Standards/Social Media/Membership

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Standard: Membership

Purpose

Basic requirements for membership in the Social Media Team, and procedures to follow when adding or removing members.

Membership requirements

• Members should be familiar with Pirate Party Australia policies, and be Associate or Full members of the Party.
• Members should have a working knowledge of social media platforms.
  • The Pirate Party Facebook, Google+, and Twitter accounts are accessed through members' personal accounts. Members should make sure their accounts are secure by using unique passwords, never sharing their login with others, and setting up two-factor authentication. Instructions on setting this up: Twitter Facebook Google
• Members should be accessible through IRC (#ppau-socmed) while they are actively posting on Pirate Party accounts.
  • If you are unable to access IRC while posting (for example, livetweeting an event) give a heads-up to the Social Media Officer.

Adding a member

• The Social Media Officer may add members to the Team at their discretion, but must notify the National Council via email when doing so.

Removing a member

• The National Council may remove members of the Social Media Team by majority vote.
• The Social Media Officer may also suspend a member of the Team prior to expulsion being consented to at the next National Council meeting.
• Suspension and expulsion must be on reasonable grounds such as contravention of Social Media standards or other applicable guidelines.
• Members resigning from the Social Media Team should notify the Social Media Officer.

Regional social media accounts

• Regional accounts are under the authority of their Coordinators, who may delegate social media management to members as they see fit. They do not need to be members of the Social Media Team.