If you fail to disclose certain information on a corporate website, or from a corporate e-mail address, in the United Kingdom, you could be fined. Companies in the UK who do not contain regulatory information on their websites and in their e-mail footers (as of January 1, 2007) are in breach of that country’s Companies Act and risk a fine.

Whether or not your organization is in a jurisdiction that has to comply with such legislation the message is clear: with power comes great responsibility. Corporate web and intranet managers need to act responsibly with their content, and act accordingly. If they don’t already exist (or if not in the proper form), the responsibility begins with well developed and promoted policy including:

Read my full article (Ir)responsible content (on Ragan's new Content Matters blog, of which I am one of the co-authors).

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Intranet Report Podcast -- March 15, 2007

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