A collection of policies from other institutions concerning the use of outsourced I.T. resources:

• Developing A Sustainable Approach to the Use of Web 2.0:

• Bristol University policy on social networking, blogging and web publishing:
  

Social Networks: Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities. Amy Jo Kim. Peachpit Press, 2000 ISBN: 0201874849. http://www.naima.com/community/index.html

1. Does the community have a clear purpose?
2. Does the community have distinct, extensible gathering places?
3. Does the community have profiles that evolve over time?
4. Does the community promote effective leadership?
5. Does the community have a clear-yet-flexible code of conduct?
6. Does the community organize and promote cyclic events?
7. Does the community provide a range of roles with increasing involvement (i.e. visitor, new member, regular, leader, owner)?
8. Does the community support member-created sub-groups?
9. Does the community integrate what's online with the real world?

• University of Edinburgh guidelines for using external services