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<\/a>By the end of the academic year the university plans to have documented guidelines and recommendations, but not rules, for social media use.<\/p>\n
TRU currently monitors social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, and sometimes Instagram.<\/p>\n
The social media page on TRU\u2019s website states \u201cour goal is to provide a community where people feel encouraged to share content and ideas in a respectful environment, and we reserve the right to remove posts that we feel undermine this goal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Associate vice president of marketing and communications Lucille Gnanasihamany began the initiative to form a more documented social media policy when she arrived at TRU last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile we don\u2019t have any control over personal sites, certainly with any of the channels that are affiliated with TRU we do ask people to conduct themselves in a fair manner,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the University of BC\u2019s social media guidelines state that inappropriate use of official or personal social media platforms is cause for disciplinary action.<\/p>\n
The guidelines outline conduct for faculty use, personal use, and official channel use. They say to never post anything you wouldn\u2019t share in a classroom, avoid posting anything that could reflect poorly on your colleagues, and don\u2019t represent your personal views as those of the university.<\/p>\n
\u201cCodes of conduct and the expectations of respectful behavior at the university absolutely apply online,\u201d says TRU\u2019s director of innovation Brian Lamb, adding that if it\u2019s a question of inappropriate online conduct, a social media policy isn\u2019t necessarily required to reprimand a user because it\u2019s a behaviour issue.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s all overlapping circles and a lot of this does fall under conduct, and I think conduct has many arenas,\u201d says Gnanasihamany. \u201cIt could be an in-person conversation or an online conversation, but we monitor and we reserve the right to remind people when we feel they have crossed the line.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thompson Rivers University (TRU) in Kamloops, BC is working on creating a policy to outline appropriate online conduct for users associated with the postsecondary institution. The social media committee, coordinated by TRU\u2019s marketing and communications office, first met in April to begin a formal discussion about social media use within the TRU community. By the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-november-13-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t