Section: Administrative
Policy Number: 1-25
Policy Name: Policy for Job-related Employee Use of Social Media
Date: October 23, 2008;
Revisions: April 10, 2009

  1. Purpose

    Online communities and social media represent potentially valuable resources for University of Delaware faculty and staff in performing their job duties. University employees are encouraged, when appropriate, to take advantage of the wide variety of social media tools available to them.

  2. POLICY

    As is true in other, traditional media, when participating in online communities and social media as part of their job duties, employees must comply with university policies and guidelines. These include, but are not necessarily limited to:


    Policy 1-14: Policy for Responsible Computing at the University of Delaware

    Policy 1-15: Information Security Policy

    Policy 1-16: Employee Use of Computing Resources for Home Pages

    Policy 1-18: Electronic Mail Management and Retention Policy

    Policy 1-19: Employees' Use of E-Communications Policy

    Policy 1-20: Policy for Wireless Computing at the University of Delaware

    Policy 1-21:Use of University-Wide Electronic Mailing Lists

Submitted by: Office of Communications & Marketing