qLegal Workshop: The Social Media Conversation – Keeping it Legal

29 November 2016

Time: 6:30 - 8:00pm
Venue: Paddington Library, 45 Porchester Road, London W2 5DU

This workshop is presented by qLegal and organised by the Westminster Libraries Business Information Points.

Do you have a website or social media platform that you are already using to engage customers or start a conversation?

Social media is interactive and provides the ability to interact with others, to market and promote services and keep up with popular trends. The question is how to keep this conversation legal?

Outline of opportunities for use of social media and highlighting potential pitfalls in use of social media

• Employees and companies – need to maintain consistent voice
• Necessity to take responsibility for content of own website
• Ensure ownership of content if you are a user.

Alerting to potential for criminal activity in the use of social media

• Abuse – anonymous, quick and easy, access to wide variety of opinions worldwide, difficult to trace and prosecute
• Trolling/cyber bullying/freedom of speech – where to draw the line?
• Recent prosecutions for Tweets.

Directions

For directions to the venue, please refer to the map.

Contact

For more information, please contact Clemence Tanzi on c.tanzi@qmul.ac.uk.

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Photography, video and audio recording

Please note that CCLS events may be photographed or video and audio recorded. These materials will be used for internal and external promotional purposes only by Queen Mary University of London. If you object to appearing in the photographs, please let our photographer know on the day. Alternatively you can email Clemence Tanzi on c.tanzi@qmul.ac.uk in advance of the event that you are attending.