Carl Haggerty’s presentation at PSFBuzz North East

July 9, 2009 by Ian Cuddy 

Not too long ago a PSF survey found large numbers of councils were routinely preventing staff from accessing blogs and sites like YouTube or commenting on websites. while other authorities took a dangerously laissez-faire approach. One of the major challenges which social media presents to councils, and brought to the surface at our first PSFBuzz conference, was the need to establish policies and guidelines for council staff on what they do online, inside and outside of the workplace - and ones that are coherent.

This was the topic tackled by Carl Haggerty, Enterprise Architect at Devon County Council, final speaker of the morning session. In his presentation, Carl underlined that instead of banning staff from accessing Web 2.0 sites, councils should be consulting with them on developing policies on internet use. He discussed the development of Devon CC’s own policy, which has secured senior management buy-in to the extent that the Council’s Chief Executive has become the social networking champion. He’s also very kindly provided us with a copy of the guidelines which other councils are free to tinker about with to their heart’s content.

Unlocking Access and Developing a Web 2.0 Usage Policy

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