Friday, June 29, 2012
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Blog Etiquette
We all know picking your nose in public is considered bad manners (at least, we hope we all know). But did you know that there are also rules for behaving well in the blogging world?
Take responsibility for your own words. Be mindful of what you say, both on your blog and on blogs where you leave comments. Don’t say anything online that you wouldn’t say in person.
Show respect for other commenters, avoid foul language, be polite. What may seem like sarcastic humor can read very differently when written as a comment.
Respond to comments. If someone takes the time to read your blog and leave a comment, you should take the time to respond to that comment. This is good manners and it creates a conversation.
Use punctuation and spell-check. You’ll lose readers fast if you have a lot of grammar and spelling errors. It looks unprofessional and sloppy.
Respond to comments. If someone takes the time to read your blog and leave a comment, you should take the time to respond to that comment. This is good manners and it creates a conversation.
Use punctuation and spell-check. You’ll lose readers fast if you have a lot of grammar and spelling errors. It looks unprofessional and sloppy.
The problem with those short one line comments is that they rarely add much to the conversation. Plus they often reflect that the person likely only skimmed through the post or read just part of it. In the website marketing world there’s a name for those kinds of comments ‘drive-by comment spam’. The big part that those people are missing out on is the connection with the blogger. If you’re not reading their posts and really interacting in the comments, you’re not getting to know them.
Another rule about appropriate comments is to always make your comments applicable and unique. If three people have already posted saying what you're about to say, please refrain (especially if your comment is nothing more than, "I totally agree!"). In addition, even if you have something REALLY great to tell everyone, don't tell them on a comment forum unless it is applicable to the discussion at hand.
Give credit where credit is due. Don’t steal other people’s photos or content. Try to use your own photos. There are places you can get royalty-free photos, such as Flickr Creative Commons or Wiki Commons. The same goes for content. Don’t plagiarize. Include a link back to the websites where you found information. In that vein, I took most of the content for this post from here, here, and here and edited and added to it to make it applicable for our classroom.
Another rule about appropriate comments is to always make your comments applicable and unique. If three people have already posted saying what you're about to say, please refrain (especially if your comment is nothing more than, "I totally agree!"). In addition, even if you have something REALLY great to tell everyone, don't tell them on a comment forum unless it is applicable to the discussion at hand.
Give credit where credit is due. Don’t steal other people’s photos or content. Try to use your own photos. There are places you can get royalty-free photos, such as Flickr Creative Commons or Wiki Commons. The same goes for content. Don’t plagiarize. Include a link back to the websites where you found information. In that vein, I took most of the content for this post from here, here, and here and edited and added to it to make it applicable for our classroom.
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