After having set up a set of guidelines for staff in an organisation who want to self-publish, David's discussion around student bloggers is leading to the team quickly getting around the student guidelines and possibly a policy, too. Why a policy and guidelines? Guidelines are OK for staff, insofar as most of their employment contract will cover the big misdemeanours they could commit (libel, lies and videotape ;-) But kids don't have a contract like that and their email-internet acceptable use policy just doesn't cover all the grey bits of self-publishing and the attention that brings to a blogger.
So while guidelines are liberal enough and at the same time can keep the managers happy when it comes to their employees, kids need something a bit more explicit so that they know the boundaries before they make any huge mistakes.
The staff guidelines will soon be made available for all to plunder - promise ;-)
I look forward to these Ewan.
You know, think I must be becoming an old fuddy-duddy, because the phrase "a discussion around..." annoys me :) Why not "a discussion about..."? It's not you Ewan - the phrase seems to be widely used these days - but I'm with John Humphrys on this one ;)
Posted by: Robert Jones | November 08, 2006 at 10:36 PM