Communicating via Social Media

Twitter is a free social networking service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.

Cannock Chase Council 'tweets' a few times a day about news and events.

Follow us on Twitter

Facebook is a free social networking website. users can join networks by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people.

Cannock Chase Council uses Facebook to raise awareness of campaigns and consultations.

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Flickr is a free online photo management and sharing application.

Cannock Chase Council uses Flickr to share photos taken within Cannock Chase District.

View us on Flickr

YouTube is a free online videa sharing application.

Cannock Chase Council uses YouTube to share videos about the work it does, its people and its events.

View our YouTube channel

Most online communities have their own rules and guidelines, which we will always follow. We reserve the right to remove any contributions that break the rules or guidelines of the relevant community, or any of the following:

• Be civil, tasteful and relevant.
• Do not post messages that are unlawful, libellous, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented or racially offensive.
• Do not swear.
• Do not post content copied from elsewhere, for which you do not own the copyright.
• Do not post the same message, or very similar messages, more than once (also called "spamming").
• Do not publicise your, or anyone else's, personal information, such as contact details.
• Do not advertise products or services.
• Do not impersonate someone else.

Libel

Please take care not to make libellous statements. In law this means a statement that lowers the reputation of a person or organisation in the eyes of a reasonable person. By publishing such a statement we can both get into serious trouble. We will therefore take down any statement that could be deemed to be libellous.

Purdah

In the six week run up to an election - local, general or European - councils have to very careful not to do or say anything that could seen in any way to support any political party or candidate. The period is known as purdah. We will continue to publish important service announcements using social media but may have to remove responses if they are overtly party political.