<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">There's something I want to clarify here regarding the recording. There was nothing 'secret' intended by it; the recording was taken by my request, and not for nefarious purposes. I had wanted very badly to be at the meeting, but was ill and knew two people with immune-compromised spouses would be attending. Rather than get the he-said she-said version of what was being said, I asked for someone to record it so I could hear -exactly- what was said. This is a good thing, as there are at least two things I've been told about the meeting that were mis-remembered. It's obvious that there is some kind of suspicion that the intent behind it was malicious, but I honestly feel most people handled themselves with dignity -- and you, Susan, especially.<div><br></div><div>I sincerely apologize if there was any offence taken by it. It was a public, open door meeting, and so I didn't think it would be a problem.</div><div><br></div><div>As for Facebook, there are two separate situations -- people ranting on their private walls is one thing, but on the public, official site is quite another. Society and Kingdom has finally released a social media policy allowing us to use Facebook officially, but only with very specific guidelines. These guidelines require a moderator, and forbid discourteous behavior or personal attacks. For anyone interested, who hasn't read it yet (what do you mean, you aren't all on the webminister's email list/aren't psychic?), I've included the message below.</div><div><br></div><div>Again, I apologize if my request for the recording has caused hurt feelings. I just really wanted to be there to hear all you had to say.</div><div><br></div><div>~ Danielle/Cunegonda</div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Today, January 26, 2013, the Board of Directors met in the Kingdom of<br>Atenveldt, a vote was taken on a policy that several of us in this Kingdom<br>sent input to. It was a success! :)<br><br>Re-posting from the Society FB page:<br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/currentmiddleages">https://www.facebook.com/currentmiddleages</a><br><br>Greetings all from Lord Tobias Morgan, Deputy Society Seneschal for Social<br>Media. As you may have heard, the new Social Media Policy was approved at<br>today's Board meeting. We will be publishing it online this week and I will<br>personally be in contact with the Kingdom Seneschals and Webministers to<br>directly distribute a copy, along with recommendations for implementation<br>and where to go from here for them and their branch officers. I will post a<br>subsequent notice when it is available for public download (please hold off<br>on personal requests for the SMP, and if you're a branch officer, give your<br>kingdom time to get it sent down to you).<br><br>Later this week, once the policy has been out for a few days and people have<br>time to digest it, I will host a Q&A session for people to ask questions and<br>get advice on how to use social media for their branches and events.<br><br>More than anything else, the message I want to put out about SCA Social<br>Media is this: we WANT you to use it, but we want you to use it responsibly.<br>The policy gives you the tools to do that. If you have any questions<br>(besides hey social dude, gimme my copy now!), feel free to contact me at<br><a href="mailto:socialmedia@sca.org">socialmedia@sca.org</a>, message me here on Facebook, or tweet me @SCAsocial.<br><br>Thank you to everyone who provided work, commentary, and editing on the<br>policy over the past year.<br><br>Lord Tobias Morgan<br>Deputy Society Seneschal for Social Media<br>Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA)<br><br>Baronessa Chiara Francesca Arianna d'Onofrio<br>An Tir Kingdom Webminister<br></div></body></html>