‘No, you can’t be friends with the weather presenter’ – the BBC’s policy on Facebook
January 16th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Broadcasting, Social media and blogging
It’s a post from November 2008, but Journalism.co.uk just spotted this, via the BBC Internet Blog picks. The Shed blog reports that the BBC has an official policy on staff social networking.
When The Shed added Nazaneen Ghaffar as a friend on Facebook it received this e-mail from Andy Smith at the BBC:
“Unfortunately the BBC do not allow Nazaneen to accept friend requests. As an alternative a facebook fan group has been created.”
Tags: Andy Smith, BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation, Facebook, Internet Blog picks, Journalism.co.uk, Nazaneen Ghaffar, staff social networking, the shed, When The Shed
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January 19th, 2009 at 9:28 am
That’s weird – whats next – forbidding emails?
May 15th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
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