority to create social media accounts for organization
Specifies who can speak on behalf of the organization
Describes the negative impact of poorly considered posts
Draws clear distinction between personal and business use of social media
Specifies whether personal access is allowed on company site and if so what type
Underscores that employees DO NOT have a reasonable expectation of privacy
Clearly states what is allowed on organization’s behalf and what is forbidden
Instructs to always avoid engaging in company confidential and controversial conversations
Encourages/requires employees to include standard disclaimer that their view is not shared by organization
Forbids use of profanity and encourages use of professional business tone
Outlines clear punishment and negative actions for violating policy
Draws clear rules about the use of the company’s name and/or its logo
RECORDS MANAGEMENT AND LITIGATION CONCERNS
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REMEMBER! Legal requirements trumps all other concerns
U.S. Corporations are required to preserve social media including its metadata and associated linked content, FRCP 34
Not all social media posts are “records”.
All social media posts are electronically stored information
Social media posts are ALL discoverable
Must have legally defensible records
retention policy in place
Must store metadata, hyperlinks, and the external content – in its native form
Preserve post, metadata, hyperlink and external native data in real time
Use Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to capture the contents in real time
Static (example, Facebook Profile) and Dynamic social media content (example, Facebook “like”– Capture dynamic in real time
All social media posts that meets record status should be moved to a repository in an electronic records management system application
Rules for Electronic Records
Management should be applied
ERM SYSTEM RULES TO APPLY TO SOCIAL MEDIA RECORDS THAT QUALIFY AS A RECORD
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Mark it as read-on
Protect it from tampering
File it against organization’s taxonomy for categorization
Mark record as vital record
Assign disposal rules to record
Freeze or unfreeze disposal rule for the record
Apply access and security controls to the record
Execute disposal processing (an administrative function)
Maintain organizational/historical metadata
Provide a history/audit trail
RECORD RETENTION GUIDELINES FOR SOCIAL MEDIA RECORDS
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Make Record Threashold determination- Look at content. Is it a record by your own organizational definition of a record?
Apply existing Records Retention Schedules if they apply-inIf you already have a records retention schedule for similar records (example, e-mail) apply the same schedule unless there is a legal reason not to.
Apply basic content management principles-focus on capturing all related content for the post including associated conversation threads and metadata for context and for legal discovery
Risk avoidance in content creation – Emphasize to employees that if they put it out there it may be discoverable, and at the end of its life it is nearly impossible to completely destroy all evidence of it.
BEST PRACTICES FOR MANAGING SOCIAL MEDIA RECORDS
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Identify social media records during the social media planning stage – If someone in the organization is proposing a new initiative complete forms to indicate if new records are created
Promote cross-functional communications – Include representatives from different
functional areas
Require consultation in policy development – Get feedback from stakeholders
Establish clear rules and responsibilities-make sure everyone knows the expectations, what is expected of each user, their responsibilities and establish who is accountable to whom
Utilize content management principles-management of content should be a part of the ECM software implementation
Implement RM Functionality-make sure ECM or RM software includes a function to enable records retention, disposition, legal holds and release of legal holds
BEST PRACTICES FOR MANAGING SOCIAL MEDIA
RECORDS…continued
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Control the content- have a monitoring mechanism in place to manage content before it gets published to the Web
Capture Content in real time-can more easily prove it is authentic from a legal perspective
Champion search capabilities-The technology that captures and preserves the content and metadata must have the capability to search
Train!!!!- You must train users and make sure they are aware of the implications of social medial posting
The End
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