Following the release of the UK Civil Service guidelines for online participation, I thought it timely to pull together a list of the top five (in no particular order) corporate guidelines or policy documents that we have found available on the web.  If you are aware of others please add to the list via comments.  The more the merrier!

So much similarity and thankfully based on good old common sense - raises the question:

How close are we to creating and agreeing on some *best-practice* guidelines?

1. UK Civil Service Guidelines - published June 2008
2. IBM Social Computing Guidelines
3. Sun Guidelines on Public Discourse
4. BBC Editorial Guidelines (Personal Use of Social Networking and Other 3rd Party Websites)
5. Cisco’s Internet Posting Policy

Notes

see also: Blogging policy examples - Charlene Li, Scout - Guidelines for Blogging and Forums, Corporate Blogging Wiki - Charlene Li