Sun Micro posts updated social guidelines

Some days after IBM released our Social Computing Guidelines, Sun Micro has done the same.  They too have moved from ‘policy’ to ‘guidelines.’  Do I sense a trend here in the world of social computing practices?  Yes.  Is this something your organization should be considering?  Yes. This goes beyond affirming your culture and leadership to conveying best practices for effective communications.  I suggest you give both a good read.     

IBM Social Computing Guidelines

Three years after we released our Blogging Guidelines, and once again created through IBM employee blog and wiki collaboration, the new IBM Social Computing Guidelines have just been published.  As participation in social platforms has grown by IBMers, both inside the company and out, it became clear that having disconnected Blogging Guidelines, Podcasting Guidelines, Wiki Guidelines etc. was no longer an effective way to share best practices.  These all needed to be pulled together into one document covering all of the current, and hopefully some future, platform publishing practices.  Self publishing is simply that, self publishing.  It made sense to consolidate.

This was a fantastic collaborative effort and the result is, in my mind, a reflection of some forward thinking. IBMers are on Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc, and are on a wide variety of internal tools as well, publishing at rapid pace.  Having a clear and understandable set of guidelines will only help us all to understand this new freedom as we connect with the world.  My thanks to all involved in the creation of this new document.