The Company

THIKA Venture Consulting is committed to research, business intelligence, and the effects social media and disruptive technologies have on business and marketing – a social media, marketing and public relations specialist based in Malta representing brands worldwide. The role of THIKA Venture Consulting is to work closely with organizations to identify market trends, research social data intelligence and emerging business opportunities, ultimately to increase brand awareness and gain market share. Our mission is to provide our clients with measurable results through individually designed strategies.

THIKA Venture Consulting takes pride in understanding the client’s expectations, excelling at product promotion through social media. This method of promotion highlights organisations’ activities and places up-and-coming companies on the map of their business world whilst helping to maintain the position of long established entities. This is the speciality of THIKA Venture Consulting. 

Social Media Strategy formulates processes and content that drives creation and delivery of digital content that are both useful to and usable by an organization’s social media community. Every individual organisation has its unique culture, business and its social media community perception, which requires a comprehensive strategy specifically tailored to create and shape content that incorporates influential elements to increase brand awareness. We create and execute a workflow of electronic publications, set up teams, technology, mechanisms, goals, analytics, and audience with the main focus to enable business objectives and priorities in Social Media environment.

Through experience, THIKA Venture Consulting has learned that providing content tailored to specific needs of our clients is a great challenge that we overcome by formulating strategies and advisory programmes. These guide organizations through processes that lead to transformation in embracing Social Media as a medium to communicate and to market their services/products and increase brand awareness.

We focus to understand our client’s strategic business goals and design a social media implementation strategy in order to bring together employees, departments and stakeholders into a collective initiative to align Business Vision and Social Media Strategies to effectively reach business objectives.

At THIKA Venture Consulting (the Organisation), we are well aware of how online social computing platforms—all sorts of social media—are transforming the way we interact. Online collaboration enables people to share knowledge and ideas regardless of rank, title or experience. It’s a way for us to take part in conversations around the work we do at THIKA Venture Consulting and show our expertise in these areas.

These guidelines have been developed for all members of THIKA Venture Consulting to follow whenever contributing to online social computing platforms where there are references to or a potential impact on our organisation.

Think before you post

Keep in mind that most online social computing platforms are like public marketplaces—what’s out there is available for all to see. On social platforms, the boundaries of professional and personal information are not always very clear. In these days of shifting privacy policies and powerful search engine indexing, you can’t always be sure what is being shared, viewed or archived. Note that what you publish online will be public for a very long time. What you post will reflect on you, so be consistent with the way you would wish to portray yourself to friends, family, colleagues and clients.

If you are unsure whether certain content is appropriate to share online, then don’t post it. It’s better to be safe than sorry.

Responsibility

You are personally responsible for your words and actions, no matter where you are, even in the online world. Please remember that when you participate in social media, you are speaking as an individual and not on behalf of the Organisation. Identify yourself using the first person singular.

When you discuss Organisation-related information online, be transparent by giving your name and role and mentioning that you work for the Organisation. If you have an individual site that refers to or has an impact on the Organisation, use a disclaimer such as “The views expressed on this site are my own and not those of THIKA Venture Consulting.”

Where applicable law permits, know that the Organisation reserves the right to monitor use of social platforms and take appropriate action to protect against misuse that may be harmful to the Organisation’s reputation.

Establishing an Organisation account or becoming an official Organisation representative that shares information about the Organisation and the areas we work in, requires approval from Organisation or local Marketing & Communications teams. Only these accounts may display the company logo. If you would like to represent THIKA Venture Consulting or create an Organisation account, please contact your local Marketing and Communications team or the Organisation’s social media team. If a member of the press or online media contacts you about online content concerning THIKA Venture Consulting, please refer them to the Organisation’s social media team, or PR manager.

Conduct

Your behavior online should be consistent with Our Code of Business Ethics.

You have the opportunity to help shape the Organisation’s reputation online. Use your expert knowledge to enrich discussions, help solve problems, share the excitement of our work environment, and promote learning and idea-sharing.

Please bear in mind that the tone you use online can be interpreted in different ways by your readers, due to a lack of non-verbal communication or cultural differences. Some participants may not be familiar with abbreviations, emoticons and other common codes used in online communication. Remember also that comments are often taken out of context, so stick to the facts.

Trust is the key element in building relationships online. Build trust by keeping a respectful tone, even when disagreeing with others, and by responding to comments in a timely manner. If you realize that you’ve make a mistake, try to correct it promptly.

Do not engage in any conduct online that would not be acceptable in your workplace or that is unlawful. For example, do not make derogatory remarks, bully, intimidate, harass other users, use insults or post content that is hateful, slanderous, threatening, discriminating or pornographic.

Confidentiality

Always protect clients’, the Organisation’s and suppliers’ confidential and other proprietary information. Don’t put anything online you wouldn’t share with a journalist, client, analyst or competitor.

