Book description
How to Avoid Legal Pitfalls on Social Media
Social media is where your customers are--so it's where your business has to be. Unfortunately, this space is packed with land mines that can obliterate your hard-earned success in the time it takes to click a mouse. Written in easy-to-understand, accessible language, Social Media Law for Business reveals your legal rights and responsibilities in the fast-moving and ever-changing social media landscape. Learn how to:
Create a social media policy for your business * Recruit, hire, and fire through social media * Share content without getting sued * Blog and run contests * Draft disclosure requirements in digital advertising
"Glen Gilmore stands alone as the authority on social media law. Social Media Law for Business should become a ready reference for business leaders and digital marketers." -- MARK SCHAEFER, bestselling author of Return on Influence
"Required reading not only in the classroom, but also in the boardroom--and in any business where people care about getting social media marketing right." -- PETER METHOT, managing director of executive education at Rutgers Business School
"A layperson's blueprint for minimizing the legal risks of social media marketing, while maximizing the opportunities for digital marketing success." -- AMY HOWELL, founder of Howell Marketing Strategies and coauthor of Women in High Gear
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 How to Write a Social Media Policy … Without Stepping on Legal Land Mines
- 2 Social (and Mobile) Recruiting, Hiring, and Firing: Legal Issues You Need to Know
- 3 Copyright, Trademark, and Fair Use: How to Share Content on Social Networks Without Getting Sued … or Losing Your Social Media Accounts
- 4 Marketing in Social Media: What You Need to Know
- 5 How to Make Required Disclosures in Digital Advertising
- 6 How to Run a Social Media “Contest” Without Losing the Prize
- 7 Thou Shalt Not Spam (on Social Networks)
- 8 A Word About (Mobile) Apps
- 9 Legal Issues for Blogs and Bloggers
- 10 “Business to Government”: Social Media Best Practices for Large Organizations and Social Compliance in Government
- 11 Digital Legacy (Who Gets Your Twitter and Other Digital Accounts When You Quit Your Job or When You Die)
- 12 Going Global: International Social Media Law
- 13 Nike: A Lesson in International Social Media Nondisclosure
- 14 Best Practices for Compliant Social Media: Case Studies
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Product information
- Title: Social Media Law for Business: A Practical Guide for Using Facebook, Twitter, Google +, and Blogs Without Stepping on Legal Land Mines
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2014
- Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill
- ISBN: 9780071799614
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