Online communities and social media

Online communities are websites that enable people who share a common interest to interact with each other. We use some online communities such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube to communicate with local residents and businesses.

Twitter

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Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging 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.

Coventry City Council 'tweets' a few times a day about news and events. You can follow us at:

www.twitter.com/coventrycc (external website, opens in a new window)

Facebook

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

Coventry City Council uses Facebook to raise awareness of campaigns and consultations.

Flickr

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Flickr is a free online photo management and sharing application.

Coventry City Council uses Flickr to share photos of Coventry.

Coventry City Council's Flickr page (external website, opens in a new window)

YouTube

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YouTube is a free online video sharing application.

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

Coventry City Council's YouTube channel (external website, opens in a new window)

Friendfeed

Friendfeed aggregates and consolidates the updates from social websites.

Coventry City Council uses Friendfeed to show updates in Twitter, Flickr and YouTube.

Coventry City Council's Friendfeed page (external website, opens in a new window)

Safety

Please exercise safe surfing guidelines when using the Internet and Facebook.

The presence of any advertisement on online communities is not an endorsement of the authenticity or quality of the goods, services or website and Coventry City Council will not be held responsible for any claims arising in that respect.

Rules and guidelines

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.

Contact details

Web Editors
Web Services Team
Room 21a
Council House
Earl Street
CV1 5RR

E-mail: webeditors@coventry.gov.uk