Make sure any reference to clients, partners and suppliers does not violate any non-disclosure obligations. Please also remember your confidentiality obligations under your employment agreement.

Don’t disclose information about colleagues or other persons, misuse their personal data, or publish their photos without their permission.

Users should still use good judgment regarding information that could be of a sensitive nature. Don’t use social computing platforms to exchange information that is client, Organisation or supplier confidential, unless access is restricted to a tightly controlled closed community with each participant having been cleared for receipt of such information, and the platform has been cleared for appropriate security levels. Public sites are not appropriate sites for internal communication with other Organisation’s employees.

Copyrights

Comply with laws and regulations and more particularly with laws governing intellectual property rights, including copyrights and trademarks.
You must not post content or take any action that violates the law or infringes Organisation’s or any third party’s intellectual property rights.

Final thoughts

Use of social computing platforms in accordance with this policy can be a very effective and powerful communication tool. Be proud of what you do and enjoy a sense of accomplishment in the search for better quality and greater efficiency. Above all, please use good judgment, be attentive to others and take the trouble to listen and be understood.

This page outlines the privacy notices, terms of use, and disclaimer for all social media/real-time websites run by Dr Alban Gj. THIKA and THIKA Venture Consulting Social Media Team (SM_Team_THIKA) – including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, G+ and all other social media sites, including those containing in url ‘albanthika’.

CONTENT

All images and videos on Dr Alban’s social media sites, which are original works of Dr. Alban, are subject to the Copyright Act. 2000 and should not be used without permission from the copyright holder/s.

All content is provided for the entertainment and to better understand the demographics of our audience. Dr Alban Gj. THIKA and SM_Team_THIKA do not necessarily endorse, support, sanction, encourage, verify or agree with any comments, opinions or statements or other content provided by our audience.

Facebook:

The Dr Alban Gj. THIKA (ATH) Facebook pages are managed by the digital communications team in Dr. Alban’s Office.

Comments posted on and messages received through Facebook page/s are the views of individuals and do not necessarily represent the views of Dr Alban Gj. THIKA.

Facebook Moderation Policy:

We look forward to receiving your comments and participation in the discussions on this page and would like to publish as many as possible. However we do ask that our followers adhere to certain good practices and conventions of polite and constructive dialogue.

Dr Alban’s Facebook page/s are reactively moderated, and we cannot accept responsibility for the content of any comment.

We reserve the right to remove comments that:

• Contain abusive, obscene, indecent or offensive language, or link to obscene or offensive material.
• Contain swear words or other sorts of profanity.
• Are completely removed from the topic of conversation or are non-relevant to the item posted on the wall.
• Contain abusive language towards an individual involved in the thread, other organisations or the page administrator.
• Constitute spam or promote or advertise products, except where it is for an event, publication or similar item that has direct relevance to the subject of discussion.
• Information about locating and sharing knowledge and expertise is welcomed, but within the specific discussion provided.
• Are designed to cause nuisance to the page administrator or other users.

For serious and/or persistent breaches of the moderation policy, we reserve the right to prevent users from posting further comments.

The Social Media channels of Dr Alban Gj. THIKA are updated by Dr Alban or by SM_Team_THIKA.

Social Media Team of THIKA Venture Consulting (SM_Team_THIKA):

Does not control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness or completeness of information contained on a linked website.

Does not endorse the organizations sponsoring linked websites or the views they express or the products/services they offer.

Cannot and does not authorize the use of copyrighted materials contained in linked websites. Users must request such authorization from the sponsor of the linked website.

User Generated Content:

Users are here notified that they are fully responsible for the content they load on any of the Dr Alban’s social media sites. The user is responsible for all copyright and intellectual property laws associated with this content.

 Please contact us for further information:

T. +356 355 00 121

E. contact@albanthika.com

Communications sent to or through electronic mail systems may be monitored or recorded to secure effective system operation and for other lawful purposes.

The information contained in this message and in any attachment is to be treated as confidential and the information in it may not be used or disclosed except for the purpose for which it has been sent. It is only intended for the recipient or recipients to whom it is addressed. If you have reason to believe that you are not the intended recipient of this communication and have received this message in error, please delete it and any attachment and all copies of it and of any such attachment from your system immediately, destroy any paper copies and contact the sender immediately.

While all reasonable precautions are taken, no guarantees or warranties can be given that this E-mail is 100% free of errors, viruses, interception or interference therewith and DrAlban Gj. THIKA cannot be held liable for any loss or damages incurred by the recipient which have been caused by any of the mentioned factors.

Dr Alban Gj. THIKA does not take any responsibility for, or endorses any information which does not relate to his business activities, including personal mail and/or opinions by the sender. Any views or opinions presented in this E-mail are solely those of the author.

Dr Alban Gj. THIKA will take legal steps against any unauthorized use of the information contained in this E-mail.