Village Internet/Facebook policies

two resolutions on are the Village agenda this evening:

Facebook Posting Policy (re: Village FB page(s) and posters)
looks like this will be monitored by users via an outsourced company
http://forestpark.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=2&event_id=6&meta_id=570

Internet and Social Networking Policy (for village employees, officers, officials, etc.)
looks like this will be enforced by the Village Mayor
http://forestpark.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=2&event_id=6&meta_id=572

i know we just had the PIPA/SOPA confrontation and no one wants their intellectual property stolen, but does anyone have knowledge of how these work w/in a muni?

My understanding is we have already paid this company, the Buy FP that the village paid 14,000 for.

piehead wrote: So will it still be okay (seeing as the mayor approves EVERYTHING; can you say micro-manager) for the mayor to post links to anonymous blogs that slam people in the village? Links to anonymous blogs praising an editorial about how the person hates anonymous message boards. Seems a bit hypocritical, eh? But we all now the mayor only likes things his way or you are the enemy!

Chicago State Univ. policy "absurd"

"The publicly funded Chicago State University has instructed its faculty and staff that only authorized university representatives can share information with the media and that everything from opinion pieces to social media communications could require prior approval.

Employees who violate the new policy could lose their jobs, according to a copy of the rules obtained by the Tribune.

In an email sent March 22 to faculty and staff, Sabrina Land, the university’s director of marketing and communications, wrote that all communications must be “strategically deployed” in a way that “safeguards the reputation, work product and ultimately, the students, of CSU.”

“Frankly, this policy is an obscenity and absurdity and is not tolerable,” said Cary Nelson, president of the American Association of University Professors.