
Rules of Engagement
The “Project Management 101 Blog” site, otherwise known as “PM101 Blog” site, strictly adheres to the guidelines which follow. These guidelines are non negotiable. In no way shall these guidelines be construed as being biased toward any one group of people or entity posting to this blog.
According to The New York Times, Tim O'Reilly and others based their preliminary list of guidelines on one developed by the BlogHer women's blogging support network and, working with others, came up with a list of seven proposed ideas, which for this Blog site are invoked as follows:
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The Content Owner of the Project Management 101 Blog site takes full responsibility for what Is posted to the Blog site, as well as comments allowed on this blog. Said review and approval to be initiated within 48 hours from time of post.
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Abusive comments will not be allowed to be posted or tolerated at the sole discretion of the Content Owner of the Project Management 101 Blog site. Said review and approval to be initiated within 48 hours from time of post.
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Anonymous comments will be eliminated from the blog site within 24 hours of being posted, no exceptions.
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Comments shall not be abusive which in turn drives new blogs of a critical nature.
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The Content Owner of the Project Management 101 Blog sitewill endeavor to take the conversation offline, and talk directly to the Blogger, or find an intermediary, for blog comments found to be inciteful, abusive, etc. as determined at the sole discretion of the Content Owner of the Project Management 101 Blog site.
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Those individuals, who continuously post negative or abusive blogs, will be asked to cease blogging on this site.
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As a general rule, the Content Owner of the Project Management 101 Blog site perform one test for all incoming blogs is to consider whether the Blogger would say the same thing in person and if the blog adheres to the six other guidelines.
By entering the Project Management 101 Blog site you agree to strictly adhere to the guidelines presented above. Any disagreement arising from a comment placed by an outside source will be resolved by the Content Owner of the Project Management 101 Blog site only without input or clarifications from the Blogger. Any decision made by the Blog site team shall be considered final with no future follow-up being required. Arbitration will not be used to resolve any disputes between the Content Owner of the Blog site and those visiting/posting the Project Management 101 Blog site.
REFERENCES
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^ O'Reilly, Tim (March 3, 2007). "Call for a Blogger's Code of Conduct". O'Reilly Radar. Archived from the original on 2007-04-09. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
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^ "Call for blogging code of conduct". BBC News. March 28, 2007. Retrieved April 14, 2007.
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^ Acharya, Ujjwal (July 27, 2011). "Historic: Bloggers sign Code of Ethics". The Radiant Star. Archived from the original on January 3, 2014. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
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^ Jump up to:a b Stone, Brad (April 9, 2007). "A Call for Manners in the World of Nasty Blogs". The New York Times.(registration required)
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^ Kopytoff, Verne (April 10, 2007). "Bloggers disinclined toward suggestion of Net civility / Proposed code of conduct stirs up a hornet's nest online". San Francisco Chronicle.
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^ Brown, Bruce C. (2008). The Secret Power of Blogging. Atlantic Publishing Company. p. 56. ISBN 9781601380098.
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^ Arrington, Michael (April 9, 2007). "My Thoughts On O'Reilly's Code of Conduct". CrunchNotes. Archived from the original on November 15, 2012. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
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^ Winer, Dave (April 9, 2007). "O'Reilly's code of conduct". Scripting.com.
External links
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"Draft Blogger's Code of Conduct" by Tim O'Reilly
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"Code of Conduct: Lessons Learned So Far" by Tim O'Reilly