Electronic Frontier Foundation How to Blog Safely about Work http://www.eff.org/wp/blog-safely

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation http://www.insidethecbc.com/bloggingrules interesting because this version caused World War III

Opera http://my.opera.com/community/blogs/corp-policy/

Harvard Law School Blogs Terms of Use  http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/terms-of-use/

Sun Guidelines on Public Discourse http://www.sun.com/communities/guidelines.jsp (original from 2005 elsewhere) Also http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/blogs/BloggingGuidelines.pdf

GM Motors Blogging Policies http://fastlane.gmblogs.com/about.html

Media companies: For Journalists entering into public debate http://rhetorica.net/policy.htm

IOC Olympic Athletes Blogging Policy http://multimedia.olympic.org/pdf/en_report_1296.pdf (PDF)

BBC Staff Editorial Guidelines Personal use of Social Networking and other third party websites  http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/editorialguidelines/advice/personalweb/blogging.shtml

Cisco’s Internet Postings Policy http://blogs.cisco.com/news/comments/ciscos_internet_postings_policy/

IBM’s Social Computing Guidelines  http://www.ibm.com/blogs/zz/en/guidelines.html

Dell’s Online Communication Policy http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/policy/en/policy?c=us&l=en&s=corp&~section=019

Yahoo’s Personal Blog Guidelines for staff http://jeremy.zawodny.com/yahoo/yahoo-blog-guidelines.pdf

Intel Social Media Guidelines http://www.intel.com/sites/sitewide/en_US/social-media.htm

Greteman Group Blog Social Media Policy http://gretemangroup.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/social-media-policy/

With the whole ESPN rules of social media for employees storm in a teacup, it’s worth looking at what other institutions have already implemented in terms of a less Dickensian social media policy.